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Destination & Product of Cambodia: Kroh Kroubey, the village with the scent of jasmine
A few kilometres from Phnom Penh, in the province of Kandal, the village of Kroh Kroubey is best known for its jasmine farms.

Christophe Gargiulo
Jun 173 min read


Cambodia & Minorities: In Kdol Leu, the S'tieng relearn how to say who they are
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.

Youk Chhang
Jun 174 min read


Industrial zones: Cambodia plays its card ahead of the 2029 deadline
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.

Editorial team
Jun 173 min read


Vireak Buntham Express partners with Asendia, a subsidiary of La Poste, to support the growth of Cambodian e-commerce
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.

Editorial team
Jun 174 min read


Cambodia & Diaspora: Anthony Veasna So “He did not live long enough to see his success”
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.

Editorial team
Jun 163 min read


Les Cendres d'Angkor : When the Cambodian jungle becomes a hunting ground
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.

Editorial team
Jun 163 min read


Tourism : Cambodia Grants Visa Exemption to Chinese Visitors, a Strategic Bet
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.

Editorial team
Jun 165 min read


Health & Beauty : Centenary Fragrances, French Décor and Enthusiasm in the Khmer Kingdom
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.

Editorial team
Jun 164 min read


Cambodia & Diaspora: Tee Cambo, the voice of Cambodia Town
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.

Editorial team
Jun 153 min read


Cambodian exports surpass 14 billion dollars: resilience under constraint
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.

Editorial team
Jun 153 min read


Culture: Leakhena Ly, the Apsara who writes for the world, the story of a success
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.

Editorial team
Jun 154 min read


Cambodia & Journey: Eva Berlinson came for an internship; she stayed for a country
She arrived in Cambodia out of curiosity, “without really knowing the country,” as she says herself. A few years later, Eva sits on the board of French Tech Phnom Penh, leads CSR and cultural projects within a major Cambodian conglomerate, and is preparing to represent the Francophone tech ecosystem at the 2026 Francophonie Summit in Phnom Penh.

Editorial team
Jun 154 min read


Ten years of humanity in images: Antoine Raab exhibits at the Bophana Center for UNICEF
From June 11 to 26, 2026, the Bophana Center in Phnom Penh hosts a rare photographic exhibition — ten years in the field in Cambodia, distilled into a collection of portraits and everyday scenes by Antoine Raab. An invitation to see what only time reveals.

La Rédaction
Jun 123 min read


Cambodia & Nature: 2001, the last time a Khmer trembled before a tiger
Ten years after the official extinction of the Indochinese tiger in the Kingdom, Bengal tigers from India are preparing to set foot in the forests of the Cardamom Mountains. An ambitious gamble, praised by some and feared by others—caught between ecological hope and troubling uncertainties.

Editorial team
Jun 117 min read


Khvay Samnang: Spirit, Body, and Land — The land as body, the body as memory.
The Institut Français du Cambodge partners with SNA Arts Management to present a major exhibition by one of the country’s most acclaimed contemporary artists. A decade of works, a vision of the world.

Editorial team
Jun 113 min read


Paris, Phnom Penh and Khmer Art: Behind the Student Exhibition, a State Project for the National Museum
In Phnom Penh, Cambodian students are imagining the future of the sanctuary of Khmer art. Behind them lies a century of Franco-Cambodian history—and a project that is only just beginning.

Editorial team
Jun 114 min read


Artisans Festival: when Phnom Penh rediscovers the soul of its artisans
Thirty years in Siem Reap, and it is in Phnom Penh that Artisans Angkor has chosen to reinvent itself. The Artisans Festival, the first of its kind in the capital, was not just another event on the city’s cultural calendar. It was something else—something difficult to categorize.

Editorial team
Jun 104 min read


Cambodia & Initiative: KHEMA GO opens in Koh Norea
The express bakery-café network of the Thalias group sets up in the southeast of the capital, within a BVM Petroleum station.

Coin gourmand
Jun 102 min read


When Cambodian culture comes to Paris: a landmark exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the AEPK
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Association of Khmer Pharmacy Students and Pharmacists (AEPK), Sabay Events Production had the honor of designing and orchestrating an exceptional cultural exhibition in the cocktail hall of the Pavillon d'Armenonville, an iconic venue nestled in the heart of Paris’s 16th arrondissement, just steps from the Jardin d’Acclimatation and the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

Editorial team
Jun 103 min read


Cambodia & Health : Street 360, Where Memory Meets Modern Phnom Penh
There are streets in Phnom Penh that tell the story of a city. Street 360, in the Tuol Sleng district, is one of them. For many visitors, the neighborhood is inseparable from the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, a place of remembrance that preserves one of the most significant chapters of Cambodia’s history.

Partenaire Presse
Jun 102 min read


In the restored waters of Kep: how the Cambodian archipelago became a marine sanctuary
A “Hope Spot” at the edge of the world — Recognized by legendary oceanographer Sylvia Earle, the marine area of the Kep archipelago now represents one of the most remarkable conservation success stories in Southeast Asia.

Editorial team
Jun 104 min read


Journey: Building in Cambodia, Kevin Sabbe’s Technological Bet
He arrived in Cambodia at 18, almost by chance, thanks to a Franco-Cambodian friend. Fifteen years later, Kevin Sabbe has made this country far more than a destination: a home, a family, and the heart of an ambitious entrepreneurial project.

Editorial team
Jun 105 min read


At the ASEAN Future Forum in Hanoi, Hun Manet places peace, cooperation, and people at the heart of the regional agenda
The Cambodian Prime Minister spoke on June 9 at the 3rd ASEAN Future Forum, firmly advocating for the peaceful settlement of disputes—including the border issue with Thailand—and calling on the association to measure its success by the well-being of its citizens.

La Rédaction
Jun 104 min read


Cambodia & Art For Kep: Les Villas de Kep
Kep-sur-Mer was once a dream made concrete. Modernist villas rising from the jungle above a silken Gulf. French colonists and Khmer royalty. Prince Sihanouk shooting films in golden light. Then, almost overnight, the rockets came. And the silence that followed lasted decades — a silence inhabited only by ghosts, roots, and the sea.

Editorial team
Jun 91 min read
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