Khmer Magazine

Dy Saveth has been in the national spotlight ever since she won Cambodia’s first beauty pageant in 1959. She has acted in around 100 films in the intervening period, but it would have been many more had her career not been interrupted by the Khmer Rouge in 1975. That she was able to resume her [...]

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 [...]