A Multi-Art Event Concludes the Chakto Program in Phnom Penh

Fouad Boussouf, choreography mentor, is photographed with senior dancers during a workshop of the NGO Cambodian Living Arts. Photo provided PHNOM PENH — Coming up with an art production that will fascinate people—whether music, comic strip or...

Interview of the Week: Thomas Bianco, Country Manager, Cambodia - Cigar Divan Cambodia, The Pacific Cigar Company

03 October, 2025 Posted by: EuroCham Cambodia For this week’s interview, Communications Officer Henry Henderson sat down with Thomas Bianco, Country Manager, Cambodia - Cigar Divan Cambodia, The Pacific Cigar Company, the company behind Cohiba...

Cambodia Charts Path to Clean Energy Economy at Annual Summit

Under the theme “Unlocking a Clean Energy Economy”, Clean Energy Week held from October 2 to 9, brings together stakeholders to showcase how clean energy will drive Cambodia's economic competitiveness and industrial growth. Photo: provided PHNOM...

Cambodia and Brunei Eye Muslim Tourism Growth

Brunei's Tourism Minister, Abdul Manaf Metussin, and Cambodia’s Minister of Tourism, Hout Hak, discussed future cooperation at the ASEAN Tourism Ministers’ Briefing on September 28 in Malacca in Malaysia. Photo by Ministry of Tourism PHNOM PENH –...

Cambodia Pushes for Regional UNESCO Center

Suos Yara, chairman of the Asian Cultural Council (ACC), delivers a speech during the peace and culture session of the UNESCO World Conference on Culture Policies and Sustainable Development 2025, on September 30 in Barcelona, Spain.Photo from...

Laura D. Minasyan: Bridging Cultures — Armenian, Khmer, Swedish, Russian

And yet you were drawn to distant, unexplored horizons. To go to Leningrad and study such a rare language as Khmer! What did knowledge of Khmer give a young Armenian woman? Yes, I went to apply to Leningrad University — but not for journalism, for...

Cambodia Urges OHCHR’s Engagement in Securing Unconditional...

AKP Phnom Penh, October 02, 2025 -- The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) today sent a follow-up message to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) regarding the unlawful detention of 18 Cambodia soldiers...

Cambodian Minister Warns Against Cultural Amnesia, Citing It...

AKP Phnom Penh, October 02, 2025— Cambodia’s Minister of Culture and Fine Arts issued a stark warning: a nation that abandons its culture loses its identity, and a secure future can only be built upon the foundation of the past. H.E. Dr. Phoeurng...

Avoiding Another Sihanoukville: Why Cambodia’s Coastal Provinces Must Transform Into A Blue Economy Hub

This photo taken on September 26, 2022 shows a motorist passing a building previously shut down by the police, in Sihanoukville in Preah Sihanouk province. Photo by AFP Cambodia’s coastline, once a lifeline for generations of fishing and farming...

Cambodian Education Minister Lauds Don Bosco Foundation's Ro...

AKP Phnom Penh, October 02, 2025 -- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, H.E. Dr. Hang Chuon Naron, has commended the Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia for its significant partnership in delivering equitable and...

Malaysia to miss three top women golfers at 2025 SEA Games

MALAYSIA will compete in the 2025 SEA Games in Thailand without three of its leading women golfers. Malaysian Golf Association president Tan Sri Mohd Anwar Mohd Nor confirmed Jeneath Wong, Wang Xin Yao and Fong Zi Yu are unavailable due to their...

Advancing patient safety for children: building safer systems from birth

In this interview, News Medical speaks with Laís Junqueira, Quality, Patient Safety and Innovation Manager at Elsevier, about patient safety challenges in pediatric care, the importance of system-level thinking, and innovations supporting safer...

Anutin signals to Cambodia: Thailand ready to close border indefinitely

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul revealed the outcomes of the National Security Council (NSC) meeting on Thursday, October 2. He stated that three main issues were considered, and in principle, the framework for constructing the Thai-Cambodian...

Scholars and Sangha Convene in Kalmykia for International Buddhist Forum

From asianews.it The third International Buddhist Forum, themed “The Buddhist World in the New Millennium,” convened on 25–28 September in Elista, capital of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia, drawing scholars, monastics, and delegates from 35...

Floods kill 19 in Cambodia from July to September: report

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Mekong River floods and flash floods in other places had killed 19 people in Cambodia from July to the end of September 2025, a disaster control report showed on Thursday. The floods battered parts of 20 cities and...

44 Cambodians arrested for sneaking across Sa Kaeo border

Thai troops and border patrol police on Thursday morning arrested 44 Cambodians for allegedly sneaking across the Sa Kaeo border in search of jobs in Thailand. Troops from the Burapha Taskforce and police from the Sa Kaeo border patrol taskforce...

Wing Bank Launches Miniapp for Seamless Ticket Booking and Lifestyle Services

PHNOM PENH--Wing Bank is redefining the digital banking in Cambodia with the launch of Miniapp, a new feature inside the Wing Bank App that lets users book tickets for concerts, events, and attractions, all while managing their finances in one...

Soon, you can fly directly from India to Cambodia

IndiGo is set to launch direct flights between Kolkata and Siem Reap, marking the first-ever direct connection between the two cities beginning on 13 November, 2025. Until now, there have been no direct routes between India and Cambodia. In...

Visions of resistance: women fighting to save their homeland – in pictures

The theme of this year’s Women By Women exhibition, Rooted in Resistance, is to showcase images of women defending their land and communities from destruction – by powerful people and corporations or the climate crisis. The pictures, taken by...

Lightning strikes kill 40 people in Cambodia in first 9 months of 2025

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Lightning strikes had killed 40 people in Cambodia in the first nine months of 2025, down 26 percent from 54 deaths over the same period last year, a disaster control spokesperson said on Thursday. "Among the dead so...