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.

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.

As his one-month residency at Knai Bang Chatt draws to a close, textile designer, filmmaker and Homeless Artists Collective co-founder Shanghai Chang will present the results of his stay at Art for Kep on 18–19 July: sculptural busts in dyed textile, rising from voluminous woven skirts, that carry his recurring questions of identity, hybridity and transformation into three dimensions for the first time.

Nine films, four decades, one country in the spotlight: the 19th edition of the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival has chosen Cambodia as its guest of honour, and it was in Paris, in the salons of the Cambodian royal embassy, that the news was made official on 9 July.

Matching tops and bottoms, floral or polka-dot prints, worn just as readily to the market as behind the wheel of a motorbike: in Cambodia, pyjamas left the bedroom long ago and took over the street. A habit that has puzzled foreign visitors for decades and now fuels social media by the million views — raising a deceptively simple question: where did this trend come from, and is it still going strong?

One name keeps coming up on Phnom Penh's music scene: Arôme Khmer. This fusion band draws on Cambodia's golden era to craft a sound that is thoroughly contemporary, one that appeals equally to fans of Khmer psychedelic rock and to lovers of world music — and it is also a regular presence on the Kep West stage, where it performs once a month.

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.

From 17 to 24 November 2026, the Tini Tinou International Circus Festival returns for an unprecedented 13th edition, split for the first time between Siem Reap and Battambang. Organised by Phare Ponleu Selpak and its social enterprise Phare, The Cambodian Circus, the festival promises to be, in the words of its organisers, "bolder, brighter, bigger" than ever, bringing Cambodian and international artists together under the Big Top and out into the streets.

In collaboration with the magazine "Searching for the Truth," initiated by DC-Cam, Cambodge Mag brings you a series of raw testimonies from those who lived through the Khmer Rouge regime. Today, the story of Heng Sokphanna's husband.

James Speck built a career out of being early to new mediums. Now, a month into a residency at Knai Bang Chatt, he's writing a piece of music that puts the Mississippi and the Mekong in the same room.

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.

Since 6 July, Belgian photographer Aurélie Fischer has been staying at Knai Bang Chatt, in Kep, for a one-month residency organised by Art for Kep. Through the monsoon season, she explores the connections between landscape, labour and identity.

For four weeks this summer, Studio Images – Maison de la Photographie opens its walls to sixteen graduating photographers. Shaped by two years of training, their personal series look at Cambodia from the inside — memory, identity, and the quiet texture of everyday life.

How a Phnom Penh actress found herself, speaking both Khmer and Mandarin, in the credits of a short film selected at one of the most respected festivals in Chinese independent cinema.

How an interpreter from Siem Reap, who became the guide and friend of American journalist Sydney Schanberg, survived four years of hell under the Khmer Rouge before forging, out of the silence of his own survival, the phrase that would forever name one of the twentieth century's greatest crimes.

For nearly six decades, he was the quietest and most powerful name in the Asian art trade. Douglas Latchford — self-taught collector, published scholar, a familiar face in Phnom Penh's diplomatic circles — was, for his Western clients, the ultimate guarantee of legitimacy when it came to acquiring a Khmer sculpture. Prestigious museums, New York auction houses, wealthy private collectors: they all trusted him. They were wrong.

In Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri, two northeastern provinces where indigenous communities remain the majority, one in two teenage girls still consider it “normal” for a girl to marry before turning 18. A study published in March 2026 by UNICEF Cambodia and the Behavioural Insights Team dissects, village by village, the intimate drivers of a practice that Cambodian authorities are working to roll back.

On 3 July, at Bien Public in Bordeaux, a venue came alive to the rhythm of breaking and a Khmer DJ set for the launch of Hip Hope Community for Cambodia. It was only the opening move: on 8 July, the momentum carries on to Paris with the Tiny Jam. The shared goal, driven by the Bordeaux-based association Le Grand Crew, is to use dance to build a lasting bridge between the French hip-hop scene and two Cambodian organisations working on the ground, Tiny Toones and the Rombak Bat

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.

At the Hills Tribes Memory Community Center in Mondulkiri, under the auspices of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, a 22-year-old intern is spending her summer helping revive an endangered textile craft: Cham silk. The account of Mok Chantreapheak, a Business Administration and Management student in Budapest, sheds light on a project where commerce and collective memory intersect.

Prum Chit is 79 years old. He lives in Ba-noy village, Angkanh commune, Prey Kabbas district, Takeo province. Before the Khmer Rouge, he was a farmer. Afterward, he remained a farmer. But between the two, there were four years during which his cousins, his brother-in-law, his uncle, and the head monk of the local pagoda all vanished — taken in the night by the Angkar, for reasons no one ever explained to him.

The Bronx, Boston, the studios of Los Angeles: the quiet career of a Cambodian-American actress in the American film industry.

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.