Fifty years after the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge rebel army, the events of April 17, 1975 continue to cast a long shadow over Cambodia and its political system. Emerging from the bloodshed and chaos of the spreading war in neighbouring Vietnam ...

December 2, 1979 was the founding Day of the National Solidarity Front for the Development of the Cambodian Motherland’, led by Senate president Hun Sen (centre), Heng Samrin, Chea Sim and many other patriots, to overthrow the Khmer Rouge regime. - FB via PPP/ANN

In July 2025, Thai and Cambodian forces fought their deadliest clash in more than a decade, killing at least 38 people and displacing 300,000 before a Malaysian-brokered ceasefire. Border disputes persist not only due to nationalism and colonial legacies ...

On Friday, Cambodia’s government announced that its Cabinet had approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities carried out by the communist Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s. The bill stipulates “the prosecution of any ...

The Cambodian government formally reached out to the family of Emma C. Bunker, an art historian who died in 2021 and who sat on the board of the Denver Art Museum, for her records and archival materials, the Denver Post reported.

Cinema can "preserve history, influence mindsets, and provide a space for reflection and escape," says the Cambodian auteur and "chronicler of his country’s traumas and gradual social recovery." By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor Rithy Panh, the ...

Some cookbooks don’t just provide recipes; they tell stories—and Nite Yun’s My Cambodia: A Khmer Cookbook is a perfect example. Yun discovered the rich history of her Cambodian-American heritage in the kitchen,