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Cambodia & Cinema: Vichara Dany, the Vanished Star of Khmer Film
She is said to have made more than a hundred films in barely seven years. Then the Khmer Rouge reached Phnom Penh, and Vichara Dany vanished from the screen. To this day, nobody knows for certain how she died.

Editorial team
6 days ago2 min read


Pou Vannary, the Cambodian who sang Carole King in Khmer
Pou Vannary accompanied herself on guitar and adapted American pop into Khmer. Six years of career, a handful of records, and a disappearance with no date

Editorial team
Sep 213 min read


Huoy Meas, the Khmer singer Sihanouk compared to Edith Piaf
Singer and Cambodia's leading radio host, Huoy Meas drew her songs from her own life. She disappeared in Battambang, living under a false name

Editorial team
Sep 174 min read


History & Exhibition: Vann Nath, beyond the walls of S-21
Until 11 October, Bophana Center in Phnom Penh shows the canvases of S-21 survivor Vann Nath, alongside archive recordings of the painter discussing his own work

La Rédaction
Sep 153 min read


Cambodia & Music : Liev Tuk, the Khmer artist who sang like James Brown
Compared to James Brown and Wilson Pickett, Liev Tuk was the soul voice of Cambodia's golden age. Only a few songs and a handful of images survive

Editorial team
Sep 154 min read


At SOSORO Museum, Colin Grafton recalls his Cambodia before 1975
Over 70 people at the SOSORO Museum for Colin Grafton’s book on Cambodia from 1972 to 1975, a photographer who left ten days before the Khmer Rouge

La Rédaction
Sep 113 min read


Yol Aularong, the Forgotten Rebel of 1970s Khmer Rock
He never got a statue, or a street named after him. Yet among vinyl collectors around the world, one name keeps resurfacing whenever the conversation turns to Cambodian rock of the 1960s and '70s: Yol Aularong. Far from the sentimental ballads that made stars of Sinn Sisamouth or Ros Serey Sothea, this fiery artist forged a style all his own — biting, ironic, almost punk before its time. His story, largely left in the shadows, deserves to be told.

La Rédaction
Sep 73 min read
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