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ECONOMY & INVESTMENT
Maritime dispute: Cambodia faces Thailand before the UN conciliation commission
Led by Prak Sokhonn, the Cambodian delegation is attending the first meeting of the conciliation commission constituted under Annex V of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, held in Singapore from 14 to 16 September 2026.
Editorial team
8 hours ago5 min read
Forum de Rentrée in Phnom Penh: a successful fifth edition, rain and all
Thirty stands, live demonstrations and two hundred visitors despite the rain: inside the fifth back-to-school Forum of Phnom Penh's French community, with Florian Bohême
La Rédaction
11 hours ago4 min read
Cambodia-Thailand border: Phnom Penh’s patience against the fait accompli
Twenty months after the first ceasefire, Thai forces are demolishing houses, digging bunkers and drilling wells on land Cambodia claims. Phnom Penh answers with protest notes and legal proceedings. On 15 September, a United Nations conciliation commission opens its work in Singapore.
Editorial team
4 days ago8 min read
Cambodia: La French Tech Phnom Penh launches “Rendez-Vous Tech” at the Digital Trade Forum
La French Tech Phnom Penh is launching “Rendez-Vous Tech”, a new initiative designed to create more opportunities for entrepreneurs, startups, companies and technology professionals to meet, exchange ideas and build concrete connections within Cambodia’s fast-growing digital ecosystem.
Editorial team
4 days ago3 min read
TOURISM & HOSPITALITY
Sustainable tourism: in Cyprus, Cambodia defends its “green gold”
Cambodia took part in a Francophone seminar in Cyprus from 31 August to 4 September 2026, defending a territorial vision of sustainable tourism under the OIF’s Destination Éco-Talents project, as international arrivals fall 46%.
Editorial team
8 hours ago5 min read
Arjuna Solitaire Hotel, Sihanoukville – Episode 5: Twenty-fifth Floor, the Royal Lunch at Wang Long and the End of the Journey
Cambodge Mag closes its stay at the Arjuna Solitaire Hotel in Sihanoukville with the all-you-can-eat lunch at Wang Long, the 25th-floor Cantonese and Sichuan restaurant: Kung Pao lobster, steamed grouper, crab, char siu and dim sum for 58 dollars.
Editorial team
9 hours ago5 min read
Arjuna Solitaire Hotel, Sihanoukville – Episode 4: A Night at Khayangan Beach Club, Floral Shirts and Neon in the Rain
Après six provinces et six verres de Sora, il fallait redescendre. Pas dans la chambre : au rez-de-chaussée de Kampong Dewa, où le Khayangan Beach Club, que tout le monde ici appelle le KBC, ouvre chaque soir jusqu'à une heure du matin, deux le week-end. Quatrième épisode de notre série : le samedi soir, sous la pluie, entre une scène LED, des chemises à fleurs et une grande roue allumée au loin.
Editorial team
4 days ago4 min read
Otres on a Monsoon Sunday: the Cambodians' Beach
Otres beach, Otres Sihanoukville, Sihanoukville beach, Cambodia beach, Cambodia rainy season, Kampong Dewa, Cambodia photo essay
Voyageuse Passion
4 days ago4 min read
ARTS & CULTURE, SPORTS AND LIFESTYLE
“Spirit, Body, and Land”: final weeks to see Khvay Samnang at the Institut français du Cambodge
Vine-woven masks, panels mixing forest and plastic, brass seeds: a walk through Khvay Samnang’s exhibition “Spirit, Body, and Land” at the Institut français du Cambodge gallery in Phnom Penh, until 26 September 2026, free admission.
Editorial team
9 hours ago5 min read
Chronicle & Humour: Bernard, Kevin, and the Cambodia You’re Always the First to Discover
There exists, at the bar, a hierarchy more sacred than age, money or tolerance: seniority. Whoever got here first is right. Bernard knows this. Which is why Kevin’s arrival was a declaration of war.
Editorial team
9 hours ago4 min read
Khmer pottery: the clay of Andong Russey in the hands of Veranda Pottery
: In Andong Russey, Kampong Chhnang, potters have been building jars without a wheel for over a thousand years. Veranda Pottery keeps that skill alive in Phnom Penh.
