At the Hills Tribes Memory Community Center in Mondulkiri, under the auspices of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, a 22-year-old intern is spending her summer helping revive an endangered textile craft: Cham silk. The account of Mok Chantreapheak, a Business Administration and Management student in Budapest, sheds light on a project where commerce and collective memory intersect.

Prum Chit is 79 years old. He lives in Ba-noy village, Angkanh commune, Prey Kabbas district, Takeo province. Before the Khmer Rouge, he was a farmer. Afterward, he remained a farmer. But between the two, there were four years during which his cousins, his brother-in-law, his uncle, and the head monk of the local pagoda all vanished — taken in the night by the Angkar, for reasons no one ever explained to him.

Montier-en-Der, Haute-Marne. Winter, 1862. A country priest sits in his presbytery reading dispatches arriving from Paris: a certain Henri Mouhot, a naturalist dead in Laos, whose posthumously published journals have set the capital ablaze.

In residence in Kep since June 20, photographer, filmmaker and fashion designer Shanghai Chang is shaping a conceptual fashion piece out of debris gathered along the coast. Portrait of a Phnom Penh-born artist who has made indiscipline his method.

French gunboats steam up the Tonlé Sap and drop anchor facing the royal palace. Their guns do not fire. They do not need to. Inside the palace, Cochinchina's governor Charles Thomson hands King Norodom I a document to sign: a convention transferring control of the kingdom's internal affairs to the French.

Born around 1930 in Prey Veng Province, Chum Mey was an ordinary mechanic before the war made him one of the very few men to survive S-21, the most notorious torture center of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Phnom Penh will host the 20th Francophonie Summit this November, with more than 90 delegations expected, flags and protocol speeches guaranteed. A powerful symbol for a country whose late King Norodom Sihanouk was one of the organisation's founding figures back in 1970.

On paper, the numbers look alarming for Phnom Penh. On the ground, a different story is unfolding — one of a country rediscovering how to travel within its own borders.

He vanished in 1974 in northern Cambodia while trying to interview the Khmer Rouge. Marc Filloux, a young AFP reporter, was only 29. Fifty years later, Jean-François Bouvet retraces his fate in an investigative book, "L'homme qui voulait rencontrer les Khmers rouges" ("The Man Who Wanted to Meet the Khmer Rouge"), published by Éditions L'Harmattan.

Le BA-BA du KHMER ORAL," by Fabien Peyronnet, positions itself as a serious alternative to standard tourist phrasebooks

At the 4th Cambodia-Europe Public-Private Sector Dialogue, the Cambodian government closed out two long-running disputes and opened four new regulatory fronts, under the watchful eye of EuroCham.

Florian Bohême, Councillor for French Citizens Abroad in Cambodia, announced his re-election to the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad (AFE) while traveling back to Phnom Penh via Hong Kong. The news confirms, term after term, this Cambodia-based councillor's standing within the institutional framework representing French expatriates.

À Kep, deux passionnés posent les jalons d’une communauté de kitesurf autour du Sailing – Discovery Center de Kep West. Frédéric Seynaeve et Gérard Vann nous racontent leur aventure.

Inscribed on palm-leaf manuscripts in the Pali language, encoded in the stonework of Angkor's temples, passed down from generation to generation by the Kru Khmer healers, traditional Khmer medicine stands as one of the great medical traditions of Southeast Asia.

At the prestigious Travel + Leisure Luxury Awards Asia-Pacific 2026, Raffles Hotel Le Royal has been crowned Cambodia's best city hotel, while its sister property, Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor, claims second place in this highly coveted ranking.

Born in 1958, the eldest child of a Cambodian farming family, Hang Nget was sixteen years old when the Khmer Rouge seized power in April 1975. Over four years, she lost her father, four brothers, and nearly everything that had constituted her life. Her testimony, collected in 2010 by TPO Cambodia and preserved in the DC-Cam archives in Phnom Penh, stands as one of the most shattering documents in the memory of the Cambodian genocide.

From the Basque Country to Senegal, the Philippines and now Cambodia, Clara Neumann found far more than a detour in Kep — a rhythm, a breath of fresh air, and perhaps a reason to stay a little longer.

The 47th Extraordinary Session of the Ministerial Conference, chaired by Cambodia's top diplomat, opens the public audition of candidates for the OIF Secretary General post — a vote that lays bare the geopolitical fault lines running through the French-speaking world.

He entered the Cambodian forest with two elephants, an interpreter, and theories about rubber. Eight days later, he stumbled out without a shirt or shoes, gaunt and dishevelled, utterly spent — having walked two hundred kilometres without food.

It's a botanical garden unlike any other in Siem Reap, or even in Cambodia. Over an area of 15 hectares, aromatic herbs, flowers, trees...

Published by Éditions Naima in March 2026, "Cambodge, l'art devant l'extrême" is far more than an academic essay. It is an intimate and rigorous journey through fifty years of creation in the face of the unthinkable.

At the end of a tow rope, somewhere between O'Svay and Preah Romkel, a boat loaded with books changed banks. This is not a metaphor.

A $63.44 million financing package has just validated the country's first large-scale energy storage infrastructure. Behind the sober figures lies a strategic wager on regional stability and Southeast Asia's energy transition.

You must see it at least once. Not in a photo, not on a screen — for real, standing there facing the gulf, with the monsoon wind pushing clouds across the sky like it has somewhere to be. Kep in green season is not the Kep of postcards. It's better than that.