Khmer architecture, with its profound sense of harmony, grandeur, and spirituality, stands as one of Southeast Asia’s most enduring cultural...

During Pchum Ben, Cambodia’s annual festival for honoring ancestors, food offerings are made to Buddhist monks in the hope of...

Among the many political forces that have shaped Cambodia’s modern history, none has been as enduring, dominant, and ambivalent as...

Pchum Ben (Khmer: ភ្ជុំបិណ្ឌ) is one of Cambodia’s most significant and deeply spiritual festivals, rooted in Buddhist belief and the...

Cantor's turtle ​(Khmer: សត្វកន្ធាយក្បាលកង្កែប kânteay kbal kâng-kaep), once thought extinct in Cambodia, survives in the Mekong River, where ongoing conservation...

Palm sugar, known in Khmer as "ស្ករត្នាត" (skâ tnaot), is among Cambodia’s most celebrated traditional products. Made from the sap...

The oxcart (Khmer: រទេះគោ ro-the kô) in Cambodia is a traditional wooden cart pulled by oxen, used for centuries by...

Émile Gsell (1838-1879) participated in at least three scientific expeditions, and the images he produced from the first, to Angkor...

Introduction The S'aoch people (Khmer: ស្អូច) represent one of Southeast Asia's most unique and endangered ethnolinguistic groups, residing primarily in...

Khmer people often like to use figurative expressions. For example, in the case of a bounced check, they refer to...