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Thai-Cambodian collaboration continues in anniversary year
Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 31/05/2025
» PHNOM PENH - Thailand and Cambodia are expanding collaboration across various sectors, including investment, tourism and culture as they celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties.
Saroj, the consummate diplomat
News, Published on 08/02/2024
» During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, several YouTube clips from the 1950s featuring youngsters from various parts of the world participating in the Foreign Exchange Programme sponsored by the US government became an internet sensation. Many of these clips went viral and received tens of thousands of hits and hundreds of comments.
A journey through Cambodia’s culinary heritage
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 13/11/2023
» Cambodian cuisine may not be as renowned as Thai cuisine but that doesn’t mean it is any less significant.
Travel notes
Life, John Clewley, Published on 23/05/2023
» Cambodia, like many Southeast Asian countries, enjoyed a golden era of popular music during the 1950s and 1960s, when Phnom Penh, known as the "Pearl of the Orient" became an important cultural centre, a breading ground for the meeting of Western rock and pop and Cambodian music. Author Dee Peyok in her fascinating new book Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia (Granta, UK, 2023) notes that "the music of East and West merged across Southeast Asia to the most fascinating mélange of instruments, attitudes and expressionism".
Enter Siem Reap's most secluded, serene and storied gateway, Amansara
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 30/04/2023
» To get away from the hustle and bustle of Bangkok, it is always nice to pop across the border into Cambodia for a luxurious weekend away. And no better place than Siem Reap, a place I’ve been to numerous times and yet never tire of it.
Cambodia leader warns against foreign interference
Published on 06/03/2023
» Cambodian leader Hun Sen said Monday he would not tolerate foreigners who threaten the country's peace, days after the jailing of an opposition figure roused international condemnation.
The songs of monarchs
Life, Published on 19/12/2022
» For famed saxophonist and lecturer Assoc Prof Dr Pathorn Srikaranonda, two recent performances in Phnom Penh were a music mission to remember.
Abode of the gods
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 04/08/2022
» Cicadas sang a chorus as the forest opened out. I peered into the darkness and traced the distant contour of a monumental religious complex, a remarkable feat of human civilisation. Keyed up with my first visit, I crossed a floating bridge, a soon-to-be-dismantled construction, over a large moat in the midst of lush vegetation. Before dawn, I arrived at Angkor Wat.
Time for Biden to build bridges with Hun Sen
Oped, Published on 17/12/2021
» As is widely known, in 1975, the United States abandoned Cambodia's Lon Nol government and the Khmer Rouge took power. What is less known is that at the time then-freshman Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware supported the evacuation of Vietnam and Cambodia. On April 25, 1975, the United States exited Cambodia. Sirik Matak Sisowath, the former Cambodian prime minister who refused to leave and who was killed by the Khmer Rouge days later, famously remarked: "I have only committed the mistake of believing in you [the Americans]."
Former Cambodian PM Prince Norodom Ranariddh dies at 77
Reuters, Published on 28/11/2021
» PHNOM PENH: Former Cambodian Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh has died in France, the Cambodian minister of information said. He was 77.