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After a long dormant period, the past few years have seen steady growth in the development of Cambodian visual contemporary art. The Kingdom not only attracts international artists from different corners of the world but its own sons and daughters are increasingly entering the international art comm...

Over the past few years, construction in Cambodia has known an unprecedented growth. As the global economy goes into meltdown, the Cambodian volcano seems to have cooled off. Bad news for architects and designers? Not necessarily. We spoke to a number of professionals about their activities in Cambo...

When most people move home they leave their house where it’s standing, not so Darryl Collins, co-author of ‘Building Cambodia: ‘New Khmer Architecture’ 1953 to 1970’. When he moved from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap he took his newly acquired wooden house with him – piece by piece. Then he reassembled it....

With so many employers complaining about how difficult it is to find the right people, you might expect there to be fantastic opportunities out there for clever Cambodian graduates? Think again. Words by Johan Smits.

For many of us a New Year heralds a new start. For some, that involves a change of job or more drastically a new career. Is Cambodia a good place to try and translate those good intentions into reality? Johan Smits spoke to a few people in the field of human resources, to some employers and to a num...

Never before has Cambodia’s most celebrated monument served as a backdrop for a rock concert, Mark Eastty was one of the thousand people lucky enough to get a free ticket. Additional reporting by Mark Jackson. Photos by Nathan Horton.