In collaboration with the magazine Searching for the Truth, initiated by DCCAM, Cambodge Mag offers you a series of raw testimonies from those who lived through the Khmer Rouge regime. Today, the tragic story of parliamentarian Buth Choun, told by his daughter, Buth Chan Mearadey.

In an interview granted to the Documentation Center of Cambodia team, 65-year-old Keo Sam Art recounts her journey, from her entry into the revolution against the Lon Nol regime to being tasked with treating the wounded and burying the dead.

As a teenager, the self-taught artist Moeun Chhay earned the tidy sum of 900 riels per month painting advertising hoardings for Cambodian films shown in Battambang. Disappeared in 2018, the artist was probably the last living representative of this pre-Khmer Rouge craft.

From the end of the 1960s until 1990, no methodical and systematic census of the Cambodian population was conducted that would have allowed for an overall picture of the country's demographic evolution over these thirty years.

King Ang Duong, who ruled Cambodia from 1841 to 1860, is considered a central figure in the kingdom's history. His reign marked a significan

On the Tonle Bassac lies an island that the Khmer Rouge used to intern the wives of the regime's victims.

The Mekong Exploration Mission was an expedition funded by the colonial government of French Cochinchina. Amid competition among colonial powers for access to the Chinese market, its main objective was to establish the navigability of the Mekong toward China.

At the heart of the meanders of the great Mekong River, in the 1st century CE, the imperishable legend of Queen Soma is born. Daughter of a nāga king, these mythical Hindu serpent guardians of the waters, she reigns over Funan, the first Southeast Asian kingdom with Indian influence, and still irrigates the Khmer imagination.

Jackie Chan, living legend of Hong Kong action cinema, has marked Cambodia with several unforgettable visits blending humanitarian efforts, culture, and cinematic dreams. From 2004 to 2009, and even beyond, the kung-fu icon immersed himself in this rebuilding nation, visiting Angkor and supporting vital causes.

INearly 80 years ago, amid the turmoil of the post-war period, Thailand – then Siam – buckled under diplomatic and military pressure to return territories conquered at the expense of Cambodia and French Indochina.

Queen Indradevi played a key role in the history of the Khmer Empire, where she came to the throne following her marriage to King Jayavarman

On the mystical bas-reliefs of Angkor, love becomes eternal sculpture; on today’s TV screens, it morphs into intimate drama, sometimes defiant. At the heart of Khmer books and films, this millennial sentiment reflects a nation’s upheavals: Angkorian glories, colonial shadows, genocidal abyss, and effervescent rebirth.

During the opening of the Santepheap Foodcourt, we had the opportunity to visit the Phnom Penh Customs Museum, located in the former building of the General Department of Customs and Excise. Although this project is still recent and continues to evolve, the site offers an informative tour of the customs history of the Kingdom — featuring historical documents, books, photographs, models, uniforms, and investigative methods.

One century later, André Malraux's raid on the Banteay Srei bas-reliefs continues to generate interest and controversy. While the Latchford saga and the rapid restitution of looted Khmer art have made headlines in recent years, Malraux's 1923 raid on Banteay Srei takes us back to an era when, even for self-proclaimed anti-colonialists, the notion that Khmer heritage could be exploited at will was still commonplace—and it must be viewed as such: a brazen attempt at cultural re

The most prestigious of the ancient Khmer kings in Cambodia's history remains without a doubt King Jayavarman VII (1128-1219), who reigned from 1178 to 1219 and significantly expanded the Khmer Empire.

In the northern suburbs of Phnom Penh lies a small house completely overrun with relics. More than 120 antique clocks — ranging from remnants of 19th‑century French colonialism to post‑war Japanese examples — decorate its walls.

At the heart of the colonial upheavals of the 20th century, Marius Moutet emerged as a pivotal figure—a committed socialist and pragmatic reformer. Minister of the Colonies under the Popular Front (1936–1938), then Minister of Overseas France (1946–1947, 1950–1951), he sought to reconcile humanist ideals with imperial realities in Indochina.

Since January 1, 1946, military cooperation between France and Cambodia has woven an unbreakable bond — one born under the French Protectorate and resilient through the storms of history. In 2026, this partnership marks its 80th anniversary, a jubilee that celebrates not only a brotherhood in arms but also a shared commitment to world peace, elite training, and the promotion of the French language within the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF)

Kyōichi Sawada, a bold Japanese photographer, immortalized the horrors of the Vietnam War, earning the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1966. His life ended tragically in Cambodia in 1970, in an ambush that remains shrouded in mystery. This account explores his journey, his iconic images, and the shadows surrounding his brutal end.

As Cambodians commemorate the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime on January 7, it is important that we reflect upon some of the...

7 January is a symbolic date that marks a high point in Cambodian history, but still carries the spectre of the Khmer Rouge. Some consider..

Today marks January 7, a commemorative date marking the end of the totalitarian Khmer Rouge regime following the victory of Vietnamese troops allied with dissidents of Pol Pot’s regime.

At the heart of the dusty archives of Portuguese exploration in Asia emerges the gripping story of António da Madalena, a Portuguese Franciscan monk who, in the 16th century, became the first European to set foot on the mythical site of Angkor.

In the heart of the nineteenth century, Cambodia stood on the brink of the abyss, caught in a vice between the expansionist ambitions of Vietnam and Siam.