Constructed over a twenty-three-year period, it was one of two rival Khmer Empire capitals – the other being Angkor – and was the sole capital from 928 to 944 CE. Established by King Jayavarman IV, ...

A push to teach Thai, Khmer and Vietnamese in Malaysian schools has left parents questioning why the government is overlooking more marketable minority languages such as Mandarin and Tamil for ...

On April 17, 1975, soldiers of the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge rolled into the capital astride tanks, toppling the US-backed republican army of Lon Nol and starting a four-year communist government.

They reflect the Khmer people’s ingenuity, technical skill, and profound knowledge. According to the An Giang Museum, over a hundred years ago, in an era when printing technology was limited, Khmer ...

Her interest is deeply intertwined with her family’s history, particularly the traumatic experiences her mother endured during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. When a figure from the past ...

At 91 years old, Mai Huyen has spent nearly a quarter of a century creating a unique home adorned with thousands of stupas, bas-reliefs, and Buddha statues - an effort to preserve the rich spiritual ...

Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labour camp. "At the beginning we shared a ...

Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said this includes Thai, Khmer, and Vietnamese, in an effort to promote deeper intra-Asean collaboration. "Asean strength lies in... Please join the Malaysiakini ...

Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its genocidal rule were forbidden from praying before victims' skulls. On April 17 ...

Under the Khmer Rouge, more than 1.7 million Cambodians, roughly a quarter of the population, were killed by execution, torture and starvation between 1975 and 1979 before the regime was overthrown.

In conversation with Enze Han, Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Public Administration of the University of Hong Kong, Professor Mertha will explore the surprising endurance of the ...