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12 hours ago3 min read
La Rédaction
2 days ago3 min read
ECONOMY & INVESTMENT
A Friendly Thailand? By Raoul M. Jennar
This text, originally published on social media, is signed by Raoul M. Jennar, an observer of Cambodia since 1989. A recognized specialist on Southeast Asia and particularly on Cambodian-Thai relations, the author offers here a critical and engaged analysis of the ongoing border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand.
Editorial team
2 days ago3 min read
Cambodia: A Portrait of Nitikar Nith, the Law as a Space for Boldness
Senior Associate at Tilleke & Gibbins Cambodia, certified arbitrator and mediator, and Vice-President of the Association Franco-Cambodgienne des Avocats et Juristes (AFCAJ), Nitikar Nith looks back on her journey as a Cambodian lawyer, the rise of women in the legal profession, the importance of legal education, and her message to young Cambodian professionals. Interview originally published in Cambodia Leadership Review — Khmer Women Voices 2026.
Editorial team
2 days ago6 min read
Dipterocarpus Resin in Ratanakiri: The Sap That Sustains the Villages
In the forests of Ratanakiri, an age-old gesture repeats itself, generation after generation: notching the trunk of a canopy giant to collect its fragrant sap. Caught between village subsistence, customary knowledge and mounting pressure from land concessions, the resin of Dipterocarpus — long known locally by its older spelling, Dichterocarpus — tells the story of an increasingly fragile balance between the mountain peoples and the forest that feeds them.
Editorial team
3 days ago6 min read
Cambodia-Thailand: One Year After the First Shots, a Border Still Closed, an Economy Still Bleeding
A year after the armed escalation of July 24, 2025, December's ceasefire silenced the guns but not the grievances. With border crossings still shut, talks stalled on procedure, and nearly 900,000 migrant workers forced home, Cambodia is absorbing the economic and social cost of a century-old territorial dispute — while neither capital shows signs of yielding first.
Editorial team
4 days ago4 min read
TOURISM & HOSPITALITY
1932 at Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor Unveils Four New Khmer Tasting Menus
Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor's celebrated restaurant 1932 has unveiled four new Khmer tasting menus, crafted by Executive Sous Chef Dorn Doeurt and Executive Chef Memo Hernandez. Spanning royal history, 1960s glamour and a Latin American-Khmer fusion, the new menus build on the property's Khmer tasting menu programme first launched in 2023.
Editorial team
3 days ago2 min read
Phú Quốc, the Island of a Thousand Names: Chronicle of a Disputed Sovereignty
Off the coast of the Gulf of Thailand, a teardrop-shaped island holds centuries of rivalry, colonial line-drawing, and quiet diplomacy. Today a Vietnamese tourist paradise, Phú Quốc still carries, beneath its white-sand beaches, the layered history of a territory once claimed by two nations.
Editorial team
3 days ago3 min read
Cambodia: SOSORO Museum Wins a Third Straight Travellers' Choice Award
The museum devoted to Cambodia's economic and monetary history confirms its status as one of Phnom Penh's must-see attractions, buoyed by fast-growing visitor numbers and a programme that shows no sign of slowing down.
Editorial team
4 days ago3 min read
Chronicle: Six European Tourists You've Already Met in Cambodia
Angkor has its temples, Sihanoukville its beaches, and Cambodia, every year, its parade of visitors from Europe. They don't all look alike. An attempt at classification, with no scientific pretensions, drawn from patient observation in the markets, in tuk-tuks, and by the poolside.
Editorial team
Jul 225 min read
ARTS & CULTURE, SPORTS AND LIFESTYLE
Chronicle & Humor: Bernard, King of the Bar Stool in Cambodia
Bernard arrived in Cambodia eight years ago. He never left. Neither did his belly. Bernard orders his Anchor at 4pm sharp, knows every bartender's name going back to 2018, and for the past six months, he's even found love. Well, a version of love. And you hear him before you see him.
Editorial team
11 hours ago4 min read
Cambodia & Nature :Sapria poilanei, the Ghost Flower of the Cardamoms
Somewhere on the dripping slopes of Mount Samkos, in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains, a flower pushes up through the leaf litter with no stem to announce it. It has no leaves, no visible roots, no chlorophyll. It lives for only a few days, grows nowhere else on Earth, and for more than sixty years the scientific world believed it had vanished. This is the story of Sapria poilanei, one of Cambodia's rarest and least-known plants.
Editorial team
12 hours ago3 min read
Chronicle & Humor: Sabine, High Priestess of Minimalism in Cambodia
Sabine preaches happy simplicity to 47,000 followers from her lovely condo with shared pool. She has a cleaning lady and only ever travels by air-conditioned taxi. She calls it "living with less."
La Rédaction
2 days ago3 min read
Khmer Youth Style: How a New Generation Is Redefining Cambodian Fashion
From TikTok fit-checks to the runways of Rosewood Phnom Penh, a new generation of Cambodians is rewriting what it means to dress Khmer. Between streetwear, sustainability and a fierce attachment to heritage, young Cambodians are turning fashion into a language of identity — and the country's creative scene is finally catching up.
