Far from restaurant tables and dishes reserved for special occasions, one soup captures Cambodian home cooking at its most everyday. Samlor machu trey, a sour-and-savoury fish soup, is made across the country using whatever the day's market has to offer.

Long before imported creams and Phnom Penh's crowded cosmetics aisles, there was the garden, the market and the kitchen. Turmeric, lemongrass, tamarind, kaffir lime leaves: Cambodian women have drawn for generations on a pantry of local plants to protect their skin from the tropical climate. A look at a few Khmer beauty recipes — simple, natural, and still very much in use today.

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.

Saturday, July 18, 2026, from 6pm, The Wave hosts “Melody & Joe,” a music night presented by Art for Kep pairing a rising voice of Cambodia's pop-jazz scene with the vintage guitar sound of a British musician based in Phnom Penh.

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?

Ten years ago, the Kep archipelago was an exhausted sea: seagrass meadows ploughed under, dugongs gone, dolphins reduced to rumour. Today that same sea carries an international label, a quarter of a vast national restoration plan is already deployed, and fishermen are watching species they thought lost for good come back. A look back at two decades of stubborn work that turned this forgotten corner of the gulf into one of Southeast Asia's finest marine conservation success st

Speeches done, time for the party. Bastille Day at the French Embassy in Phnom Penh also means hundreds of guests packed under a blue-white-red marquee, bursts of laughter, food stalls under siege, and glasses clinking late into the evening. A look back, in pictures, at the thoroughly joyful, easygoing mood of an evening built entirely around good cheer.