Baptiste has occupied the same table at the same café for eight hours this morning. A two-dollar cold brew, a MacBook open across twelve tabs, and a Web3 project that, according to him, is going to "change the game for the whole country." He hasn't looked up from his screen yet.

« Mais aujourd'hui, je pense amèrement à leurs applaudissements parce qu'ils n'avaient pas d'autre choix et que leur vie était difficile...

From September 4 to December 5, 2026, SNA Arts Management presents, in collaboration with Richard Koh Fine Art, painter Pen Robit's new solo exhibition. Titled “The Root” (Ersokol), it delves into the daily life of Cambodian farmers, between the labour of the land, transmission and hope.

After Thai, Chinese, Malay and Indonesian, the mischievous little band of ghosts dreamed up by Editions Gope now speaks Khmer. A new step for this bilingual children’s collection that turns language learning into a game — and this time, it speaks directly to young Cambodian readers.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Pierre Loti's travelogue ‘Un pèlerin d'Angkor’ (A Pilgrim at Angkor) played a major role in the French imagination, offering a poetic and melancholic immersion into the mystery of the ruins of Angkor.

Since we published our first article on this portrait, a controversy has erupted online: several Thai commenters have disputed our conclusions, claiming the woman in the photograph was in fact Siamese, not Khmer. After a fresh review of every available source — the museum's own archive, genealogical research, an independent encyclopedia entry, and costume scholarship — the conclusion holds: this claim simply isn't supportable.

Great hornbills (Buceros bicornis) are widespread across Asia, found mainly in forest canopies, and are occasionally spotted in neighborhoods of the Cambodian capital, perched on gutters or in a few trees. This isn't migration or a new range expansion. While hornbills are threatened by the gradual loss of their natural habitat, the ones seen in the capital are most likely birds that have escaped from their owners.

My name is Chenda. For ten years now, my life has largely revolved around four grey shapes living in the forests of Ratanakiri province. It isn't a job I do. It's an attachment that has, over time, shaped who I am.

Just two weeks ago, Cambodge Mag published a profile of Bou Meng, one of the last known adult survivors of S-21. On Friday night, he passed away at the age of 85, from age-related illness, according to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). With him goes one of the last direct witnesses to what Tuol Sleng was.

The Ministry of Information is no longer just issuing warnings: it now says it will take concrete administrative action against journalists, influencers and content creators found to harm women's “dignity” and “reputation.” The announcement comes just days after the minister himself summoned two creator groups for a formal reprimand — a sign that August 2026's warning is more than a statement of principle.

A grave face, a carefully knotted sampot, a gaze that doesn't flinch from the lens. For a century and a half, this portrait taken around 1866-1870 by French photographer Émile Gsell has circulated through books, auction houses and online forums — where it has been mistaken, in turn, for a Siamese lady-in-waiting, a Vietnamese woman, or the anonymous concubine of a colonial officer. She was none of those things.

Bernard's brother Michel lands in Phnom Penh for the first time. Bernard, eight years of seniority and a stool molded to his own backside to his name, gets ready to play seasoned guide. He doesn't yet know that Michel took two years of Mandarin in college and picked up a bit of Khmer out of curiosity before the flight.

Born in Montreal to Chinese-Cambodian parents who survived the Khmer Rouge regime, Ravy Puth has turned illustration into a tool for research and resistance. Between award-winning children's books, campaigns against anti-Asian racism and a graphic novel in progress on the hidden history of Cambodians in Quebec, she works to bring back a memory the genocide tried to erase.

Brigitte has moderated the Facebook group "Expats in Cambodia" for four years. She's never met most of its 47,812 members. She does, however, know exactly where to find the best comté in Phnom Penh, down to the gram.

The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) has just published a bilingual Khmer-English book devoted to the life of Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk. Prepared for her 90th birthday, it retraces nearly a century of Cambodian history lived alongside King Father Norodom Sihanouk. Its release also revives a question that goes beyond tribute: whether her legacy, now inseparable from that of the nation, deserves legal recognition of its own.

For the fifth year running, the Forum de rentrée brings together several hundred families, newcomers and long-time residents in Phnom Penh, all looking to get informed, connect, and ease into the 2026-2027 season. Save the date: Saturday, September 12, from 9am to 2pm, in the gardens of the Institut Français du Cambodge.

Last night, the Sun & Moon Riverside Hotel in Phnom Penh played host to an evening like no other. Under traditional Khmer music, more than 500 guests — officials, entrepreneurs and friends of the cause — gathered for the 12th edition of the Airavata Foundation's gala dinner, held in support of elephant conservation in Cambodia. Between traditional dance, a live auction and an outpouring of generosity, the evening once again proved a resounding success for the foundation.

Trained in the demanding disciplines of Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan, Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1968) spent most of her life rescuing, cataloguing and reviving Khmer manuscripts. First curator of the Royal Library of Phnom Penh in 1925 and founder of the Buddhist Institute five years later, she trained two future Supreme Patriarchs of Cambodia and gave the country an intellectual tool that, without her ever intending it, would become one of the quiet cradles of national awakening.

Actress, writer and producer based in Toronto, Chantria Tram has spent some fifteen years building a body of work that explores, with humour and vulnerability, what it means to grow up between two cultures. From her solo show "Someone Between" to roles in series streaming on Apple TV+ and HBO Max, by way of a collective memory project with the Khmer-Krom community, her path traces the portrait of an artist for whom the stage is also a space for reconciliation.

Bernard decided, one Saturday, to "make the most of the residence pool." Six Anchors later, the pool is mostly making the most of him.

From 6 to 30 August 2026, The Gallerist on Street 240 in Phnom Penh is hosting Neighbour, a solo exhibition by Cambodian painter Thun Dina. Through a new series of oil and acrylic canvases, the artist looks back on his childhood spent along the Mekong River, and on the upheavals that have since reshaped its banks and the lives of those who call them home.

In the Phnom Penh of Cambodia's musical golden age, Meas Samon stood out in a register all his own: comic, satirical song. A notable figure on the Khmer rock and psychedelic scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the few artists of his generation to make audiences laugh while slipping in a genuine critical eye on Cambodian society. His career, like that of so many musicians of the era, would be brutally cut short by the Khmer Rouge.

Never point your feet at a monk, count a gecko's calls to learn your romantic fate, or change your name to throw a restless spirit off your trail: in Cambodia, a set of popular beliefs still quietly shapes small everyday gestures. Some stem from Buddhist etiquette, others from an older folklore that predates Buddhism's arrival altogether. A look at eight of them, as documented by researchers, teachers, and Cambodians themselves.

In Phnom Penh, life slows down around the Olympic Stadium. The Cambodian Pétanque and Boules Federation gathers its devotees on its own courts, in the shade of tall trees, amid the click of metal balls and the smell of sun-warmed gravel.