Every spring, all across Cambodia, high school seniors and young graduates open an account on the Études en France platform, fill in their choices, gather their bank statements, and wait — sometimes for months — for an answer that will decide their university year. Yet in Campus France's official statistics, Cambodia doesn't even appear among the top 25 countries of origin for international students in France

Every evening, between the Tonlé Sap and the Mekong, an entire street vanishes behind its stalls. Neither quite a market nor quite a fairground, the riverside Walking Street has become Phnom Penh's liveliest stage — a concentrated version of the city that only reveals itself once the heat has broken.

Cambodian Reaksmey Chhorpon achieved a dream that once seemed impossible. She wanted to become a scientist. Today, as founder of HathKal Lab, she uses chemical engineering to turn Cambodian crops into a range of pure essential oils.

In Cambodia, festive meals almost always include a dish made with fresh rice vermicelli (នំបញ្ចុក [nom bânh-chok]), served with plenty of raw vegetables (អន្លក់ [ân-luk]) and accompanied by a fairly thick, coconut-milk-based soup, most often containing flaked freshwater fish and seasoned with numerous spices. The soup resembles a liquid curry. One of the most popular versions of this dish is called "nam-ya" (ណាំយ៉ា) or "nam-ya curry" (ការីណាំយ៉ា).

At the beginning of the 20th century, Pierre Loti's travelogue ‘Un pèlerin d'Angkor’ (A Pilgrim at Angkor) played a major role in the French imagination, offering a poetic and melancholic immersion into the mystery of the ruins of Angkor.

Nestling in the heart of splendid green spaces, the natural charm of the RiverTree hotel complex lures guests away from city life for a...

Since we published our first article on this portrait, a controversy has erupted online: several Thai commenters have disputed our conclusions, claiming the woman in the photograph was in fact Siamese, not Khmer. After a fresh review of every available source — the museum's own archive, genealogical research, an independent encyclopedia entry, and costume scholarship — the conclusion holds: this claim simply isn't supportable.

Great hornbills (Buceros bicornis) are widespread across Asia, found mainly in forest canopies, and are occasionally spotted in neighborhoods of the Cambodian capital, perched on gutters or in a few trees. This isn't migration or a new range expansion. While hornbills are threatened by the gradual loss of their natural habitat, the ones seen in the capital are most likely birds that have escaped from their owners.

No need to hit the road to switch off. For one weekend, we headed to Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra, a benchmark for luxury in the capital, for a family-style guest experience: spectacular décor, a cocoon of a room, an open-air pool, Do Forni pizzas and breakfast with a view. All just minutes from home.

Without clear explanations, some families give up on appeals altogether and redirect their children toward other countries. One recent case illustrates this trend all too well: a brilliant student at the René-Descartes lycée, refused by France, is now preparing his future in Australia.

Kem Monovithya, daughter of former opposition leader Kem Sokha, has been appointed special envoy to Prime Minister Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet with ministerial rank, following a royal decree signed by King Norodom Sihamoni on August 17 — a striking gesture toward Cambodia's best-known opposition family after nearly a decade of confrontation.

Art for Kep has opened "Ten Boats+," an international call inviting artists, collectives, organizations, and communities to transform ten or more retired wooden fishing boats from Kep into contemporary artworks, ahead of Kep International Art Week — Edition 01, taking place 11–14 December 2026 on Cambodia's southern coast.

My name is Chenda. For ten years now, my life has largely revolved around four grey shapes living in the forests of Ratanakiri province. It isn't a job I do. It's an attachment that has, over time, shaped who I am.

A photo, snapped hastily from the doorway, posted minutes later in a local Facebook group: “Does anyone know what this is? It's in my garden, I don't know what to do.” In Siem Reap, as elsewhere in Cambodia, this scene repeats itself almost daily during the rainy season.

Forget prahok. If there's one Cambodian dish capable of throwing off even adventurous eaters, it's nhoam sdao — a salad built entirely around bitterness, made with the young leaves and flower buds of the neem tree, known in Khmer as sdao. Unlike amok or lok lak, this dish never tries to charm you on first taste: it has to be learned. And that's exactly what makes it one of the most revealing dishes in Khmer cuisine.

Just two weeks ago, Cambodge Mag published a profile of Bou Meng, one of the last known adult survivors of S-21. On Friday night, he passed away at the age of 85, from age-related illness, according to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). With him goes one of the last direct witnesses to what Tuol Sleng was.

Ream's Golden Silver Gulf International Tourism Resort - the spectacular 3,300-hectare complex set against the splendid backdrop of Cambodia

The Ministry of Information is no longer just issuing warnings: it now says it will take concrete administrative action against journalists, influencers and content creators found to harm women's “dignity” and “reputation.” The announcement comes just days after the minister himself summoned two creator groups for a formal reprimand — a sign that August 2026's warning is more than a statement of principle.

A picturesque farm stay in Koh Kong province’s Thma Bang district has become an attractive destination for many of the Kingdom’s nature-love

A grave face, a carefully knotted sampot, a gaze that doesn't flinch from the lens. For a century and a half, this portrait taken around 1866-1870 by French photographer Émile Gsell has circulated through books, auction houses and online forums — where it has been mistaken, in turn, for a Siamese lady-in-waiting, a Vietnamese woman, or the anonymous concubine of a colonial officer. She was none of those things.

Bernard's brother Michel lands in Phnom Penh for the first time. Bernard, eight years of seniority and a stool molded to his own backside to his name, gets ready to play seasoned guide. He doesn't yet know that Michel took two years of Mandarin in college and picked up a bit of Khmer out of curiosity before the flight.

He left a career in finance for New York kitchens, before founding Hem and Her in Richmond, Virginia, and becoming the first chef-in-residence at VCU's Institute for Contemporary Art. Through his pop-ups and his signature cookies, Santana Hem, the son of Cambodian refugees, reinvents his mother's cooking and carries, dish by dish, the memory of the Khmer diaspora in the United States.

Born in Montreal to Chinese-Cambodian parents who survived the Khmer Rouge regime, Ravy Puth has turned illustration into a tool for research and resistance. Between award-winning children's books, campaigns against anti-Asian racism and a graphic novel in progress on the hidden history of Cambodians in Quebec, she works to bring back a memory the genocide tried to erase.

5.57 million international tourists visited Cambodia in 2025, down from 6.70 million the year before — the sector's first real contraction since the pandemic. The Ministry of Tourism's annual report points to a near-single cause: the collapse of overland arrivals through the Thai border, closed since June 2025 amid military tensions. Air travel, boosted by the new Techo International Airport, held up well, and domestic tourism, up sharply, cushioned the blow in provinces spar