Cycle of vengeance
Kosal Path
Fear of revenge explains Cambodia’s season of political repression.
Category: Cambodia
The water people
Abby Seiff
Dams, climate change and overfishing are changing Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake
Monsieur Angkor
Aedeen Cremin
Scholar, author and gentle giant Claude Jacques has passed away.
Facing the end
Jodie DeJonge
The inside account of the final days of the Cambodia Daily.
River politics
Andrew Wells-Dang
Can anything be done to stop the rush of hydroelectric dams being built on the Mekong?
The Tribunal
Alexander Hinton
Putting the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in the dock.
Riding the bamboo
Brent Crane
In the north-west of Cambodia, a foreigner finds his home.
Light as air
Michelle Vachon
I was warned about interviewing Cambodia’s greatest architect, Vann Molyvann.
The past isn’t past
Sebastian Strangio
Why America should forgive Cambodia’s war debt.
Watching the watcher
Julia Wallace
Cambodians are turning to social media to keep an eye on their political masters.
Khmer ways
Jack Weatherford
Who wrote the only surviving written account of the Khmer Empire?
Monumental
Aedeen Cremin
The brilliant career of archaeologist Pascal Royere
I am the Five
Miguel Jerónimo
The “Adhoc five” might be behind bars, but they’re not forgotten
Power and democracy
Sebastian Strangio
Hun Sen and his party have won every election since 1998
Borderlands
Vu Duc Liem
The true history of the Cambodian-Vietnamese border.
Unfinished business
Erik W. Davis
Cambodian politics are fundamentally nationalist.
Made in Cambodia
Robert Horne
As Malee jumped down from the tuk-tuk she felt the clamour all around her …
Dark mess
Alasdair Richards
Noir is a genre of fiction that delivers so little
Sopheap rises
Reaksmey Yean
Pich Sopheap is Cambodia’s most celebrated contemporary artist.
Ghost stories
Robert Horne
Spirit belief is still prevalent among young Cambodians
Who is Duch?
Antonia D. Bryan
Duch ran a well-oiled machine. He processed people, personally approving every confession.
Khmer new wave
Stefanie Sellon
The golden age of Cambodian architecture
Sre Ambel
Jeff Kisseloff
For McCallum, it wasn’t enough just to write about the environment
Dancing with Perséphone
Larry Strange
Khmer dance was once seen as purely decorative
Meet Kill
Sebastian Strangio
When Kem Ley’s murderer was asked for his name, he offered a chilling sobriquet: Meet Kill.
Damming the Mekong
Michael Buckley
Vietnam lies at the wrong end of the Mekong River.
The Bangkok plot
Luke Young
William J. Rust sheds new light on postwar Cambodia
Regeneration
George Chigas
A new generation of Cambodian writers are given voice in English in Modern Literature of Cambodia
Cambodian vérité
Daniel Mattes
The sixty-ninth Cannes Film Festival premiered Cambodian director Davy Chou’s first feature film, Diamond Island.
Songs of survival
David Hutt
‘”I survived the Khmer Rouge, I survived the Soviet Union, and I survived cancer,” says Cambodian composer Him Sophy
Sok sa bai
Nguyen Qui Duc
A trip down the Mekong River becomes surreal
Chat Tomuk
Mekong Review
The long-awaited Heng Samrin autobiography
When genocide starts
Minh Bui Jones
The éminence grise of the Cambodian genocide
From teacher to torturer
Philip Coggan
At S-21, Duch was responsible for the torture and death of some 14,000 people
Politics and patronage
Robert Turnbull
Personal patronage keeps the Cambodian arts alive
Wrong season dengue
Kim Philley
Dengue fever may become one of this century’s most devastating pandemics
Duras, mother and Cambodia
Penny Edwards
The life and work of Marguerite Duras
Victor’s justice
Minh Bui Jones
The international defence counsel-cum-Khmer Rouge fellow traveller
Cambodia’s lost literary life
George Chigas
Cambodia’s first Khmer-language literary journal
This old house
Kevin Doyle
Since this house was built, Cambodia’s name has changed half a dozen times