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

When a soldier from Surin, Sisaket or Buriram dies, mourning is quiet. Families grieve in villages. Funerals are modest.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Students are leaning into learning more about the Hmong and Khmer cultures and languages. The pages of books are coming to life in Padao Thoa's class this summer. Students are ...

The Greater Lowell Community Foundation has announced the recipients of the inaugural Arts Elevate: Arts Equity Grants. Nine ...

People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans. Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by UNESCO to its World Heritage List. The three ...

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

PHANOM DONG RAK, Thailand -- As an olive-green military ambulance drove into the compound of a low-rise rural hospital, repeated booms of artillery fire from nearby Thai army positions shattered the ...

The US Senate unanimously approved the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025 on December 10. The bill renews and expands the original 2016 legislation, which is set to expire in 2026, ...

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

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On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country’s long civil war might finally be over. But what followed was one of the worst ...