Laurine Château, co-founder and CEO of UMAMI, represents a new generation of entrepreneurs combining hands-on experience, social impact, and an international outlook. Based in Phnom Penh after studying business and completing a master’s degree in Japan, she dedicates her energy to reducing food waste in the restaurant and hospitality sectors while creating opportunities for local businesses and city residents.

From the Green Globe-certified Sofitel Angkor to the bioclimatic jungloos of MAADS, and — regrettably in some cases — to gyms left permanently lit, air-conditioned, and nearly empty: an investigation into what eco-hotel certifications are really worth in a country where regulation remains fragile, and into the central role of training in building truly sustainable tourism. Important: all establishments mentioned have been visited by the magazine's editorial team.

At dawn, when golden light slides over the majestic silhouettes of Angkor Wat, Siem Reap awakens in an almost sacred silence. It is in this suspended moment, between mist and memory, that the Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor reveals its full poetry.

From May 21 to August 8, 2025, SNA Arts Management in Phnom Penh hosts Remembering, a poignant exhibition marking the first solo presentation of Cham artist Kaeu Sreypeou. Through a series of 18 acrylic paintings on canvas, the artist offers an intimate immersion into the collective memory and spiritual rituals of the Cham Muslim community in Cambodia.

Cambodia has been ranked the number one country in the world for its natural environment in the U.S. News & World Report Best Countries 2026 ranking, a distinction that highlights the richness of its ecosystems but also raises questions about the reality of its environmental protection.

There are diplomatic gatherings which, more than others, reveal a country’s trajectory. By hosting the 20th Francophonie Summit in November 2026, Cambodia reaches a milestone that, beyond protocol and customary speeches, says something essential about what this Southeast Asian kingdom has become — long scarred by history, now attentive to its own international stature.

With Beneath the Sea, presented in Kep as part of CIIF 360 and Art for Kep, director Vinay Bharadwaj delivers a film that is both aesthetic and committed, conceived to celebrate the beauty of the coastline while raising awareness about the fragility of the marine world.

A gallery owner, artistic director, and man of action, Lyvann LOEUK embodies a unique and deeply human vision of what civic engagement can be within the French community in Cambodia.

On the occasion of the elections of Councillors for French Citizens Abroad, we interviewed Matthias Vazquez, candidate for the Cambodia constituency. Running under the banner of the list "Relais citoyen des Français du Cambodge," he presents his motivations, the challenges he intends to address, and his vision of a mandate that is accessible and grounded in on-the-ground realities.

Reunited within the CIFF 360 at the Knai Bang Chatt hotel in Kep, more than thirty professionals from Cambodian cinema spoke frankly about the structures to build, the rights to win, and the stories to invent.

On the occasion of the launch of the Destination Éco Talents project, led by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Edgar Doerig, head of the OIF’s Asia‑Pacific office, detailed to us at the end of 2025 the ambitions of an initiative that intends to transform the face of tourism in the region, a few months before the 20th Summit of the Francophonie scheduled to take place in Cambodia.

Scénariste, réalisatrice, proScreenwriter, director, producer — this Cambodian filmmaker has been weaving a singular body of work for nearly twenty years, between metaphorical silences and hard-won freedoms. Portrait of a voice that matters.

Fort de dix ans de mandat et de dix-huit ans de vie au Cambodge, Jean Lestienne, conseiller des Français de l'étranger sortant, détaille ses priorités pour les Français établis dans le pays.

Photographer based in Phnom Penh for more than ten years, Antoine Raab presented last night a slideshow of his portraits made for the Cambodia International Film Festival on the occasion of CIFF 360, the festival’s decentralized edition which is setting up for the second time in Kep. Portrait of an artist who navigates lucidly through a sector in deep transformation.

Cédric Eloy, director of the Cambodia International Film Festival, has made it his mission to take cinema beyond Phnom Penh's air-conditioned screening rooms and bring it to places where stories hit differently. We met him in Kep, by the sea, for the second edition of CIFF 360.

Thursday afternoon, around fifty spectators gathered at Kep West, in the premises of the former Sailin Club, as part of CIFF 360 for a rare and precious screening: The Time to Cry (Pel Del Trov Zum), directed by Uong Kan Thouk, one of the pioneering figures of Cambodian cinema in the 1970s.

LBL International Construction, has officially formalized its partnership with MIRAKU Capital & Development Co., Ltd. for the G.A.T.O Tower project in Phnom Penh. The signing confirms LBL International Construction as the construction partner for one of Cambodia's most ambitious high-rise developments, with groundbreaking scheduled for June 2026.

Cambodia will celebrate the 72nd birthday of His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni, son of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Norodom Monineath, on Wednesday, May 14.

CIFF 360 — Kampot & Kep, May 13–17, 2026. The evening breeze drifted gently over the Kampot river as the first silhouettes began settling onto the beach, not far from the old colonial bridge. No darkened theatre, no cushioned seats — just the Cambodian sky, the murmur of the water, and a screen stretched out to face History.

In an extraordinary session of the 7th legislature, the National Assembly of Cambodia unanimously approved the military conscription bill and the one guaranteeing payment for electricity imported from Vietnam. These measures, adopted in the presence of 114 deputies, aim to strengthen national defense capabilities and ensure sustainable energy security.

The construction of huts for Kreung minority teenage girls, so they can have sexual relations before marriage, has long been rooted in this minority's culture. But it seems this custom now belongs almost entirely to the past.

There is, in certain programming choices, something that resembles a manifesto. Opening an international film festival not with an entertainment film, not with a light comedy or a universal drama, but with Meeting with Pol Pot—this sets a demand from the outset. That of a cinema that questions, that disturbs, that refuses the ease of the gaze.

Prahok is a type of fish paste that has been used in Cambodian cuisine for a very long time. It is made by fermenting the fish, and it has a strong taste. Prahok is considered as the most important ingredient in Khmer cuisine.

She met Princess Buppha Devi when she was very young and danced with her until the war separated them. In 1993, Pen Sokhoun was reunited with the Princess and the few survivors of Pol Pot's bloody regime. Together, they worked tirelessly to revive the ballet, restoring its grandeur and splendour throughout the world.