Sarong Vit-Kory was born in 1982 in the Khao I Dang refugee camp in Thailand. Four years later, her family resettled in ...

Asia Society Hong Kong Center (ASHK) is proud to host a presentation and dialogue with Andrew Mertha, George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of ...

During a brutal four-year rule, the communist-nationalist ideologues of the Khmer Rouge killed between 1.6 million and 3 million people through executions, forced labor and starvation. It ...

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 bowl ...

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 ...

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.

The Khmer Rouge went on to write the darkest chapter in Cambodia's history, committing one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. More than two million people were killed during their four ...

Though Sing Sing was considered one of the best movies of 2024, I never got a chance to see the critically acclaimed A24 film on the big screen (or at all last year). Well, when I found out it was ...

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 ...

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.