Cambodian master classical dancer Penh Yom walks between her teenage students, painstakingly adjusting a bent-back finger ...

Come next year, the University of Washington (UW) may no longer teach Khmer, the Cambodian language. The university is considering cutting the hard-won language program in the wake of federal funding ...

The New Khmer Architecture movement emerged in post-independence, pre-war Cambodia. It was characterized by its consideration of traditional Cambodian culture. Today, architects are trying to preserve ...

Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged. The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after ...

In times of national crisis, whether due to war or any force majeure issues involving religious leadership, Khmer Buddhist ...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office returned two Khmer artefacts to representatives of the Cambodian government on 26 March. The two stone sculptures were recovered as part of a larger criminal ...

When a soldier from Surin, Sisaket or Buriram dies, mourning is quiet. Families grieve in villages. Funerals are modest.

The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy ...

Tourists who wander Cambodia’s Killing Fields don’t just encounter the ghosts of victims. Even today, scraps of clothing and bone fragments belonging to some of the 1.7 million people slaughtered by ...

Reporting from Pailin Province, Cambodia — Consulting a Bible app on his smartphone, Norng Chhay pulled up his favorite passage from the book of Matthew. “‘Do not judge others, and you will not be ...

The three top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have faced their first day in a U.N.-backed court, accused of crimes against humanity, genocide and terrible brutality that led to the deaths of about ...

PHANOM DONG RAK, Thailand -- As an olive-green military ambulance drove into the compound of a low-rise rural hospital, repeated booms of artillery fire from nearby Thai army positions shattered the ...