Some places are visited. Others are moved through slowly, almost in silence. Knai Bang Chatt belongs to the second kind. In Kep, far from the noise of Phnom Penh, the monsoon repaints the coastline every year in deep, unhurried colors — the dark green of the palm groves, the wet gold of late afternoons, the near-black blue of storms passing offshore. For one season only, Knai Bang Chatt opens its heritage villas to Cambodian residents and expats for something increasingly rar

More than 150 tax specialists, senior officials and private-sector representatives gathered in Phnom Penh on 25 June to discuss the future of Cambodia's tax system. From the fight against informality to transfer pricing and double-taxation treaties, the Kingdom is sharpening its strategy to win over foreign capital.

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 the kingdom's furthest northeastern corner, where red dirt tracks meet a forest that never seems to end, seven highland peoples live by a calendar that neither Angkor, nor colonization, nor even Phnom Penh has managed to rewrite. A journey into a Cambodia before Cambodia.

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.

At the heart of the Sambo Wildlife Sanctuary in Kratie province, an archipelago of sand and flooded forest is attempting an unusual bet: turning tourism into a tool for conservation rather than a threat to biodiversity. A portrait of a Mekong that still looks like what it must have been before the dams.

Sitting on Cambodia's only land border with Laos, at the confluence of three rivers, the small provincial capital of Stung Treng has never made it onto a single Cambodian postcard. That may be exactly why it deserves a stop.

East of the Mekong, in the red hills of Mondulkiri, lives Cambodia's largest indigenous community. The Bunong never had a “spa-ready” medicine to sell to tourists — they have a survival pharmacopoeia, passed down in a low voice, one that scientific research is only now beginning to touch.