A push to teach Thai, Khmer and Vietnamese in Malaysian schools has left parents questioning why the government is overlooking more marketable minority languages such as Mandarin and Tamil for ...

Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said this includes Thai, Khmer, and Vietnamese, in an effort to promote deeper intra-Asean collaboration. "Asean strength lies in... Please join the Malaysiakini ...

On April 17, 1975, soldiers of the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge rolled into the capital astride tanks, toppling the US-backed republican army of Lon Nol and starting a four-year communist government.

Her interest is deeply intertwined with her family’s history, particularly the traumatic experiences her mother endured during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. When a figure from the past ...

At 91 years old, Mai Huyen has spent nearly a quarter of a century creating a unique home adorned with thousands of stupas, bas-reliefs, and Buddha statues - an effort to preserve the rich spiritual ...

Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labour camp. "At the beginning we shared a ...

Under the Khmer Rouge, more than 1.7 million Cambodians, roughly a quarter of the population, were killed by execution, torture and starvation between 1975 and 1979 before the regime was overthrown.

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 ...

Srey Chanthorn, president of the Kun Khmer International Fight (KKIF) club, has successfully secured official recognition of the term “Kun Khmer” by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The first of its ...