A new history project helps Cambodia take a tiny step toward confronting the murderous four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. As many as 2 million people died, but the era is barely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teacher shows photographes of former Khmer Rouge leaders as he teaches his students about Cambodia's "Killing Fields" era at a ...

Editor's note: there is a photo accompanying this release. The archaeology world is buzzing about recent discoveries in Angkor, which have revealed unprecedented insight into the Khmer Empire, the ...

"This volume outlines the evolution and development of one of the most splendid and long-lived civilizations of the entire Asian continent. Now most fully represented in northern Cambodia, the Khmer ...

CHALOEM PHRA KIAT, Thailand, April 7 (Xinhua) -- On the scorching Saturday afternoon, dozens of local Thai students dressing up like apsaras were dancing together on the stairway in front of the main ...

Pok Eang, of the Bokator Club, and another fighter practice grappling techniques at Angkor Wat against the backdrop of bas-reliefs depicting ancient Khmer warriors. - Photo: The Phnom Penh Post/ANN ...

Scholars of Khmer and Southeast Asian history are mourning the passing of professor Claude Jacques, a prolific academic of ancient stone inscriptions, who will be laid to rest today at the town chapel ...

A Cambodian research institute is offering free history classes on the Khmer Rouge to educate the public about the extremists who killed more than one million people. The classes are attended mainly ...

Standing next to cages that once housed political prisoners, former Khmer Rouge foot soldier Tho Lon gets a surprisingly sympathetic hearing from a clutch of students, despite his work for a regime ...