March 22, 2016
“Yuon is the name given by Kampuchea's people to the Vietnamese since the epoch of Angkor and it means 'savage,’” wrote Saloth Sar,...
Art
March 17, 2015
Cambodia—synonymous with paradoxical ideas: ‘Pearl of the East,’ ‘war,’ ‘Kingdom of Wonder,’ ‘genocide,’ and ‘Land of Smiles’—where deep...
Reportage
March 9, 2015
PHNOM PENH — Marathon efforts to prosecute Pol Pot's surviving henchmen have never been short on controversy. "Too late," "too long," and "...
Opinion
March 15, 2014
Sam Rainsy’s recent long-winded editorial in the Phnom Penh Post lamenting the negative connotations affixed to the word “yuon,” the Khmer...
Literature
November 2, 2011
Aranyaprathet smells of overripe pineapples and mangy dogs. Beside Hiroji's guesthouse, a woman tries to sell him Buddha heads. She tugs at...