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  • Cambodian documentary wins Cannes prize

    Psy impersonator fools Cannes festival stars A documentary using small clay figures to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh's family perished under the Khmer Rouge regime won the top prize in the second most important competition at the Cannes film festival. L'Image Manquante (The Missing Picture) was among the 18 films that premiered in the Un Certain Regard category ...

  • Documentary on Khmer Rouge hell wins award at Cannes

    A documentary on relatives wiped out in the Khmer Rouge's tyrannical grip on Cambodia in the 1970s earned Cambodian-French director Rithy Panh a major prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Entitled "L'Image Manquante" -- "The Missing Picture" in English -- the 95-minute work earned the top award in the festival's "Un Certain Regard" ...

  • Cambodian film on familys experience under Pol Pot wins Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize

    CANNES, France - A French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival. To rousing applause, director Rithy Panh collected the award at a ceremony Saturday night, expressing his gratitude to be able "to have the freedom to ...

  • UN Cambodia envoy rejects bias claims - Radio Australia

    The UN special envoy on human rights to Cambodia has rejected accusations he is biased towards the country's political opposition.Professor Surya Subedi finished his ninth mission to Cambodia today. The president of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee, Om Yentieng, has said Professor Subedi's is biased and his views are inaccurate.Professor Subadi says he does not agree with Mr ...

  • Cambodia a rising star with a falling reputation - just-style.com

    Cambodia's reputation as a standard-bearer for apparel x - and yet the country is a rising star when it comes to attracting foreign investment and increasing ...


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Movie Review

Le Samouraï [DVD]

Le Samouraï [DVD]

Le Samoura was the second of Jean-Pierre Melvilles color films, but it very well could have been shot in black and white. The desaturated colors of the Parisian streets and the grayish walls of the interiors suggests a moral gray zone, a place in which the characters drift and occas ... ...

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  • Cambodian sugar lacking spice riches

    ensures a higher market value for specialty produce. According to a report from Cambodia's Commerce Ministry, "A GI product must have a specific quality linked to the characteristics of its geographic production zone and must have a well-established reputation among consumers in connection with this origin." GI registration also requires farmers to use natural manure in ...

  • Death of a killer in Cambodia

    By Sebastian Strangio PHNOM PENH - Ieng Sary, a veteran member of Cambodia's communist Khmer Rouge movement and one of the few of its leaders to be put on trial for crimes committed during the regime's 1975-79 rule, died on Thursday morning at the age of 87. He was being tried at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a United Nations-backed tribunal, along ...

  • Bike firms saddle up onlow Cambodian wages

    By Michelle Tolson PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's export business is in the process of changing due to shifts in manufacturing in Asia. A business publication in the country has reported unexpected growth in the "machinery and transport equipment" sector and speculated it was as "probably bicycles". But when Cambodia jumped into the top 10 exporters of bicycles to the ...

  • Monarchic manipulation in Cambodia

    Monarchic manipulation in Cambodia By Geoff Gunn The survival of the monarchy in Cambodia is little short of remarkable in the light of that country's modern history. French manipulation of the monarchy and attempts to buttress religion and culture alongside the rise of nationalist youth and Buddhist radicalism was an important precursor to postwar events. No less momentous for ...

  • More to US-Cambodia relations than rights

    By Vannarith Chheang A meeting between US President Barack Obama and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on November 19 took on added significance given the backdrop of the 21st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, which was held in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh in the same week. Focusing on human rights, fundamental political freedoms, and electoral democracy in ...

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