Behind the great classics of Khmer sweets — num ansom, num kom, kralan — hides a quieter dessert whose story reaches back to a Chinese imperial envoy sent to observe the Khmer Empire at its height. Ta guan, a pudding of yellow mung beans served in a clear tapioca syrup, appears in no tourist guide. It passes on quietly, kitchen to kitchen.

From Kyoto to Boeung Keng Kang, ceremonial Japanese green tea powder has taken over Phnom Penh's trendiest cafés in just a few seasons.

A year after the armed escalation of July 24, 2025, December's ceasefire silenced the guns but not the grievances. With border crossings still shut, talks stalled on procedure, and nearly 900,000 migrant workers forced home, Cambodia is absorbing the economic and social cost of a century-old territorial dispute — while neither capital shows signs of yielding first.

July 24 marked a sombre anniversary for Cambodia: exactly one year since armed clashes broke out with Thailand along the shared border. To mark the date, Angelina Jolie chose to speak publicly, reminding the world that the humanitarian fallout from the conflict is far from over for tens of thousands of families.

L'Ambassadeur de France, M. Olivier Richard, a assisté aux côtés de S.E. Mao Havannall, ministre en charge du Secrétariat d'État à l'Aviation civile, à la signature d'un protocole d'accord entre VINCI Airports et WorldBridge, visant à créer un hub logistique à l'aéroport international de Sihanoukville.

Since July 24, a new US tariff regime has governed trade with 60 economies, from Brazil to Vietnam to the European Union. For Cambodia, the verdict is almost unexpectedly good: Phnom Penh avoids the heaviest rate and finds itself, for once, better treated than its main regional textile rivals. But the tariff relief does not dissolve a far older structural problem — the kingdom's near-total dependence on Chinese fabric.

CEO of Primalis Corporation and Vice Chairwoman of the Cambodia Rice Federation, Lynda Him discusses the role of women in Cambodia's agricultural sector, building the "Brand Cambodia" story, creating added value through exports, leadership in a competitive global industry, and her message to the next generation of Cambodian women leaders. Interview originally published in Cambodia Leadership Review — Khmer Women Voices 2026.

Brandon booked his flight on a Thursday night, somewhere between his second glass of white wine and a documentary about street children in Phnom Penh. By Friday morning he'd already ordered the polo shirt. Eight days later he comes home changed for life — just not quite the way he thinks.

November 1911. A steamship, the Armand-Béhic, glides up the brown waters of the Saigon River and docks in the sticky heat of the coming dry season. Down the gangway steps a thirty-nine-year-old man, a lawyer by training and a journalist by temperament, arriving to take charge of one of the largest and most coveted territories in the French colonial empire. His name is Albert Sarraut.