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

Come next year, the University of Washington (UW) may no longer teach Khmer, the Cambodian language. The university is ...

Reporting from Pailin Province, Cambodia — Consulting a Bible app on his smartphone, Norng Chhay pulled up his favorite passage from the book of Matthew. “‘Do not judge others, and you will not be ...

The New Khmer Architecture movement emerged in post-independence, pre-war Cambodia. It was characterized by its consideration of traditional Cambodian culture. Today, architects are trying to preserve ...

Douglas Latchford was a leading scholar of Khmer antiquities. But he was also charged with smuggling. Cambodian deputy Prime Minister Sok An shakes hands with British Khmer art collector Douglas ...

Despite the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under their brutal regime, only five top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have ever been charged. The U.N.-backed tribunal was formed decades after ...

Tourists who wander Cambodia’s Killing Fields don’t just encounter the ghosts of victims. Even today, scraps of clothing and bone fragments belonging to some of the 1.7 million people slaughtered by ...

The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy ...

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, ...

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 three top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have faced their first day in a U.N.-backed court, accused of crimes against humanity, genocide and terrible brutality that led to the deaths of about ...

In the four years that the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century. The brutal regime, in power from 1975-1979, claimed the lives of up to ...