At the heart of this festival lies a distinctive New Year’s Eve ritual - one that does not follow a fixed midnight moment. Instead, the transition between the old and new year is determined through an ...

From left: Khana Desen, Victoria Ung, Channa Sath, Rancia Phin and Sophorl Ngin as the white swans in the third act of "A Khmer Swan Lake." (Courtesy James Higgins) On a blustery spring evening, ...

Recent achievements have created momentum for the new year to begin with hope for a more prosperous and sustainable life. The roads leading into Khmer villages are clean and clear. On both sides of ...

Cambodia has secured the return of 74 Khmer cultural objects formerly held by the family of notorious British art dealer Douglas “Dynamite Doug” Latchford, marking one of the country’s largest single ...

Merrimack Repertory Theatre will present A Khmer Swan Lake, a groundbreaking adaptation of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, in collaboration with the internationally recognized Angkor Dance Troupe (ADT). The ...

UN human rights experts on Monday condemned what they described as escalating repression against the Khmer Krom people in Vietnam, urging authorities to cease targeting minority communities through ...

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 ...

This post was updated April 29 at 11:27 p.m. United Khmer Students’ 27th annual culture night merged dance, music and theater for a night of remembrance and Khmer resilience. UKS has been fostering ...

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Cambodians quietly remembered the 50 th anniversary of Pol Pot’s march into Phnom Penh on April 17 as Chinese President Xi Jinping touched down on a “goodwill” visit, which irritated many, given it ...

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 celebration ...

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 ...