PHNOM PENH, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Son Meymey, a sixth-grade student at Prek Leap Primary School here in the capital of Cambodia, has always spent her break time reading books at the Lancang-Mekong Book ...

The New Khmer Architecture movement emerged in post-independence, pre-war Cambodia. It was characterized by its consideration of traditional Cambodian culture. Today, architects are trying to preserve ...

Five decades after his prescient wartime exposé of the Khmer Rouge, Ith Sarin resurfaces to shed new light on his life ahead of the publication of a new translation.

The dealer, who died in 2020, had been accused of selling illegally excavated treasures of the Khmer culture. His estate ...

During the Khmer Rouge regime, I was put in prison at the age of 15 for picking mushrooms in the rice fields to feed my pregnant sister. Under the Khmer Rouge, everything belonged to the Revolution — ...

Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Forty years ago on Monday, Vietnamese tanks rolled through Phnom Penh, a city that had been a near ghost town during the Cambodia genocide, to signal the overthrow of the regime ...

It took 30 years of struggle to make the tribunal happen. Now a new battle begins to fairly judge its legacy. The victims of the Khmer Rouge regime spent more than 30 years hoping, waiting, and ...

On the stage of a TV studio in Phnom Penh, Cambodian-American Ly Sivhong is telling an engrossed audience a tragic, but familiar, story. On April 17, 1975 – 40 years ago today – life as Ly knew it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the ...

Figure who ran Cambodia’s most notorious prison during genocidal regime of Pol Pot died on Wednesday The chief jailer of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, known as Comrade Duch, who oversaw the mass ...