Unesco proclaimed it an intangible cultural heritage in 2003 and says it takes dancers "years of intensive training" to ...

In this June 20, 2018, photo, Princess Norodom Buppha Devi, eldest daughter of the country's late King Norodom Sihanouk, attends the cremation ceremony of her sister in-law, Ouk Phalla, in Phnom Penh, ...

Cambodian-American Khmer classical dancer and choreographer Charya Burt has brought Rebirth of Apsara back to Cambodia to ...

In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive footage shows an apparently amiable man dressed in black sitting for an ...

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In 1989, ten years after the fall of the genocidal regime of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979, under the leadership of Pol Pot), Cambodians still found themselves engulfed in violence. Hundreds of thousands ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia — The sun sets, the stage lights turn on, and the conversations pause. We line up along the railings of the traditional Khmer wooden house, looking down from the stilted patio, and ...

PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Cambodia's centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge's "Killing Fields" regime, but a handful of artists managed to keep it alive ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — It's the only dance troupe trained to bless and dedicate Cambodian temples, including the iconic 12th-century Angkor Wat temple complex, the largest religious monument in the ...

ST. CHARLES — For Paul Cravath, Cambodia conjures up images of beauty and death. Cravath, a native of Chatfield, arrived in Cambodia during the 1975 war that is the subject of the film, "The Killing ...

In 2015, artist Prumsodun Ok formed Cambodia’s first all-male and gay-identified Khmer dance company -- in his living room. Part of his mission was to support the revival of an art form all but ...