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A lifelong volunteer
Life, Thana Boonlert and Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 30/10/2025
» From the day Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother was crowned in 1950, she was the greatest supporter of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej as his reign began in the same year. The Queen Mother always accompanied His Majesty on royal duties in many provinces across Thailand, near and far.
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".
Sky-high luxe at the Rosewood Phnom Penh
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 05/02/2023
» There is something to be said about countries like Cambodia, which have gone through deep periods of darkness only to emerge from them with grace and the will go on. Covid, be damned or so the busy streets of Phnom Penh would say. And nothing stands in the way of this testament more than the city's first skyscraper, rising 188 metres above the Cambodian capital, where the Rosewood Phnom Penh is housed.
The songs of monarchs
Life, Channeary Nieng, 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.
Cambodia steps up surveillance with new internet gateway
AFP, Published on 14/02/2022
» Cambodia is powering up its new National Internet Gateway, a move activists say will allow the government to further silence the country's embattled opposition voices.
Cambodia aims hybrid digital currency on blockchain at unbanked
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 22/12/2021
» When Cambodia's central bank launched a pilot for a digital payment system in July 2019, its aim was to increase financial inclusion in the country and expand use of the local currency over the US dollar. Then came the coronavirus pandemic.
Cambodian diaspora examined in RCB screening
Life, Published on 04/11/2021
» RCB Film Club will reopen with a screening of In The Life Of Music, a moving and memorable tale from Cambodia, at the RCB Forum, 2nd floor of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, on Saturday Nov 6 at 4pm.
Westerners leave mark on Ayutthaya
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 08/03/2021
» Westerners were prominent in Ayutthaya, the former capital of the kingdom of Siam, in centuries past. They left historical records, architecture, language and cultural links of their contact with Iudea, as it was known at the time. Today they help us understand the area's history and Thailand's policies on international relations.
Cambodia officially launches digital currency backed by central bank
Reuters, Published on 28/10/2020
» Cambodia officially launched on Wednesday a central bank-backed digital currency that draws on blockchain technology designed by a Japanese company.
Connecting cultures
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 23/07/2020
» Have you ever pointed a camera at somebody and seen yourself through the viewfinder? One such moment happened to me over a decade ago while I was visiting a floating village on Siem Reap River, south of its namesake Cambodian city.