Editorial team
10 hours ago4 min read
Rescuing dogs and cats, and a café on the way: the Dirty Paws story
Dirty Paws: sixty dogs, five cats and a café coming
Editorial team
11 hours ago4 min read
At SOSORO Museum, Colin Grafton recalls his Cambodia before 1975
Over 70 people at the SOSORO Museum for Colin Grafton’s book on Cambodia from 1972 to 1975, a photographer who left ten days before the Khmer Rouge
La Rédaction
3 days ago3 min read
The Terrace of the Elephants, a favourite backdrop for pre-wedding photos
At Angkor Thom, the Terrace of the Elephants has become one of the favourite spots for Cambodian couples to shoot their engagement and pre-wedding photos. Each late afternoon, couples, make-up artists and photography teams gather there, with centuries-old temples as a backdrop.
Editorial team
4 days ago2 min read
HEALTH & BEAUTY
World Wellness Weekend: Three Days to Slow Down on the Kep Coast
From 18 to 20 September 2026, Kep West Wellness turns the pier, the garden and the dining rooms of Knai Bang Chatt into a single, unhurried invitation: come and remember what it feels like to have nothing to do but breathe, move and eat well by the sea.
Editorial team
5 days ago1 min read
From Training to Transformation: Sophie’s Role in Ucare Pharmacy’s Growth
Since joining Ucare Pharmacy, Sophie has moved from community pharmacy practice into training, digital communication and network development, helping build the professional development backbone of Cambodia's leading pharmacy chain.
Partenaire Presse
Aug 264 min read
Cambodia & Initiative: HathKal Lab, a 100% Cambodian Essential Oils Laboratory
Cambodian Reaksmey Chhorpon achieved a dream that once seemed impossible. She wanted to become a scientist. Today, as founder of HathKal Lab, she uses chemical engineering to turn Cambodian crops into a range of pure essential oils.
Partenaire Presse
Aug 235 min read
Found a snake in Siem Reap? Here's what you actually need to know — and what to do if you're bitten
A photo, snapped hastily from the doorway, posted minutes later in a local Facebook group: “Does anyone know what this is? It's in my garden, I don't know what to do.” In Siem Reap, as elsewhere in Cambodia, this scene repeats itself almost daily during the rainy season.
Editorial team
Aug 175 min read
RESTAURATION & GASTRONOMY
Cambodia & Gastronomy: Chef Sopheak Sao to Bring Khmer Cuisine to SIAL Paris 2026
In October, the executive chef of Malis Siem Reap will join a Cambodian delegation at SIAL Paris, one of the world's largest professional food industry events. He will present a Khmer cuisine built around local products, including Kampot pepper, palm sugar, mango and cashew nuts.
Editorial team
6 days ago5 min read
Diaspora & Cuisine: Chanthy Yen, Cambodia on Canada's menu
Born in Windsor, Ontario, to Cambodian refugee parents, Chanthy Yen learned to cook on the floor of his grandmother's kitchen. He has since won Top Chef Canada, cooked for Justin Trudeau, and opened Touk, his Cambodian restaurant, in Vancouver. A portrait of a chef who has put Khmer cooking front and centre.
Editorial team
6 days ago3 min read
The Chef's Table: Fabrizio Aceti Brings a New Italian Chapter to Do Forni
VIPs, influencers and food lovers gathered this week around a five-course menu set to officially join the à la carte selection in October. At the stove: Italian chef Fabrizio Aceti, flown in specially to present his newest creation.
Coin gourmand
Aug 314 min read
KEP & KAMPOT GAZETTE
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
8 hours ago1 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
4 days ago1 min read
Knai Bang Chatt in Kep: The Story of Three Villas Saved from Oblivion
By the sea, three old villas built for a governor, a relative of the king and a senior customs official tell, between them, the whole fate of Kep: colonial splendour, the war that swallowed everything, then a patient rebirth carried by lovers of Khmer heritage. This is the story of Knai Bang Chatt.
Voyageuse Passion
Sep 12 min read
A Day of Discovery and Conservation on Koh Ach Seh, MCC's Marine Sanctuary Off Kep
A few dozen minutes off the coast of Kep, a former wartime outpost is being reborn as a sanctuary for Cambodia's marine life. Marine Conservation Cambodia, a partner of Kep West's Art for Kep programme, runs its research base here — and Kep West organises trips out to the island for guests curious to see the work firsthand.
Editorial team
Sep 12 min read
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