Forty years after King Sihanouk’s attempt to challenge Cannes and Berlin with his own Phnom Penh International Film Festival, Cambodia’s film industry is languishing and cinemas are closing across the country.
A lack of funding, trained personnel and especially a shortage of creative ideas mean the industry is developing at a snail’s pace, Western experts say.
But [...]

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BEING an entertainer in Cambodia is a high-risk proposition for women, particularly those who attract the attention - and advances - of rich and powerful men. The entertainment industry is rife with tales of women who, after allegedly engaging in adulterous affairs with high-profile men, were targeted by vengeful wives in plots involving acid attacks [...]

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Phnom Penh municipality has plan over the next four years to implement project worth US$10 million in order to illuminate the city’s main monuments and the line more than 500 km of the capital’s boulevards and streets with streetlights in an attempt to attract tourists.
The French lighting company, Citelum, created master plan and has cooperation [...]

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In a country where the film industry used to be embodied in the person of the King, the idea of rebuilding the culture of cinema from the bottom up may seem just a bit out of place. But that is exactly what CamboFest organiser Jason Rosette is trying to pull off.
The second CamboFest festival, which [...]

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In perhaps the most iconic sequence in the history of silent films, a bespectacled man played by Harold Lloyd dangles from a clock on the side of a skyscraper. Holding onto the clock hands for dear life, he tries desperately to climb up the building to reach the girl as the clock face begins to [...]

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According to the English-language newspapers, daily new Khmer newspaper, named Khmer Nation News, will be launched on January 12 with eight pages, covering the human rights, corruption, land grabbing, and general injustices in Cambodia. The newspaper had already been granted permission from the Ministry of Information.
“I am prepared already to lose around $3,000 to $4,000 [...]

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