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ECONOMY & INVESTMENT
Cambodia's Skuoy Chicken Programme Wins International Award
Cambodia's breeding programme for the indigenous Skuoy chicken has received the 2026 international award from ICRISAT for livestock improvement and production technologies. Funded by Australia and led by a research institute based in Nairobi, it now serves as a model for Laos and Vietnam.
Editorial team
10 hours ago3 min read
Thierry Tea — From Innovation in Aviation to Building the Cambodia of Tomorrow
Interview with Thierry Tea, Co-President of La French Tech Phnom Penh, Vice President of OCIC and CEO of Canadia Impact Fund (CIFC)
La Rédaction
12 hours ago15 min read
Set Hach, a Siem Reap farming leader, honoured by the FAO in Rome
Set Hach dirige une coopérative agricole Set Hach runs an agricultural cooperative in Siem Reap province. On 15 October, in Rome, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) named her one of its first "100 Women Heroes" in agrifood systems and rural development.
Editorial team
12 hours ago2 min read
Could France’s Crisis Disrupt the Francophonie Summit in Phnom Penh?
The 20th Francophonie Summit opens in twenty-eight days. In France, the streets flared again on Saturday and the Limoges town hall burned, the budget has no majority and the presidential election is coming. The summit will go ahead. Emmanuel Macron’s attendance depends on a Paris calendar that nobody controls.
Editorial team
13 hours ago5 min read
TOURISM & HOSPITALITY
Amleang: An idyllic rural getaway with a dark past in Kampong Speu
Known for its seven cascading waterfalls situated nearby rice fields, orange plantations, palm trees and sugar cane forests as far as the...
Voyageuse Passion
7 hours ago3 min read
Cambodia & In Pictures : Club Millésime, the lounge at Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra
The Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra website presents Club Millésime as a lounge reserved for guests staying in Club rooms and suites. We spent an evening there last weekend on a package at a very affordable price. It includes the high tea and the evening buffet. It also lets guests use the lounge's meeting room.
La Rédaction
12 hours ago3 min read
Tourism & Forum : Siem Reap Wants to Exist Beyond Angkor
On 29 September, the Cambodia Branding Forum brought together more than 130 tourism professionals, artisans and artists. The question on the table: how do you keep visitors longer with something other than temples? The answers came out of workshops on active tourism, crafts and places worth living in.
Editorial team
5 days ago6 min read
Cambodia & Interview: Marc Emmanuel, General Manager of Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra
Our friends from EuroCham sat down with Marc Emmanuel, General Manager of Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra, to talk about his return to Cambodia and his vision for one of the country’s most established luxury properties.
Editorial team
6 days ago2 min read
ARTS & CULTURE, SPORTS AND LIFESTYLE
The Khmer Smile: What It Says, and What It Doesn’t
In Cambodia, a smile welcomes, soothes, apologises. It can also hide embarrassment or fatigue. From the faces of the Bayon to Theravāda Buddhism and the wounds of the 20th century, what does this smile, which every visitor talks about, really say?
Editorial team
9 hours ago5 min read
Between Two Shores: Kayla Chea, Khmer Model in American Territory
There is something elusive about Kayla Chea. Not in the vague sense of the word — in the literal one. She describes modeling as an attempt to capture what slips away: an emotion, a posture, an entire identity compressed into the fraction of a second before a shutter clicks. "It's like dancing," she says. The camera is the music, the body finds its shapes, and something true stays inside the frame.
Editorial team
11 hours ago2 min read
Jeanne Cuisinier, the Ethnologist of Indochina and the Khmer Royal Ballet
She earned a diploma in Malay in 1929, then at 42 set out for Kelantan, and later for the Mường of Tonkin. Before those two missions, Jeanne Cuisinier put her name to the revised and expanded edition of one of the standard books on Cambodian royal dance.
Editorial team
12 hours ago4 min read
Photo Phnom Penh 2026: eleven venues, one theme, “At Home in the World”
From October 22 to November 22, Photo Phnom Penh holds its 17th edition under the theme “At Home in the World”. Eleven venues, 28 named artists, 19th-century archives and the first graduates of Studio Images. The festival runs alongside the 20th Francophonie Summit.
Editorial team
12 hours ago11 min read
Cambodia & Cinema: Vichara Dany, the Vanished Star of Khmer Film
She is said to have made more than a hundred films in barely seven years. Then the Khmer Rouge reached Phnom Penh, and Vichara Dany vanished from the screen. To this day, nobody knows for certain how she died.
