Four chefs, four courses, and a run of Penfolds' best-known labels — that was the shape of “Le Terroir Retrouvé” at Topaz in Phnom Penh. The idea was simple enough: build each dish around what a specific wine does on the palate. What came out of it, guests said afterward, felt less like a wine dinner and more like two very different terroirs finally getting a chance to talk to each other.

On 12 July 2026, in Siem Reap, France's national holiday was celebrated at an evening event organised by CCIFC Siem Reap at Artisans Angkor.

A small, jewel-toned fish has just made a formal entrance into Cambodia's marine biodiversity records. The blackspot razorfish (Iniistius evides) has been officially recorded in Cambodian waters for the first time, the result of a collaboration between Marine Conservation Cambodia (MCC) and the Royal University of Agriculture.

Since its official inauguration on October 25, 2025, the SM Art Center has established itself as one of the most ambitious cultural spaces ever created in Cambodia. Located in Krosang village, Chreav commune, just outside Siem Reap's tourist core, the center presents itself as Cambodia's first contemporary art center and museum devoted entirely to modern Cambodian creation.v

“Losing my husband is the greatest wound of my life. He was not only a good husband, but also the head of our family and a strong pillar for our children.” Mrs. Oum Saroeuy, 49, still lives in Koul Village, Popel Commune, Soutr Nikom District, Siem Reap Province. She is the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Uong Vibol, the heroic soldier who fell on the battlefield of Ta Krabey Temple on December 9, 2025. This is the story she shared with us.

In the markets of Phnom Penh and in remote villages of Mondul Kiri alike, a savings system as old as village solidarity itself continues to do what banks sometimes struggle to do: lend to people who have nothing to put up as collateral except their word.

Standing between the old and the modern, between the village and the world, a stretch of land on the outskirts of Phnom Penh has carried a whole share of Cambodian identity for nearly a century. Pochentong Airport was never a mere transit point: from its very conception, it was a political and symbolic project, driven by King Father Norodom Sihanouk's vision of an independent, modern Cambodia open to the world.

As Phnom Penh steps up its fight against online scam centres, a shadow economy that had come to shape coastal towns, real estate and local employment, the country is going through a delicate macroeconomic adjustment. Between international pressure, regional shocks and a stated commitment to clean up the sector, Cambodge Mag tries to untangle what this transition is really costing — and who is paying for it.

There is a new creature at the vernissage, and it has evolved with alarming speed. It wears linen the way a hermit crab wears a shell — for protection, and because it looks fantastic in photos.

Beneath the stalactites of Laang Spean, in Battambang province, archaeologists have spent more than sixty years digging through a memory that stretches back several millennia. What the earth reveals there upends the idea of a fixed Khmer identity: Cambodia's first inhabitants did not all spring from the same soil. They arrived in successive waves, from the forests of Sundaland, the rice fields of southern China, and eventually the shores of India.

Behind every diplomatic reception lies a well-oiled process combining protocol, bilateral relationships and last-minute trade-offs.

EV registrations jumped 151% in the first half of 2026, a surge driven largely by the war in the Middle East and a determined government policy. Chinese, Japanese, Korean and American carmakers are now racing to set up assembly lines in the Kingdom.

Long before Jayavarman II proclaimed Cambodia's independence on Mount Kulen in 802 and laid the first stone of the Khmer Empire, the Mekong Delta and surrounding plains had already given rise to powerful kingdoms, largely forgotten by the general public today. Funan, then Chenla, spent nearly seven centuries shaping the political, religious, and commercial foundations on which Angkor would later rise.

Born in 1944 in Battambang province under the name Pol Sarann, Mao Sareth grew up in a family of musicians. In an interview she once gave to journalist and singer Huoy Meas, she mentioned having three sisters and coming from a household where music held a central place.

An international relations student at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, passionate about Japan since middle school and a walker of the Shikoku pilgrimage, Cassandre Mariotto came to Cambodia for her final internship at Mintha Care, where she led the company’s CSR projects. Between discovering the country, gaining self-confidence, and a clear-eyed look at inequality, she talks to Cambodge Mag about this Cambodian chapter of her journey.

Far from restaurant tables and dishes reserved for special occasions, one soup captures Cambodian home cooking at its most everyday. Samlor machu trey, a sour-and-savoury fish soup, is made across the country using whatever the day's market has to offer.

Long before imported creams and Phnom Penh's crowded cosmetics aisles, there was the garden, the market and the kitchen. Turmeric, lemongrass, tamarind, kaffir lime leaves: Cambodian women have drawn for generations on a pantry of local plants to protect their skin from the tropical climate. A look at a few Khmer beauty recipes — simple, natural, and still very much in use today.

Saturday, July 18, 2026, from 6pm, The Wave hosts “Melody & Joe,” a music night presented by Art for Kep pairing a rising voice of Cambodia's pop-jazz scene with the vintage guitar sound of a British musician based in Phnom Penh.

Nine films, four decades, one country in the spotlight: the 19th edition of the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival has chosen Cambodia as its guest of honour, and it was in Paris, in the salons of the Cambodian royal embassy, that the news was made official on 9 July.

Ten years ago, the Kep archipelago was an exhausted sea: seagrass meadows ploughed under, dugongs gone, dolphins reduced to rumour. Today that same sea carries an international label, a quarter of a vast national restoration plan is already deployed, and fishermen are watching species they thought lost for good come back. A look back at two decades of stubborn work that turned this forgotten corner of the gulf into one of Southeast Asia's finest marine conservation success st

Speeches done, time for the party. Bastille Day at the French Embassy in Phnom Penh also means hundreds of guests packed under a blue-white-red marquee, bursts of laughter, food stalls under siege, and glasses clinking late into the evening. A look back, in pictures, at the thoroughly joyful, easygoing mood of an evening built entirely around good cheer.

Cambodia confirms its accelerating integration into global value chains, driven by the United States, Vietnam and China — even as the import bill grows just as fast.

A chronicle of a conservation expedition in northeastern Cambodia, where science occasionally gave way to olfactory marketing. A true story — names have been changed to protect the anonymity (and dignity) of those involved.

Facing French Ambassador Olivier Richard, who had just outlined his reading of the Franco-Cambodian year, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, His Excellency Prak Sokhonn, replied at the French Embassy in Phnom Penh with a resolutely Cambodian reading of that same 2026: that of a partnership the Kingdom intends to see grow, all the way to the rank of strategic partnership.