Editorial team
4 days ago5 min read
Chronicle & Humor: Gilbert, the Man Who's Never Received an Invitation in Cambodia
Gilbert has never received a single invitation card in ten years. Yet he attends every diplomatic reception in Phnom Penh, without exception, with the reliability of a conscientious civil servant — except nobody ever hired him for the job. Nobody quite knows how he gets in. He himself never tells it the same way twice.
Editorial team
4 days ago3 min read
Achar Hem Chieu, the Monk Colonial France Could Not Silence
July 1942: a professor of Pali is arrested, without even his religious superiors being warned. He doesn't know it yet, but he has just set off the first major anti-colonial demonstration in modern Cambodian history. Dead in detention a year later, Achar Hem Chieu would go on to become a reference that generations of Cambodians would keep invoking — sometimes for causes that sit uneasily together.
Editorial team
4 days ago4 min read
HEALTH & BEAUTY
Tobacco in Cambodia: One in Five Men Smoke, and the Northeastern Highlands Lead the Way
A study published in Advances in Public Health offers the most detailed portrait yet of tobacco use among Cambodian men, revealing deep geographic and social disparities — and a tight link with alcohol.
Editorial team
Jul 223 min read
Cassandre Mariotto: From the Sorbonne to Cambodia, the Journey of an Asia Enthusiast
An international relations student at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, passionate about Japan since middle school and a walker of the Shikoku pilgrimage, Cassandre Mariotto came to Cambodia for her final internship at Mintha Care, where she led the company’s CSR projects. Between discovering the country, gaining self-confidence, and a clear-eyed look at inequality, she talks to Cambodge Mag about this Cambodian chapter of her journey.
Editorial team
Jul 205 min read
Khmer beauty: grandmother's secrets that stand the test of time
Long before imported creams and Phnom Penh's crowded cosmetics aisles, there was the garden, the market and the kitchen. Turmeric, lemongrass, tamarind, kaffir lime leaves: Cambodian women have drawn for generations on a pantry of local plants to protect their skin from the tropical climate. A look at a few Khmer beauty recipes — simple, natural, and still very much in use today.
Coin Beauté
Jul 162 min read
People of the forest pharmacy: inside the secret medicine of the Bunong
East of the Mekong, in the red hills of Mondulkiri, lives Cambodia's largest indigenous community. The Bunong never had a “spa-ready” medicine to sell to tourists — they have a survival pharmacopoeia, passed down in a low voice, one that scientific research is only now beginning to touch.
Editorial team
Jul 64 min read
Distribué dans toutes les pharmacies du Cambodge
RESTAURATION & GASTRONOMY
Pong Tia Koon: The Balut Egg That Splits Opinion in Cambodia
Come evening, wicker baskets and steaming pots show up on nearly every street corner in Phnom Penh. Inside: duck eggs that aren't quite what they seem. Pong tia koon tends to catch visitors off guard — but for most Cambodians, it's just a good evening snack, nothing more dramatic than that.
Coin gourmand
3 days ago3 min read
Ta Guan, the Forgotten Dessert That Traces Back to the Court of Angkor
Behind the great classics of Khmer sweets — num ansom, num kom, kralan — hides a quieter dessert whose story reaches back to a Chinese imperial envoy sent to observe the Khmer Empire at its height. Ta guan, a pudding of yellow mung beans served in a clear tapioca syrup, appears in no tourist guide. It passes on quietly, kitchen to kitchen.
Coin gourmand
4 days ago2 min read
The Green Wave: How Matcha Conquered Phnom Penh
From Kyoto to Boeung Keng Kang, ceremonial Japanese green tea powder has taken over Phnom Penh's trendiest cafés in just a few seasons.
Editorial team
4 days ago3 min read
KEP & KAMPOT GAZETTE
Anya Minko brings the colours of Kep's coastline to Art for Kep
From 4 August 2026, artist Anya Minko will take up a two-week residency at Art for Kep, turning her attention from the rivers and forests she has painted for years to the salt air, tides and fishing villages of Cambodia's south coast.
Editorial team
2 days ago1 min read
The Blackspot Razorfish Steps Out of the Shadows in Cambodian Waters
A small, jewel-toned fish has just made a formal entrance into Cambodia's marine biodiversity records. The blackspot razorfish (Iniistius evides) has been officially recorded in Cambodian waters for the first time, the result of a collaboration between Marine Conservation Cambodia (MCC) and the Royal University of Agriculture.
Editorial team
Jul 202 min read
Kep West Finds Its Voice: Melody & Joe Light Up The Wave
Saturday, July 18, 2026, from 6pm, The Wave hosts “Melody & Joe,” a music night presented by Art for Kep pairing a rising voice of Cambodia's pop-jazz scene with the vintage guitar sound of a British musician based in Phnom Penh.
Editorial team
Jul 151 min read
Kep: The Sea That Came Back — Chronicle of a Sanctuary Reborn
Ten years ago, the Kep archipelago was an exhausted sea: seagrass meadows ploughed under, dugongs gone, dolphins reduced to rumour. Today that same sea carries an international label, a quarter of a vast national restoration plan is already deployed, and fishermen are watching species they thought lost for good come back. A look back at two decades of stubborn work that turned this forgotten corner of the gulf into one of Southeast Asia's finest marine conservation success st
Editorial team
Jul 151 min read
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