Khmer classical dance has endured over a millennium in Cambodia, surviving even the brutality and mass killings of the Khmer ...

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

Khieu Samphan, who was convicted by a U.N.-backed tribunal of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role as a leader of the communist Khmer Rouge when they ruled Cambodia in ...

The Khmer Empire was one of the most powerful and advanced civilizations of the medieval world, ruling much of Southeast Asia for over 600 years. Centered around Angkor, it engineered massive temple ...

Driven by a deep love for the Pali Khmer language and a desire to pass on his ethnic culture to the younger generation, for ...

A pre-teen girl with almond-shaped eyes, a wide nose, and thin mouth slightly agape looks down the camera’s lens. Her age is unknown, though she couldn’t be more than 12. She hasn’t a name ...

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

Premier Hun Sen’s continuing assertions that the destruction of Cambodia’s neutrality, the country’s “civil war,” Khmer Rouge genocide and the U.S. B-52 bombings of Cambodia, were the outcomes of a ...

For her, the trial of Khmer Rouge high-ups in the courthouse nearby means crowds of spectators who need to be fed. The 24-year-old woman, like many of her generation, has only a cursory knowledge of ...

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 ...

Nuon Chea, who served as Pol Pot's chief lieutenant during Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, has died at 93, according to a U.N. tribunal which found him guilty last year of war ...