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“Since childhood, I’ve studied Khmer language and Buddhist teachings in the pagoda, and they’ve remained deeply rooted in my soul,” Huyen recalled. “In 2000, I began building this stupa house to honor ...
Sophal Ear, a Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child, reflects on 50 years since the murderous regime took ...
The regime may be long gone, but its legacy lives on in the institutions, behaviors, and fears that continue to shape ...
A push to teach Thai, Khmer and Vietnamese in Malaysian schools has left parents questioning why the government is overlooking more marketable minority languages such as Mandarin and Tamil for ...
Her interest is deeply intertwined with her family’s history, particularly the traumatic experiences her mother endured during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. When a figure from the past ...
Cambodia marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge's march into Phnom Penh, though survivors of its genocidal rule were forbidden from praying before victims' skulls. On April 17 ...
Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labour camp. "At the beginning we shared a ...
Thousands of Cambodian and ethnic Khmer people from the Bay Area and beyond made their way to Stockton’s Wat Dhammararam Buddhist Temple, the largest in the state, for a three-day New Year ...
The Long Beach City Council, under Mayor Rex Richardson and District 6 council president Suely Saro, have expressed their support for Kun Khmer by presenting a certificate of appreciation to the Kun ...
The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest chapter in Cambodia's history, committing one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. More than two million people were killed during their four ...