At Chuun On Golf Resort & PGA, this native of New Caledonia is patiently building something that did not exist before: a world-class golf destination on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.

For its 15th edition, the Chaktomuk Short Film Festival is not just receiving films: it is training those who will make them. A look back at a season of knowledge-sharing, encounters, and illumination.

A stage director trained at the Geneva School of Fine Arts, Karim Belkacem Saadi chose Phnom Penh as the ground for an unusual artistic venture: founding a contemporary theater school, opening two performance venues, and training an entire generation of Cambodian actors—without public subsidies, without safety nets, driven solely by the conviction that live art can change how we see the world.

By signing a historic agreement with the British PGA, Chhun On Golf Resort reaches a decisive milestone. A closer look at the people behind an ambition that goes beyond the fairways.

The SOSORO Museum inaugurated on Sunday morning a temporary exhibition as unusual as it is captivating, dedicated to the borrowings of Khmer from French. A major cultural event, just months before the Francophonie Summit.

From 20 June 2026, Art for Kep welcomes Shanghai Chang for a one-month residency at the singular setting of Knai Bang Chatt, in Kep. A contemporary artist, filmmaker, and notable co-founder of the Homeless Artists Collective, Shanghai Chang is based in Phnom Penh and works across a wide range of creative disciplines, reflecting a deep engagement with Cambodia's evolving cultural and social landscapes.

Her Majesty Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk celebrates her 90th birthday on Thursday, June 18, 2025.

Cambodia remains one of the Asian countries where it is possible to consider a peaceful retirement with minimal administrative and financial constraints. Today, the Kingdom even offers special visas for retirees.

In the corridors of the Institute of Foreign Languages at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, a particular buzz has taken hold for several weeks. French-major students, experienced teachers, and administrative staff are each preparing, at their own level, for one of the most important diplomatic events the Kingdom has ever hosted: the 20th Francophonie Summit.

During six days at the beginning of June, Phnom Penh changed its rhythm. Between the 5th and the 11th, the city saw nearly a hundred programmers, presenters, artists, authors, and journalists from Cambodia, France, and across Asia gather for the Chakto II professional meetings, the first event entirely dedicated to contemporary live performance in the Cambodian capital.

The Last Stage Theater, Aquation, had not seen such a crowd in a long time. On Tuesday, June 16, La French Tech Phnom Penh held its first Tech Talk there, and the venue was overflowing: more than 150 entrepreneurs, investors, students, and institutional representatives packed into the former elegant theater.

Eight months after its inauguration, Techo International Airport has just secured one of the most coveted distinctions in the architectural world: a place among the World’s Most Beautiful Airports 2026, awarded by the Prix Versailles.

Five years after disappearing from the web, one of the most valuable digital libraries dedicated to Cambodia is being revived under the auspices of the SOSORO Museum. A revival that speaks as much to researchers as to those nostalgic for a vanished Phnom Penh.

A few kilometres from Phnom Penh, in the province of Kandal, the village of Kroh Kroubey is best known for its jasmine farms.

Tboung Khmum. In the community house of Kdol Leu, under the tin roof that rattles slightly in the afternoon heat, about thirty villagers sit on wooden benches. There are grandmothers with weathered faces, men in sarongs, and a few teenagers who have come mostly out of curiosity.

With the scheduled loss of its preferential trade advantages by 2029, Cambodia must reinvent its industrial model. A EuroCham forum bringing together public decision-makers, investors, and European experts provided, on June 9 in Phnom Penh, a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges and opportunities facing the sector.

Cambodian transport company Vireak Buntham Express (VET) announced on June 15 the appointment of Asendia Singapore as its logistics provider for international flows, an alliance intended to enable parcel shipments from Cambodia to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe.

He was finishing revisions on his first book when he died. Twenty-eight years old, a six-figure contract secured during a bidding war among New York publishers, and words of admiration from George Saunders, Mary Karr, Roxane Gay.

It is six o’clock in the morning in Siem Reap, and the slanting light of the rising sun turns the towers of Angkor Wat into golden embers. It is the hour when the first guards arrive, when saffron-robed monks silently cross the sandstone causeway between the stone nagas. It is also the hour, in Harry H Black’s novel, when something very ancient begins to burn again.

On June 15, 2026, Cambodia reached a new milestone in strengthening its ties with China. On that day, Phnom Penh officially launched an experimental visa exemption program for nationals of the People's Republic of China, applicable until October 15 next.

Take a French perfume house founded more than 160 years ago on Rue Saint-Honoré. Add a French importer, a French distributor, a hotel owned by a French group—and crown it all with the most charming and dynamic influencers in the Kingdom. The recipe for a successful launch, Phnom Penh version.

Tee Cambo grew up at the heart of Cambodia Town — that twenty-block stretch along Anaheim Street officially recognized by the city in 2011 as the first ethnic district in its history. Around 35,000 Cambodians live there, forming the largest concentration of the Khmer diaspora outside the Kingdom.

Sur les cinq premiers mois de 2026, le commerce extérieur du Cambodge affiche une progression de 19 % tirée par la demande américaine et l'effet des accords de libre-échange régionaux. Une performance d'autant plus remarquable que l'économie nationale absorbe simultanément un choc pétrolier, une crise immobilière et un repli des envois de fonds depuis la Thaïlande.

With Almost Love: A Past-Life Destiny, the Khmer novelist delivers a debut that travels across eight countries and two lifetimes—translated by the sheer force of a universal language: love.