How an interpreter from Siem Reap, who became the guide and friend of American journalist Sydney Schanberg, survived four years of hell under the Khmer Rouge before forging, out of the silence of his own survival, the phrase that would forever name one of the twentieth century's greatest crimes.

For nearly six decades, he was the quietest and most powerful name in the Asian art trade. Douglas Latchford — self-taught collector, published scholar, a familiar face in Phnom Penh's diplomatic circles — was, for his Western clients, the ultimate guarantee of legitimacy when it came to acquiring a Khmer sculpture. Prestigious museums, New York auction houses, wealthy private collectors: they all trusted him. They were wrong.

In Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri, two northeastern provinces where indigenous communities remain the majority, one in two teenage girls still consider it “normal” for a girl to marry before turning 18. A study published in March 2026 by UNICEF Cambodia and the Behavioural Insights Team dissects, village by village, the intimate drivers of a practice that Cambodian authorities are working to roll back.

At the heart of the Sambo Wildlife Sanctuary in Kratie province, an archipelago of sand and flooded forest is attempting an unusual bet: turning tourism into a tool for conservation rather than a threat to biodiversity. A portrait of a Mekong that still looks like what it must have been before the dams.

Sitting on Cambodia's only land border with Laos, at the confluence of three rivers, the small provincial capital of Stung Treng has never made it onto a single Cambodian postcard. That may be exactly why it deserves a stop.

East of the Mekong, in the red hills of Mondulkiri, lives Cambodia's largest indigenous community. The Bunong never had a “spa-ready” medicine to sell to tourists — they have a survival pharmacopoeia, passed down in a low voice, one that scientific research is only now beginning to touch.

In November 2026, the kingdom will host the 20th Francophonie Summit for the first time in its history. With just a few months to go, EuroCham Cambodia has taken the lead by unveiling a detailed roadmap for an unprecedented diplomatic, economic and cultural sequence for the country.

The Prime Minister presided, on 2 July in Phnom Penh, over the 30th-anniversary ceremony of Pour un Sourire d'Enfant and the graduation of the 2021-2024 classes, in the presence of the French Embassy.

On 3 July, at Bien Public in Bordeaux, a venue came alive to the rhythm of breaking and a Khmer DJ set for the launch of Hip Hope Community for Cambodia. It was only the opening move: on 8 July, the momentum carries on to Paris with the Tiny Jam. The shared goal, driven by the Bordeaux-based association Le Grand Crew, is to use dance to build a lasting bridge between the French hip-hop scene and two Cambodian organisations working on the ground, Tiny Toones and the Rombak Bat

Battambang, late 1960s. Chantha Nguon is a pampered child in a comfortable family, the kind where meals are plentiful and the future feels like a given. Her father is Khmer, her mother half-Vietnamese — a detail that means nothing yet. It soon will, and it will matter enormously.

Between brand-new expressways, sprawling special economic zones and an airport barely out of the ground, the Cambodian kingdom is accelerating its industrial transformation. A report published this year by realestate.com.kh paints the picture of a still-young market that is nonetheless ready to take off — provided it comes to terms with some well-identified structural weaknesses.

In Siem Bok district, an industrial eucalyptus plantation illustrates Cambodia's strategy to cut down on processed-timber imports, blending domestic supply-chain building with provincial economic development.

Topaz Restaurant, a landmark of French gastronomy on Norodom Boulevard, is preparing for an exceptional evening. On Thursday, 16 July 2026, starting at 7:00 PM, the restaurant will host L'Art du Partage, a tasting dinner bringing together four acclaimed chefs around a single ambition: to celebrate the dialogue between French culinary craftsmanship and the richness of Cambodia's terroir.

At the Hills Tribes Memory Community Center in Mondulkiri, under the auspices of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, a 22-year-old intern is spending her summer helping revive an endangered textile craft: Cham silk. The account of Mok Chantreapheak, a Business Administration and Management student in Budapest, sheds light on a project where commerce and collective memory intersect.

Prum Chit is 79 years old. He lives in Ba-noy village, Angkanh commune, Prey Kabbas district, Takeo province. Before the Khmer Rouge, he was a farmer. Afterward, he remained a farmer. But between the two, there were four years during which his cousins, his brother-in-law, his uncle, and the head monk of the local pagoda all vanished — taken in the night by the Angkar, for reasons no one ever explained to him.

Montier-en-Der, Haute-Marne. Winter, 1862. A country priest sits in his presbytery reading dispatches arriving from Paris: a certain Henri Mouhot, a naturalist dead in Laos, whose posthumously published journals have set the capital ablaze.

In residence in Kep since June 20, photographer, filmmaker and fashion designer Shanghai Chang is shaping a conceptual fashion piece out of debris gathered along the coast. Portrait of a Phnom Penh-born artist who has made indiscipline his method.

French gunboats steam up the Tonlé Sap and drop anchor facing the royal palace. Their guns do not fire. They do not need to. Inside the palace, Cochinchina's governor Charles Thomson hands King Norodom I a document to sign: a convention transferring control of the kingdom's internal affairs to the French.

Born around 1930 in Prey Veng Province, Chum Mey was an ordinary mechanic before the war made him one of the very few men to survive S-21, the most notorious torture center of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Phnom Penh will host the 20th Francophonie Summit this November, with more than 90 delegations expected, flags and protocol speeches guaranteed. A powerful symbol for a country whose late King Norodom Sihanouk was one of the organisation's founding figures back in 1970.

On paper, the numbers look alarming for Phnom Penh. On the ground, a different story is unfolding — one of a country rediscovering how to travel within its own borders.

He vanished in 1974 in northern Cambodia while trying to interview the Khmer Rouge. Marc Filloux, a young AFP reporter, was only 29. Fifty years later, Jean-François Bouvet retraces his fate in an investigative book, "L'homme qui voulait rencontrer les Khmers rouges" ("The Man Who Wanted to Meet the Khmer Rouge"), published by Éditions L'Harmattan.

Le BA-BA du KHMER ORAL," by Fabien Peyronnet, positions itself as a serious alternative to standard tourist phrasebooks

At the 4th Cambodia-Europe Public-Private Sector Dialogue, the Cambodian government closed out two long-running disputes and opened four new regulatory fronts, under the watchful eye of EuroCham.