Culture

Cambodian Gov’t Complains to Amazon Over ‘Angkor Wat Toilet Products’

The Apsara Authority, which oversees the running of the Angkor Wat Temple Complex, said the “ignominious” products should be removed from the site.

Preservation Hall: Home to American Jazz

Presidents, prime ministers and Hollywood stars have visited - what from the outside - may look like an old and shabby jazz club in New Orleans. VOA Khmer's Phy Sopheada narrates.

‘Our Ancestors’ Graves have been Drowned’: Cambodian Dam Wipes Out Hill Tribe Way of Life

Some 860 families from various indigenous minorities lived for generations near the rivers in northeast Cambodia until a Chinese-backed dam flooded the area.

Documentary Filmmaker Focuses on Cambodia’s Martial Art

Canadian filmmakers Mark Bochsler and Sandra Leuba talk with VOA Khmer’s Chetra Chap about the making of “Surviving Bokator” and the place of bokator in Cambodian culture and today’s Cambodia.

Step by Step: Phnom Penh Marching Band Takes Setbacks in Stride

On Cambodian Independence Day, King Calls on for National Unity and Reconciliation

Some 25,000 government officials, civil servants and members of the security forces took part in the annual event in Phnom Penh.

Documentary Film on Cambodian Martial Art ‘Bokator’ to Screen in Philadelphia

Cambodia’s Baha’i Temple Aims to Reach, Serve More

There are an estimated 6 million Baha’is worldwide, including several thousand in Cambodia, where the faith first carved out a foothold in the 1920s, said Hou Sopheap, the Baha’i House of Worship’s director.

Museum Focused on Peace and Reconciliation Opens in Battambang

Dr. Soth Plai Ngarm, a peace activist and the founder of the museum, said the project would use photographs and other art forms to help visitors interpret conflict through a different lens.

In Photos: First Baha’i Temple in Cambodia Hopes to Bring Peace and Unity

The first Baha’i temple built in Battambang province, Cambodia, lives up to its international reputation by providing a safe space for Cambodian as well as foreign worshipers of any religion to worship their god freely, be it, Christ, Mohammad or Buddha.

Veteran Cambodian Artists to Tour US East Coast Cities