Dy Proeung ឌី ព្រឿង (16 June 1939, Kandal - 22 March 2020, Siem Reap) was a Cambodian architect and sculptor who worked as a draftsman for EFEO and Angkor Conservation from 1961 to 1975 and founded in 1994 the Miniature Replicas of Angkorian Temples រូបចម្លងខ្នាតតូចនៃប្រាសាទអង្គរ, a garden museum… Read more

Christopher Goscha is a Canadian historian specializing in the history of the Cold War in Asia as well as colonization and decolonization in the Afro-Asian world, and a professor of international relations, the Vietnam Wars, and World History at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) since 2005. He… Read more

Rai Bahadur [honorific title] Valaiyattur Venkayya (1 July 1864, Valaiyattur, Madras Presidency – 21 Nov.1912, Mambalam, Chingleput District, British India) was an Indian epigraphist and historian specialized in South Indian languages and scripts, who particularly studied the origins of the Pallava… Read more

Heng Samrin ហេង សំរិន [b. 25 May 1934, Anlong Chrey Village, Ponhea Kraek District, Kampong Cham Province] is a Cambodian politician, the longest-serving statesman since after the ousting of the Khmer Rouge, to which he contributed by leading the anti-Khmer Rouge resistance inside Cambodia and in… Read more

Xenia Zarina born June Zimmerman (1903, Wisconsin, USA – August 15, 1967, Mexico City) was an American dancer and dance instructor who studied in depth the classic dances of Southeast Asia, India and Japan.The daughter of Russian-born emigres whose father, Oliver Brunner Zimmerman, was a professor… Read more

Non Dara is a Cambodian linguist, Associate Professor at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris) since 2021, specializing in Khmer language and linguistic teaching.With a BA in French literature and… Read more

Dr. Bachchan Kumar is an Indian researcher specializing in art, history and culture of South-East Asia, in charge of the South-East Asian Studies Department, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi, from the 1990s to the 2020s.A recipient of the Indian Archaeological Society's Prof. A. K.… Read more

Walter Koditek is (b. 30 Nov. 1964, Emmerich, Germany) is a German urban planner, author and photographer who has been working and living in Asia since 2006, settling in Siem Reap in 2024 after spending the years 2014-2023 in Hong Kong.After graduating at Technical University Berlin, Walter Koditek… Read more

Nguyễn Thế Anh (1 June 1936, Thakhek, Laos - 19 March 2023, Toulouse, France) was a Vietnamese historian specializing in modern history of Vietnam - in particular the Nguyễn dynasty - and its relations with neighboring countries. Certified professor of history in 1963, Nguyễn Thế Anh served as… Read more

Adrian Vickers is an Australian author, historian and professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney specializing in Indonesian language and cultural history, in particular Gambuh dance traditions, Panji stories, Balinese art, as well as historiography, colonialism studies and… Read more

Elizabeth Becker (b. 28 Oct. 1947) is an American author, a former journalist who has covered international affairs since 1973 when she became a stringer for the Far Eastern Economic Review and later The Washington Post and The New York Times in Phnom Penh as one of the few women reporters in the… Read more

Henri Turot (24 Feb. 1865, Bar-sur-Aube, France - 3 June 1920, Paris 16) was a French journalist and photographer who traveled across Southeast Asia - including Phnom Penh and Angkor - and South China in 1899, and co-founded in 1904 a small news agency, L'Agence Radio, taken over by Havas Agency in… Read more

Arthur Llewellyn Basham (24 May 1914, Loughton, England, – 27 January 1986, Calcutta [mod. Kolkata], India) was a British historian, Indologist, author, and a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London in the 1950s and the 1960s where he taught several future noted… Read more

Hiroaki Sato [Sato Hiroaki] 佐藤 紘彰  (b. 1942, Taiwan) is a Japanese poet and translator who has been living in New York since 1968, the president of the Haiku Society of America from 1979 to 1981.Educated at Doshisha University, Kyoto, after his family fled back to Japan at the end of WWII, and in… Read more

Robert Joseph 'Bob' Casey (14 March 1890, Beresford, South Dakota, USA – 5 Dec. 1962, Evanston, Illinois, USA) was a decorated combat veteran and Chicago-based newspaper correspondent and columnist who covered both World War I and II in Europe, Africa and the Pacific, a born story-teller of Irish… Read more

Sumet Jumsai na Ayudhya สุเมธ ชุมสาย ณ อยุธยา 书梅 春塞 (b. 30 March1939, Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai architect, visual artist and author, National Artist of Thailand in 1998, the designer of some 200 contemporary buildings in Thailand including the headquarters of the Bank of Asia (The Robot… Read more

Long Seam ឡុង សៀម [or Long Siem; Лонг Сеам in Russian]  (15 July 1935, Thla Village, Kampong Thom Province - 15 July 2007, Phnom Penh) was a Cambodian historian, philologist and specialist of Khmer epigraphy who was instrumental in the revival of Cambodian cultural research from the 1980s and… Read more

Jean-Michel Gallet (b. 18 November 1947, La Bassée, France) is a consultant in agricultural development who has been working for French NGOs in Africa, Eastern Europe and across Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia) for nearly four decades, visiting Cambodia for the first time in… Read more

Nithi Aeurisvongse นิธิ เอียวศรีวงศ์ [or Nidhi ‘Īaosīwong, Nidhi Eeosewong] (23 May 1940, Chiang Mai – 7 Aug. 2023, Chiang Mai, Thailand) was a Thai historian, writer, and political commentator whose research focused on the way Thai power structure evolved "from "absolute monarchy to a monarchy… Read more

Pierre [Peter] Fabricius (23 Apr. 1912, Berlin, Germany -20 Dec. 1988, Moulins, France) was a Sanskritist, Indianist and Khmerologist who spent 24 years in Cambodia (1950-1974) as an educator and independent researcher.After three years at Heidelberg University studying Sanskrit under Prof.… Read more