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

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.

Published by Éditions Naima in March 2026, "Cambodge, l'art devant l'extrême" is far more than an academic essay. It is an intimate and rigorous journey through fifty years of creation in the face of the unthinkable.

At the end of a tow rope, somewhere between O'Svay and Preah Romkel, a boat loaded with books changed banks. This is not a metaphor.

Two years ago, he left Siem Reap on a bicycle with a promise. On Monday, June 22, he came home. The sun had not yet set over Phnom Penh when Tiv Dararith stepped onto the tarmac of Techo International Airport. Two years. Forty countries. Nearly 57,000 kilometres covered on two wheels across Asia, Europe, and southern Africa. The 38-year-old Cambodian adventurer had kept his word — the one he made on June 6, 2024, on the steps of the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap,

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.

Each year, the month of June returns with its rainbow flags, glitter, and statements of intent. But in Phnom Penh, Pride Month also has its running shoes. The Rainbow Run, organized as part of Pride Fest 2026, brought together runners, walkers, and onlookers this week for a 5 km unlike any other—one where the stopwatch matters less than the color of the smile at the finish line.

On Sunday morning, behind the wrought-iron gate of the former Bank of Indochina, frangipani trees filtered a still-soft light over an unusually protocol-heavy crowd — ambassadors, ministers, researchers.

For its 15th edition, the Chaktomuk Short Film Festival is not just receiving films: it is training those who will make them. A look back at a season of knowledge-sharing, encounters, and illumination.

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.

The SOSORO Museum inaugurated on Sunday morning a temporary exhibition as unusual as it is captivating, dedicated to the borrowings of Khmer from French. A major cultural event, just months before the Francophonie Summit.

From 20 June 2026, Art for Kep welcomes Shanghai Chang for a one-month residency at the singular setting of Knai Bang Chatt, in Kep. A contemporary artist, filmmaker, and notable co-founder of the Homeless Artists Collective, Shanghai Chang is based in Phnom Penh and works across a wide range of creative disciplines, reflecting a deep engagement with Cambodia's evolving cultural and social landscapes.

Her Majesty Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk celebrates her 90th birthday on Thursday, June 18, 2025.

During six days at the beginning of June, Phnom Penh changed its rhythm. Between the 5th and the 11th, the city saw nearly a hundred programmers, presenters, artists, authors, and journalists from Cambodia, France, and across Asia gather for the Chakto II professional meetings, the first event entirely dedicated to contemporary live performance in the Cambodian capital.

Five years after disappearing from the web, one of the most valuable digital libraries dedicated to Cambodia is being revived under the auspices of the SOSORO Museum. A revival that speaks as much to researchers as to those nostalgic for a vanished Phnom Penh.

Tboung Khmum. In the community house of Kdol Leu, under the tin roof that rattles slightly in the afternoon heat, about thirty villagers sit on wooden benches. There are grandmothers with weathered faces, men in sarongs, and a few teenagers who have come mostly out of curiosity.

He was finishing revisions on his first book when he died. Twenty-eight years old, a six-figure contract secured during a bidding war among New York publishers, and words of admiration from George Saunders, Mary Karr, Roxane Gay.

It is six o’clock in the morning in Siem Reap, and the slanting light of the rising sun turns the towers of Angkor Wat into golden embers. It is the hour when the first guards arrive, when saffron-robed monks silently cross the sandstone causeway between the stone nagas. It is also the hour, in Harry H Black’s novel, when something very ancient begins to burn again.

Tee Cambo grew up at the heart of Cambodia Town — that twenty-block stretch along Anaheim Street officially recognized by the city in 2011 as the first ethnic district in its history. Around 35,000 Cambodians live there, forming the largest concentration of the Khmer diaspora outside the Kingdom.

A doctor, survivor of the Khmer Rouge, Academy Award winner—and ultimately shot down in an alley in Los Angeles. The life of Haing S. Ngor surpasses anything fiction could invent. It tells us about Cambodia in both its darkest and brightest aspects at once.

With Almost Love: A Past-Life Destiny, the Khmer novelist delivers a debut that travels across eight countries and two lifetimes—translated by the sheer force of a universal language: love.

From June 11 to 26, 2026, the Bophana Center in Phnom Penh hosts a rare photographic exhibition — ten years in the field in Cambodia, distilled into a collection of portraits and everyday scenes by Antoine Raab. An invitation to see what only time reveals.