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, ...

Viet Nam News | Preserving Khmer drum dance Young people of the Khmer ethnic community in Vietnam's An Giang province are learning to preserve a centuries-old drum dance known locally as the ...

Khmer classical dance is renowned in Cambodia for its graceful hand gestures and stunning costumes. But the centuries-old art form, which survived the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, is now under threat ...

GENEVA (25 August 2025) – UN experts* today expressed serious concern over reports of escalating repression against Khmer Krom Indigenous Peoples in Viet Nam, including human rights defenders, ...

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 ...

Among the Khmer people, there is a saying: “Khmer children can sing and dance before they learn to read or write.” To them, music and dance are sacred bridges between the human and the divine. Of all ...

Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by UNESCO to its World Heritage List. The three locations were inscribed to the ...

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 ...

In Long Beach, city with the largest diaspora of Cambodians in the US, people dance, eat and reflect on the 1975 killings “Sousdey chnam thmey!” a rider shouted in Khmer into a megaphone while sitting ...

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