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In Cambodia, artists carve out space for quiet resistance

Arts, Culture & Media

Dissent, in the form of activism or journalism, is stifled in Cambodia. But artists there are finding subtle ways to tackle controversial topics from environmental devastation to rapid urbanization. 

A woman seen washing pots and pans

Despite lack of govt loans for college in Cambodia, these students are making it work

The price of higher ed
cambodia street scene before elections

‘Death of democracy’ in Cambodia after elections

Global Politics
A blue sign showing two politicians stands next to an intersection in a city, where a woman is waiting to cross the street. The signs are written in Cambodian.

As election nears, Cambodia opposition says it’s been silenced

These are the Oscar contenders for Best Foreign Language Film

Arts, Culture & Media
Director Rithy Panh uses clay figurines to represent Cambodians in his Oscar-nominated film memoir "The Missing Picture". It's about his boyhood memories of living under the Khmer Rouge from 1974 to 1978. Panh lost almost every member of his immediate and

‘The Missing Picture’ is the first Cambodian film to make it to Oscar night

Arts, Culture & Media

Cambodian director Rithy Panh will be in Los Angeles for the Oscars on Sunday. His film, “The Missing Picture,” is the first film from Cambodia ever to be nominated for an Academy Award. It’s Rithy Panh’s own personal memories of spending four years of his childhood living in a labor camp under the Khmer Rouge, watching as almost every member of his family died.

Garment workers holding Molotov cocktails after clashes broke out during a protest in Phnom Penh on January 3, 2014.

Cambodian police shoot and kill protesters during national strike by garment workers

Conflict & Justice

Cambodian police have killed at least three people during protests by garment workers in the nation’s capital, Phnom Penh. Garment workers have launched a national strike to demand higher wages. Kate O’Keeffe of the Wall Street Journal says there is a political dimension to what’s going on as well.

Are volunteer programs empowering — or exploitative?

Development & Education

If you serve as a volunteer, you know that it can feel good to devote your time to assisting others in need. But do you ever feel that you’re performing a job that deserves a paycheck? Volunteers around the world weigh in.

A musician strums the pin, the Cambodian harp, during a rehearsal in Phnom Penh.

Cambodia works to revive an ancient harp, plucked from a temple wall

Arts, Culture & Media

How do you make an instrument relevant that hasn’t been heard for hundreds of years? A French ethnomusicologist is recreating Cambodian instruments that vanished centuries ago.

Study finds alarming number of men in 6 Asian countries don’t think rape is rape

Health & Medicine

A new study from the United Nations out last month revealed startling attitudes toward sex and sexual violence in six countries across the Asia Pacific region. In one example, the study revealed that 25 percent of the men studied in Cambodia admitted to having committed rape.