Cambodian master classical dancer Penh Yom walks between her teenage students, painstakingly adjusting a bent-back finger ...
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Khmer Empire: Rise, glory and fall

The Khmer Empire was one of the most powerful and advanced civilizations of the medieval world, ruling much of Southeast Asia for over 600 years. Centered around Angkor, it engineered massive temple ...
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 ...
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 ...
Khmer Rouge guards killed babies by battering them against trees under an official policy to ensure the children of the brutal Cambodian regime's victims could never take revenge for their parents' ...
The Greater Lowell Community Foundation has announced the recipients of the inaugural Arts Elevate: Arts Equity Grants. Nine ...
Driven by a deep love for the Pali Khmer language and a desire to pass on his ethnic culture to the younger generation, for ...
The genocidal nightmare of the Khmer Rouge finally came to an end on 7 January 1979, 39 years ago this month. Evidence mass of graves and some of the worst crimes of the 20th century were soon ...
In times of national crisis, whether due to war or any force majeure issues involving religious leadership, Khmer Buddhist ...
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 ...
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 ...