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Cambodia & Diaspora: Tee Cambo, the voice of Cambodia Town
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.

Editorial team
Jun 153 min read


Cambodia & Culture: Haing S. Ngor, the man who survived the impossible
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.

Editorial team
Jun 155 min read


Culture: Leakhena Ly, the Apsara who writes for the world, the story of a success
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.

Editorial team
Jun 154 min read


Ten years of humanity in images: Antoine Raab exhibits at the Bophana Center for UNICEF
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.

La Rédaction
Jun 123 min read


REFLECTION — When Phnom Penh looks at itself in the mirror of contemporary art
The Rosewood Phnom Penh hosts an unprecedented tripartite exhibition bringing together French visual artist Théo Vallier and two Cambodian artists from the new generation, Yean Sokheng and Koeng Rithy. A dialogue of perspectives on the living city, its rhythms, and its layers.

Editorial team
Jun 124 min read


Khvay Samnang: Spirit, Body, and Land — The land as body, the body as memory.
The Institut Français du Cambodge partners with SNA Arts Management to present a major exhibition by one of the country’s most acclaimed contemporary artists. A decade of works, a vision of the world.

Editorial team
Jun 113 min read


Paris, Phnom Penh and Khmer Art: Behind the Student Exhibition, a State Project for the National Museum
In Phnom Penh, Cambodian students are imagining the future of the sanctuary of Khmer art. Behind them lies a century of Franco-Cambodian history—and a project that is only just beginning.

Editorial team
Jun 114 min read


Artisans Festival: when Phnom Penh rediscovers the soul of its artisans
Thirty years in Siem Reap, and it is in Phnom Penh that Artisans Angkor has chosen to reinvent itself. The Artisans Festival, the first of its kind in the capital, was not just another event on the city’s cultural calendar. It was something else—something difficult to categorize.

Editorial team
Jun 104 min read


When Cambodian culture comes to Paris: a landmark exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the AEPK
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Association of Khmer Pharmacy Students and Pharmacists (AEPK), Sabay Events Production had the honor of designing and orchestrating an exceptional cultural exhibition in the cocktail hall of the Pavillon d'Armenonville, an iconic venue nestled in the heart of Paris’s 16th arrondissement, just steps from the Jardin d’Acclimatation and the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

Editorial team
Jun 103 min read


Cambodia & Art For Kep: Les Villas de Kep
Kep-sur-Mer was once a dream made concrete. Modernist villas rising from the jungle above a silken Gulf. French colonists and Khmer royalty. Prince Sihanouk shooting films in golden light. Then, almost overnight, the rockets came. And the silence that followed lasted decades — a silence inhabited only by ghosts, roots, and the sea.

Editorial team
Jun 91 min read


Diaspora: Tai’Aysha, the Khmer Star Reinventing Fashion and Hybrid Rhythms
Born on April 21, 1998, in Boston to a flamboyant Dominican mother and a Cambodian father, Tai’Aysha is a force of nature who dances through life to the rhythm of a captivating cultural blend.

Editorial team
Jun 83 min read


Khmers Rouge & Book: Mom, My Hero, A Daughter Gives Voice to the Unimaginable
Sokha You Herodier did not live through the horror of the Khmer Rouge — but her mother did. By taking up the pen for the first time, she offers her the most beautiful tribute: that of memory.

La Rédaction
Jun 83 min read


Patrimony & Phnom Penh: The Ghost of the Post Office Squar
Standing since 1892, the old Central Police Commissariat of Phnom Penh is silently disintegrating opposite the restored Post Office. Within its gutted walls, one hundred and thirty years of Cambodia’s history—colonial, Khmer Rouge, cinematic—await a verdict.

Editorial team
Jun 86 min read


Khmer star Shin Yubin, first national ambassador of UNICEF in Cambodia
L'UNICEF au Cambodge a choisi de confier sa première ambassade nationale à l'une des figures les plus populaires du pays. La nomination de Shin Yubin, actrice et chanteuse de renom, marque un tournant dans la stratégie de plaidoyer de l'organisation onusienne au Royaume khmer.

La Rédaction
Jun 83 min read


Phnom Penh & Culture: Artisans Angkor makes its entrance into art and beauty in the capital
Last night, more than 200 guests gathered at the Tribe Hotel in Phnom Penh for the inauguration of the Artisans Festival, the first event of its kind organized by the Khmer creative house in the capital.

Editorial team
Jun 63 min read


Photo of the Day, Phnom Penh, working-class neighborhood
In an informal district of the Cambodian capital, a woman holds her child close to her. The gesture is simple, the look tender — she speaks to him in a low voice, he alone matters.

Christophe Gargiulo
Jun 51 min read


Initiative & Journey: Laura and the Enigma of Happiness in Cambodia
There are destinies that resemble a never-ending spectacle — suspended in mid-air, brilliant, a little wild. Laura's, 34, a former performing artist now settled in Phnom Penh, is one of them.

Editorial team
Jun 33 min read


Sorithy Sor: From the Hell of the Khmer Rouge to the Factories of Airbus
In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia and plunged the country into one of the darkest periods of the twentieth century. For Sorithy Sor, a fifteen-year-old boy living peacefully with his six siblings in Battambang, everything collapsed within hours.

Editorial team
Jun 33 min read


Sports & Kun Khmer: KF Arena Raises the Curtain, Sov Men's Ambitions Become Reality
The evening of Friday, May 29, 2026 was not a fight night. No bouts, no knockouts, no ring girls. Yet for the small circle of combat sports journalists and insiders gathered that evening at the Aquation Theatre on Koh Pich, it may well go down as a landmark moment in the recent history of Kun Khmer.

Editorial team
Jun 25 min read


Cambodia & Society: Selfie Nation — In Cambodia and Asia, the Self-Portrait Reigns Supreme
The selfie phenomenon — meaning "a self-portrait taken with a smartphone" — likely counts several million devotees in the Kingdom. A trend that is only growing stronger (that's putting it mildly) among young and not-so-young alike, but one that also raises a few questions.

Christophe Gargiulo
May 314 min read


Artisans Angkor brings Khmer craft into the 21st century with its first Phnom Penh festival
For three days this June, Cambodia's most celebrated creative house leaves its Siem Reap stronghold to take over the capital — with a festival that fuses ancient heritage, contemporary art and live music.

Editorial team
May 313 min read


Cambodia & Exhibition: GUARDIANS, When Khmer Art Meets the Future
On May 20th, Bistro by Barista hosted the private opening of GUARDIANS, the first part of an exclusive art collection by Future Headspace. In the warm, intimate atmosphere of this Phnom Penh cultural space, gastronomy, wine, art and conversation intertwined into a truly singular evening.

Editorial team
May 313 min read


Photography: Phnom Penh at Dusk — National Road 1 Ablaze
It only takes a sunset to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. That evening, on National Road 1 connecting Phnom Penh to Vietnam, the sky decided to set the clouds on fire — literally.

Christophe Gargiulo
May 311 min read


Solidarity in Sneakers: 2,000 Hearts Beat for Cambodian Children
Under the first light of a Saturday morning in Phnom Penh, nearly two thousand participants strode through the lanes of Eco Park to the rhythm of a shared impulse: solidarity. The second edition of "Run for Charity" raised 104 million riels — or $25,900 — for the Kantha Bopha Foundation, guardian of Cambodian children's health.

Editorial team
May 313 min read
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