Editorial team
13 hours ago2 min read
Humour & Chronicle : Cambodia - Bernard Goes Home to France for Two Weeks
Bernard flies to Paris. He promised the whole bar two weeks. The bar has taken precautions.
Editorial team
5 days ago3 min read
HEALTH & BEAUTY
In Cambodia, HIV still infects eight young people every week
In June, the kingdom became the first country in Asia and the Pacific to reach the global HIV treatment targets. Yet almost one in two new infections involves someone aged 15 to 24. And what young people know about the virus is slipping.
Editorial team
Sep 273 min read
Beauty & Kep: Sam Taroth tries Kep West's fruity facial
At the Kep West Wellness Center, the facial starts in the kitchen rather than a jar. Mango for vitamin C, pressed cucumber for the tonic, yogurt, a little lavender. Sam Taroth has already tried yoga and massage here. This time she hands her face to Mao Sophear, the center's Senior Spa Therapist.
Editorial team
Sep 231 min read
Archive & Career: Ky Santy, “Proud of the Quality Medicine We Provide at Kantha Bopha”
Cambodian professor Ky Santy looks back on 27 years at Kantha Bopha, from his hiring by Dr Beat Richner in 1995 to the rise of high-quality paediatric care in Cambodia.
Christophe Gargiulo
Sep 154 min read
Beauty & Siem Reap: Kim Chun and Sra Thnam, Calm for Body and Mind
One day she decided to change course completely. She closed her bar, the Mezze, in Siem Reap and opened a relaxation and care centre in her small village, away from prying eyes and the bustle of the town. Kim Chun is the founder of Sra Thnam, a range of cosmetics and food supplements.
Christophe Gargiulo
Sep 153 min read
RESTAURATION & GASTRONOMY
Malis: Saraman Beef from Cambodia, Slowly Simmered in Coconut Cream
At Malis in Phnom Penh, the saraman beef is cooked very slowly in coconut cream, with a special kroeung and peanuts. It is listed at just 21 dollars on the menu of the Norodom Boulevard restaurant.
Coin gourmand
11 hours ago3 min read
Cambodia & Recipe: Coconut pearls with mung bean cream
Coconut pearls are a dessert made from glutinous rice flour, sometimes with wheat starch or corn flour added.
Coin gourmand
13 hours ago2 min read
Gordon Ramsay Burger Opens in Phnom Penh, a First for Southeast Asia
The British chef is opening his first Gordon Ramsay Burger in Southeast Asia, in Phnom Penh. The restaurant will sit at the top of JS Tower, which will also house the region’s first Planet Hollywood Hotel. JS Group, the developer, announced the project on 14 October. It has not given an opening date.
Editorial team
5 days ago3 min read
KEP & KAMPOT GAZETTE
Julia Higgs shows her drawings on fabric in Kep and draws live to the sound of singing bowls
Australian artist Julia Higgs presents the works made during her Art for Kep residency on Saturday 17 October at Kep West Wellness Center. The exhibition is called “Earth ផែនដី : Water ទឹក។”. It includes a live drawing performance, with Lana Yang on singing bowls. Entry is free.
Editorial team
5 days ago2 min read
Art for Kep puts the Khmer kite in the hands of Kep's children: two full workshops
On Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September, Art for Kep launched a workshop at the Kep West Wellness Center on making the khleng ek, the Khmer musical kite, with the Association for the Conservation and Development of Khmer Kites. Children from the NGOs CEK and Kep Gardens came in numbers and full of enthusiasm: both sessions were full. Every team built its own kite, and one large kite was given to Art for Kep
Editorial team
Sep 281 min read
Knai Bang Chatt: eighteen rooms, 90 percent international compliance, and a seat among the global chains
Platinum certification under the Green Growth 2050 standard requires a score above 90 percent across more than 400 indicators. It is held by a short list of global names: thirty properties in the Minor Hotels group, the St. Regis Bangkok, Niyama in the Maldives. Nearly all belong to groups with sustainability departments and budgets to match.
Editorial team
Sep 131 min read
Star fighter Tharoth Sam finds far more than a place to switch off in Kep
The actress and MMA champion came to the Knai Bang Chatt to breathe. She left wondering how little she knew of her own coast — and thinking about what Jef Moons is trying to build there.
Voyageuse Passion
Sep 91 min read
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