California claims some of the largest Cambodian enclaves in the U.S., with a population of roughly 9,000 people living in the Bay Area alone. On April 4, Oakland will toast its local Cambodian culture ...
A series of atrocity sites of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been formally entered onto the World Heritage list, as part of the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee. This is not only ...
The three Cambodian sites’ inscription coincides with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power of the brutal regime Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and ...
Three notorious locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites to perpetrate the genocide of Year Zero five decades ago have been added to UNESCO’s World ...
Following the war in Vietnam in the 1970s, thousands of people immigrated to the Bronx, including many fleeing the Khmer Rouge communist regime. Moui Nguyen and Choeum Chy were among those who made ...
Hundreds of Cambodians marked the Day of Remembrance by attending a ceremony honouring victims of the Khmer Rouge at one of the "killing fields". Cambodia on Tuesday marked 50 years since the ...
PHNOM SROK, Cambodia — 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 labor camp. "At the ...
Fifty years after the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge rebel army, the events of April 17, 1975 continue to cast a long shadow over Cambodia and its political system. Emerging from the bloodshed ...
Mean Loeuy (centre), survivor of a Khmer Rouge labour camp, telling his story to a group of children during the outreach programme at a school in Phnom Srok district in Banteay Meanchey province. - ...
"At the beginning we shared a bowl of rice between 10 people," recounts the 71-year-old man who lost more than a dozen family members during Cambodia's bloodiest era. "By the end, it was one grain of ...