From a refugee camp on the Thai border to the sets of John Wick and The Expendables, Nop Daren's story reads like a script he could have stunted himself. This French-born performer of Cambodian descent, trained in the shadow of some of the biggest names in the business, now carries the colours of Cambodia into some of the most spectacular productions in the world of action cinema.

Twelve fellows at the Cambodian think tank Future Forum have published a collection of concrete policy proposals, ranging from tax reform to urban design to the invisible work of care. A rare exercise in policymaking conceived by, and for, the country's youth.

What remains after more than half a century spent building? Bruno D'Arcangues, General Director of Artelia Cambodia, an international engineering and project management firm in Cambodia, looks back on a career where technical skill meets management. From a childhood split between France, Algeria, and Morocco to his projects across Asia, a portrait emerges of a builder as demanding as he is imperfect.

Having moved to Cambodia in 2015 in search of her Khmer roots, Jannine Sem has built her career on two pillars: data and people. Today Head of People & Culture at SBI APAC and a Board Member of La French Tech Phnom Penh, she describes herself as a bridge-builder between French startups and the local ecosystem. She spoke to Cambodge Mag about her journey — an unconventional career path and a deep attachment to the country she has chosen to call home.

Sitting on Cambodia's only land border with Laos, at the confluence of three rivers, the small provincial capital of Stung Treng has never made it onto a single Cambodian postcard. That may be exactly why it deserves a stop.

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.

Battambang, late 1960s. Chantha Nguon is a pampered child in a comfortable family, the kind where meals are plentiful and the future feels like a given. Her father is Khmer, her mother half-Vietnamese — a detail that means nothing yet. It soon will, and it will matter enormously.

Montier-en-Der, Haute-Marne. Winter, 1862. A country priest sits in his presbytery reading dispatches arriving from Paris: a certain Henri Mouhot, a naturalist dead in Laos, whose posthumously published journals have set the capital ablaze.

In residence in Kep since June 20, photographer, filmmaker and fashion designer Shanghai Chang is shaping a conceptual fashion piece out of debris gathered along the coast. Portrait of a Phnom Penh-born artist who has made indiscipline his method.

Born around 1930 in Prey Veng Province, Chum Mey was an ordinary mechanic before the war made him one of the very few men to survive S-21, the most notorious torture center of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Phnom Penh will host the 20th Francophonie Summit this November, with more than 90 delegations expected, flags and protocol speeches guaranteed. A powerful symbol for a country whose late King Norodom Sihanouk was one of the organisation's founding figures back in 1970.

Le BA-BA du KHMER ORAL," by Fabien Peyronnet, positions itself as a serious alternative to standard tourist phrasebooks

À Kep, deux passionnés posent les jalons d’une communauté de kitesurf autour du Sailing – Discovery Center de Kep West. Frédéric Seynaeve et Gérard Vann nous racontent leur aventure.

Inscribed on palm-leaf manuscripts in the Pali language, encoded in the stonework of Angkor's temples, passed down from generation to generation by the Kru Khmer healers, traditional Khmer medicine stands as one of the great medical traditions of Southeast Asia.

At the prestigious Travel + Leisure Luxury Awards Asia-Pacific 2026, Raffles Hotel Le Royal has been crowned Cambodia's best city hotel, while its sister property, Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor, claims second place in this highly coveted ranking.

Born in 1958, the eldest child of a Cambodian farming family, Hang Nget was sixteen years old when the Khmer Rouge seized power in April 1975. Over four years, she lost her father, four brothers, and nearly everything that had constituted her life. Her testimony, collected in 2010 by TPO Cambodia and preserved in the DC-Cam archives in Phnom Penh, stands as one of the most shattering documents in the memory of the Cambodian genocide.

From the Basque Country to Senegal, the Philippines and now Cambodia, Clara Neumann found far more than a detour in Kep — a rhythm, a breath of fresh air, and perhaps a reason to stay a little longer.

He entered the Cambodian forest with two elephants, an interpreter, and theories about rubber. Eight days later, he stumbled out without a shirt or shoes, gaunt and dishevelled, utterly spent — having walked two hundred kilometres without food.

Four months ago, Pascal Catry took the helm of the French-Cambodian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFC), succeeding Cyril Girot in a relatively favourable economic climate: healthy finances, growing membership, renewed momentum.

Two signatures were enough to formalize what the sector had been enough or several months: a strategic cooperation agreement between AirAsia Cambodia and the Cambodia Tourism Board (CTB). On one side, Nam Vissoth, CEO of AirAsia Cambodia.

The Airavata Foundation is relaunching its charity gala on August 12 in Phnom Penh and is calling on businesses to commit to supporting the Kingdom’s elephants.

Arriving in Cambodia in 2023 for a simple tourist trip, Jean-Emanuel Stevens never really left. Holding a master’s degree in digital marketing and having worked with Luxembourg start-ups, in university teaching, and behind the scenes at Audi France, this 30-year-old Frenchman chose Phnom Penh to settle down and launch Vibe Event Solutions, a ticketing and event production platform.

At Chuun On Golf Resort & PGA, this native of New Caledonia is patiently building something that did not exist before: a world-class golf destination on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.

A stage director trained at the Geneva School of Fine Arts, Karim Belkacem Saadi chose Phnom Penh as the ground for an unusual artistic venture: founding a contemporary theater school, opening two performance venues, and training an entire generation of Cambodian actors—without public subsidies, without safety nets, driven solely by the conviction that live art can change how we see the world.