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."

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.

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.

From Kyoto to Boeung Keng Kang, ceremonial Japanese green tea powder has taken over Phnom Penh's trendiest cafés in just a few seasons.

CEO of Primalis Corporation and Vice Chairwoman of the Cambodia Rice Federation, Lynda Him discusses the role of women in Cambodia's agricultural sector, building the "Brand Cambodia" story, creating added value through exports, leadership in a competitive global industry, and her message to the next generation of Cambodian women leaders. Interview originally published in Cambodia Leadership Review — Khmer Women Voices 2026.

Brandon booked his flight on a Thursday night, somewhere between his second glass of white wine and a documentary about street children in Phnom Penh. By Friday morning he'd already ordered the polo shirt. Eight days later he comes home changed for life — just not quite the way he thinks.

November 1911. A steamship, the Armand-Béhic, glides up the brown waters of the Saigon River and docks in the sticky heat of the coming dry season. Down the gangway steps a thirty-nine-year-old man, a lawyer by training and a journalist by temperament, arriving to take charge of one of the largest and most coveted territories in the French colonial empire. His name is Albert Sarraut.

Vice Chairperson of Canadia Group and CEO of Intercare Hospital, Oknha Dr. Carolyne Pung discusses the rise of Khmer women in leadership, the development of Cambodia's private healthcare sector, raising awareness around women's health, and balancing long-term vision with the day-to-day management of large projects. Interview originally published in Cambodia Leadership Review — Khmer Women Voices 2026.

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.

“Losing my husband is the greatest wound of my life. He was not only a good husband, but also the head of our family and a strong pillar for our children.” Mrs. Oum Saroeuy, 49, still lives in Koul Village, Popel Commune, Soutr Nikom District, Siem Reap Province. She is the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Uong Vibol, the heroic soldier who fell on the battlefield of Ta Krabey Temple on December 9, 2025. This is the story she shared with us.

As Phnom Penh steps up its fight against online scam centres, a shadow economy that had come to shape coastal towns, real estate and local employment, the country is going through a delicate macroeconomic adjustment. Between international pressure, regional shocks and a stated commitment to clean up the sector, Cambodge Mag tries to untangle what this transition is really costing — and who is paying for it.

There is a new creature at the vernissage, and it has evolved with alarming speed. It wears linen the way a hermit crab wears a shell — for protection, and because it looks fantastic in photos.

Long before Jayavarman II proclaimed Cambodia's independence on Mount Kulen in 802 and laid the first stone of the Khmer Empire, the Mekong Delta and surrounding plains had already given rise to powerful kingdoms, largely forgotten by the general public today. Funan, then Chenla, spent nearly seven centuries shaping the political, religious, and commercial foundations on which Angkor would later rise.

Born in 1944 in Battambang province under the name Pol Sarann, Mao Sareth grew up in a family of musicians. In an interview she once gave to journalist and singer Huoy Meas, she mentioned having three sisters and coming from a household where music held a central place.

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.

Far from restaurant tables and dishes reserved for special occasions, one soup captures Cambodian home cooking at its most everyday. Samlor machu trey, a sour-and-savoury fish soup, is made across the country using whatever the day's market has to offer.

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.

Born in Battambang, exiled as a child, she returned as an adult to inhabit memory — Anida Yoeu Ali transforms displacement into creature, performance, colour. A portrait of one of the most visible artists of the Cambodian diaspora today.

Facing French Ambassador Olivier Richard, who had just outlined his reading of the Franco-Cambodian year, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, His Excellency Prak Sokhonn, replied at the French Embassy in Phnom Penh with a resolutely Cambodian reading of that same 2026: that of a partnership the Kingdom intends to see grow, all the way to the rank of strategic partnership.

For his first Bastille Day reception in Cambodia, French Ambassador Olivier Richard chose to look far ahead. Before an audience of ministers, diplomats and members of the French community, he laid out, on Monday evening, the picture of a 2026 unlike any other, one in which “we have the chance to write a new page” in the history of relations between Paris and Phnom Penh.

For one weekend, Sara and Cindy swapped the bustle of Phnom Penh for the calm of Templation, about ten minutes from downtown Siem Reap. On the agenda: one night in a pool villa, another in the famous Jungloo, surrounded by beautiful exotic greenery. Here's what they thought.

A new global index highlights Cambodia's contrast between an easy, affordable retirement and a still-young business climate — a contrast that recent economic data largely tempers

An internationally renowned radiologist turned historian of medicine, and later a public servant, Dr Chhem Kieth Rethy embodies an unusual trajectory: that of a child of Phnom Penh who became a professor on four continents before returning to put his knowledge at the service of Cambodia, from radiology wards to the forgotten hospitals of Jayavarman VII.

Every year, between the retreat of the low waters and the rise of the monsoon, the sandbars bristling at the confluence of the Mekong, the Sekong, the Sesan and the Srepok rivers become covered with a dense, dark population: cormorants. In early July, a new set of images published by the Stung Treng documentation center, devoted to the seasonal migration of these birds in Borei O'Svay Sen Chey district, served as a reminder of the quiet but vital importance of this Ramsar sit