On the southern coast of Cambodia, facing the sea that lines Kep Bay, three former private villas have become one of the most singular retreats in Southeast Asia. Here, nothing is decorative by chance: every jar, every wall, every light switch carries a story. This is the inside story of Knai Bang Chatt, told the way you might tell the story of a country.

There's a song where she owns being 31 and single, and so what? In 1960s Cambodia, that simply wasn't done. Pen Ran sang it anyway. Between psychedelic rock, cha-cha-cha and near-constant controversy, here's a look back at the meteoric career of a Cambodian singer whose disappearance under the Khmer Rouge remains, to this day, wrapped in unanswered questions.

Between baroque façades eaten away by the monsoon, a market bursting with color, and pre-Angkorian legends, Chhlong, a small town in Kratié province, still holds the memory of a vanished golden age.

International media, travel agents, airlines, partner tourism boards: in the first half of 2026, the Cambodia Tourism Board (CTB) rolled out a four-channel marketing strategy to reposition Cambodia on the global tourism map. It is groundwork whose effects, the institution itself cautions, will only be measurable in the medium term.

Every two years, a handful of leaders from Cambodia's European business community step forward to take the helm of EuroCham's sectoral committees. In July, the European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia launched its 2026 campaign with a call for candidates; by early August, it had published the first profiles of those already answering that call.

The Cambodia Tourism Board (CTB) and Phare Ponleu Selpak, a Guinness World Record holder, have announced a strategic partnership around the 13th edition of the Tini Tinou International Circus Festival, set for November 2026 in Siem Reap and Battambang. The collaboration aims to move Cambodia's tourism story beyond the temples of Angkor and present the country as a living, contemporary cultural destination.

The August 2026 issue of the renowned French magazine GEO devotes its cover and a near-thirty-page feature to Cambodia. A prime international showcase for the country, at a time when tourism is looking to reinvent itself beyond the temples of Angkor alone.

At the end of a wooden pier battered by winds off the gulf, under sun-bleached parasols, a handful of families have kept up the same routine for a century: sorting, tying, cooking and selling Kep's blue crab. Psar Kdam, the “crab market,” is not simply a tasty stop on the road to Kampot. It is the living memory of a town that lost almost everything — except its bond with the sea.

Across the river from the Royal Palace, on the bank where the Mekong, the Tonlé Sap and the Bassac meet, Cham and Vietnamese families have lived on their boats for generations. As Phnom Penh raises glass towers all around them, all they have left for an address is a mooring spot — temporary, and always under threat.