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.        Another great and very exciting event of the year has arrived! Many Cambodians grasp that opportunity! The exhibition of the golden area of Cambodia’s film industry during the 1960s and 1970s has started since 17th October at 6pm at Chinese House, located along the riverside. Unique and Fresh.     The owner of

What do you know about Cambodia? I didn’t know much before I got here, to be honest. We’ve been in South-East Asia for six weeks now — a month in Thailand, and just two weeks in Cambodia, and the country has me totally flummoxed. We started off in Siem Reap, the town famous for the

Even though I was born in Cambodia, one of the South East Asian countries, I still feel ‘touching one’s head and receiving anger in return’ is quite a culture shock. Several times, I have touched my friends’ head lightly to show friendship, but they took it for offense. I heard that for westerners, they do

Many people have just heard about child or woman trafficking, but IRIN new agency had a report about Cambodian males who have been trafficked to some countries for labour. Men have just been recognized as trafficked victims. […Kou Channyyon’s story is typical of many young Cambodian men. Desperate for work, he was trafficked to Malaysia

Last night, I had a chain of horrible dreams. I was left trembling after the last sequence of my dream. I couldn’t remember all of them nor understand how it could appear. It was something I always dread seeing. How gruesome and bloody it could be. I dreamt of a Cambodian man sexually abusing or

Produced by 60 students given film instructions by Davy Chou, film “twin diamonds” will probably be the first movie encouraged to be screened for the public. The screening will be honorably joined by the Minister of Information and several famous Cambodian film-makers of the past (1960s) such as Dy Saveth, Ly Bun Yim, Ly You

« The Twin Diamonds » is the first film totally written, shot and edited by 60 Cambodian students from more than 6 schools in Phnom Penh. The schools are Mith Samlanh, the Department of Media and Communication (DMC) of the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Reyum Art School, Lycée Français René Descartes, the Royal University

  VIHEAR SUOR, CAMBODIA – More than a thousand of Cambodians gather in a village, northeast of the capital Saturday for annual water buffalo races to end the country’s festival for the dead.The buffalo races mark the last day of Pchum Ben, a three-day festival in which Cambodians believe their dead ancestors emerge to walk