Michelle Vachon
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The Monks Community Forest — a battlefield jungle turned nature preserve
Story told in a film released Monday to mark Remembrance Day. → Read More
Remembering New Khmer Style and Vann Molyvann’s Legacy
With the White Building nearly razed, there are few remaining structures in central Phnom Penh attesting to the city’s past as a showcase for the sinuous forms of New Khmer Architecture. → Read More
Forever Foreign
Many have viewed Vietnam as Cambodia’s arch-enemy, a consequence of history. In the wake of such hostility, ethnic Vietnamese who call Cambodia home are forever seen as strangers. → Read More
For Archaeologists, a Dream Find at Angkor Park
Archaeologists are typically happy to find pottery shards when they excavate a site in Angkor Archaeological Park as too many centuries have passed and too many cities have risen and collapsed for them to expect to find major objects in the ground. → Read More
Production Honoring Victims of Conflict to Get Global Tour
A highly ambitious stage, music and film production conceived as a way to honor the victims of Cambodia’s civil war and Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s—unveiled in Phnom Penh on Thursday—will be on a scale hardly ever seen for a Cambodian project. → Read More
Cambodia’s Selfie Obsession Reflected in Black Comedy Film
For a person obsessed with taking selfies, having his or her arms forever stretched to get one’s own portrait, what would be the ultimate nightmare? → Read More
Return To War
Twenty years ago next week, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen toppled First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh after days of factional fighting in Phnom Penh → Read More
In Surreal Images, Artist Speculates on Berliners’ Inner Lives
Looking at Oeur Sokuntevy's work, in an exhibition that opens tonight in Phnom Penh, one ventures beyond the ordinary to perceive the flow of life, and the energy of people’s ideas and imagination, which they tend to hide behind impassive stances. → Read More
Outdoor Art Fair in Battambang to Showcase City’s Artists
Street art can come in many different forms. In Battambang this weekend, it will take on a more literal meaning with an outdoor art fair allowing visitors to stroll in the open air and enjoy artworks on display. → Read More
From Penh to Paper: Artist Revives City’s Architectural Past
Stuart Croxford is an artist. He’s also a qualified architect. Combining these two talents has enabled him to depict Phnom Penh’s buildings in a unique way, capturing the beauty with the eye of an artist and the precise lines with an architect’s mind. → Read More
Sex, Lies, Tragedy: Classic Yike Explores Duplicity in Musical
The theater director, staging a performance of the story of “Kakei” in musical theater yike on Sunday night in Phnom Penh, hopes to challenge the centuries-old notion that the protagonist is a “bad girl.” → Read More
Film Competition to Help Young Generation Grapple With History
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal has been present in the lives of Cambodians for more than a decade. But the views of young people about the process—which has cost nearly $300 million since it started in 2006—are not often heard. → Read More
Quite a Stretch: Three Provinces Will Hold Global Yoga Day Events
Cambodia will celebrate the International Day of Yoga this month with a series of events held in three provinces. → Read More
How Cambodians Shape Their History Through the Present
Sunday’s commune elections have already become part of the nation’s history. But beyond what observers and journalists will say or write about it, and the analyses historians and researchers will make in the years to come, the story of what happened and its effect on the country will soon be part of Cambodia’s “social memory.” → Read More
Portraying Cambodia, Art Spans Worlds of Politics and Nature
This is one of the inspirations behind “Deep in the Wood,” an exhibition of artworks conceived by Mr. Seyha and his fellow artist Bor Hak that opens today in Phnom Penh. → Read More
Independent Election Monitor Will Dispatch 15,000 Observers
Come voting day on June 4, at least 15,000 independent observers recruited by the Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel) will be on duty at polling stations to ensure that voters feel free to cast their votes as they wish. → Read More
NGO Cheers Opening of Animation Studio in Phnom Penh
Visitors to the Institut Francais tonight will be met by life-size cardboard characters inspired by the 2D animations and illustrations of Phare Creative Studio, a new social enterprise that helps fund NGO Phare Ponleu Selpak in Battambang City. → Read More
Exhibition Features a Lifelong Exploration of Artistic Styles
Karen Hartmann’s passion for art goes back to a memorable day in February 1963 when her father hauled her onto his shoulders so she could see, over the heads of thousands, a very special painting exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in her hometown, New York City. → Read More
Exhibition Features a Lifelong Exploration of Artistic Styles
Karen Hartmann’s passion for art goes back to a memorable day in February 1963 when her father hauled her onto his shoulders so she could see, over the heads of thousands, a very special painting exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in her hometown, New York City. → Read More
Keat Chhon: A Man for All Regimes
A rare politician, Keat Chhon retained favor with several regimes over a career spanning more than 50 years, through some of Cambodia’s most stormy times → Read More