You would not tell from her sweet-as-honey voice and gentle lyrics that Laura Mam's family history has been one of pain and struggle. Her parents managed to escape the brutal regime of Cambodia's ...
Scottish-born Gordon Conochie, an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne, has just released his book, “A Tiger Rules the Mountain: Cambodia’s Pursuit of Democracy,” an honest look ...
Not long after 20 years of war finally ended in Vietnam in 1975, another wave of horrendous violence erupted just to the west. The Khmer Rouge, the Communist party of Cambodia, seized control of the ...
Fifty years after the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge rebel army, the events of April 17, 1975 continue to cast a long shadow over Cambodia and its political system. Emerging from the bloodshed ...
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A prominent senior social activist, Khun Chainarong Setthachua, posted on Facebook yesterday asking: "...Why is Thai civil society, NGOs, and social activists relatively quiet about the border war? Or ...
On Friday, Cambodia’s government announced that its Cabinet had approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities carried out by the communist Khmer Rouge in the late ...
At Sunday's Oscars, Ke Huy Quan became the second Asian actor ever to win best supporting actor. Haing S. Ngor won in 1985 for his role in "The Killing Fields," a film about the Cambodian genocide. A ...
Guitars tuned. Mic checked. Get ready to rock! Cambodian Rock Band tells the story of a Khmer Rouge survivor returning to Cambodia for the first time in thirty years, as his daughter prepares to ...
Long Beach is widely recognised as home to the largest Cambodian diaspora outside of Cambodia, making Cambodia Town a deeply ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand launched airstrikes along the disputed border with Cambodia on Monday as both sides accused the other ...