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STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 16, 2023 • 4 min read
In Partnership with 1

International filmmaker takes aim at Cambodian hip hop

By Stew Post • Mar 16, 2023
The new video for Ruthko’s single “Stay the Same,'' is an international collaboration that gives audiences a taste of Phnom Penh’s wild side

STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 18, 2022 • 2 min read
In Partnership with 1

Revamped Oktoberfest returns to Cambodia’s capital

By Oktoberfest Cambodia • Nov 18, 2022
The much-loved and long anticipated German-Cambodian festival makes a post-pandemic return to Phnom Penh for 10 days of celebration, starting from the 25 November

Oct 20, 2021 • 8 min read
Music

16 years on Danish band still rocks Cambodia’s airwaves

Danish band Michael Learns to Rock became the first international act to visit the Kingdom in decades. Their pop hits continue to resonate among a generation of adoring fans
By Anton L. Delgado • Oct 20, 2021

Mar 20, 2020 • 10 min read
Cambodian rock

Cambodia’s ‘diva of the rice fields’

On March 20, 2018 Cambodia lost one of its great musicians when Cambodian Space Project frontwoman Kak Channthy was killed in a traffic accident. Two years on, her friends and family reminisce about the singer's life
By Miriam Deprez • Mar 20, 2020

Nov 25, 2019 • 8 min read
Myanmar music scene

The last day of pleasant music

From our print archive: In 2013, in a former military dictatorship known for quietening most forms of freedom of expression, the music scene got a whole lot louder
By Douglas Long • Nov 25, 2019

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Dec 10, 2018 • 5 min read
Opinion

Rapping against dictatorship

An exiled Thai academic writes that the response by the military junta that rules Thailand to the recent viral video sensation by the group Rap Against Dictatorship is a sign of things to come
By Giles Ji Ungpakorn • Dec 10, 2018

Oct 13, 2017 • 7 min read
Whatever happened to

Myanmar’s Tiger Girls?

Touted as Myanmar’s answer to the Spice Girls and a potent symbol of change in the country, the Tiger Girls made a huge splash in international media around the turn of this decade. Four of the five are back and finally tasting local fame in a country now more equipped to deal with their spirited ways
By Sean Gleeson • Oct 13, 2017