Apsara National Authority អាជ្ញាធរជាតិអប្សរា (ANA) is the official body in charge of the preservation of the Angkor Archaelogical Park, as well as the coordination of international research team in the fields of archaeology, ethnology and history.Created by the Royal Decree of February 19th 1995,… Read more

Thmey Thmey News is a Cambodian information company producing general interest programs in Khmer and English. Its channel Cambodianess focuses on contents in English. Read more

Vann Molyvann វណ្ណ ម៉ូលីវណ្ណ (23 November 1926, Ream – 28 September 2017, Siem Reap), a a leading Cambodian architect who largely contributed to the New Khmer Architecture movement, served as first Director of APSARA Authority, as well as Minister of Culture and of Education during King Norodom… Read more

João de Loureiro (1710, Lisbon - 18 Oct. 1791, Lisbon) was a Portuguese precursor in botanic, plant taxonomy and natural sciences. After joining the Jesuit order (Society of Jesus), he became a missionary in Goa and Macau before reaching Cochinchina (Annam) where he stayed (officially as a… Read more

Remi Morel is a documentary producer and film director specialized in cultural and history films. Director of audiovisual resources at La Villette Science Museum (Paris) and coordinator of the series Dynamo for the French-German cultural channel ARTE, screenwriter awarded by the European Script… Read more

Dr.Nai Pan Hla is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is the author of A short Mon History (Myanmar Knowledge Society, Yangon, 2013). Dr. Pan Hla has also published Eleven Mon Dhammasāt Texts (collected… Read more

Pauline Dy Phon ប៉ូលីន ឌី ផុន nee Tan (1933, Krav, Kompong Speu Province, Cambodia -21 May 2010) was a Cambodian botanist specialized in the flora of Southeast Asia. After graduating from the Paris Faculty of Sciences in 1959, Pauline Dy Phon taught at Phnom Penh Lycée Sisowath before becoming a… Read more

A self-made art collector and a Portuguese writer who has explored Oriental mysticism and esoterism, Francisco Capelo (1955, Lisbon) founded in 2001 the Museu da Marioneta (Museum of Puppetry) in the Convent of Bernardas, a rich collection of Asian and African masks and theater puppets, and one… Read more

William Robert Moore (15 Aug 1899, Butler, Michigan -22 March 1968, Washington, DC, USA) was a photographer and the chief of the foreign editorial staff at National Geographic during four decades. With a predilection for Asia, where he started to work in the early 1930s, he contributed to nearly… Read more

薄琳 BO Lin is originally from Hanshan, China and has lived in Cambodia since 2015. Two years after she graduated with a degree in law, she decided to focus on business and ran her own coffee shop at a university in Beijing. After moving to Cambodia, she began teaching Chinese, working as a… Read more

教授 (Jiaoshou, Professor) 段立生 Duan Lisheng (1944, Dali, Yunnan Province 大理市 云南), a descendant of the Duan Royal Family of Dali, is distinguished scholar in history of art, Siamese and Thai cultures, Southeast Asia and world architecture. Graduated from Beijing University in 1967 after studying… Read more

Pierre Benoit (16 July 1886, Albi – 3 March 1962, Ciboure, France) was a French novelist, screenwriter and member of the Académie française. Mostly known for his second novel, L'Atlantide (1919), that inspired several feature movies, he became a roving reporter in 1923 and visited various… Read more

Pascal Medeville (8 Dec. 1962) is a professional translator and a writer specialized in Chinese civilization and language. After studying Chinese and Khmer at INALCO Paris, and spending ten years in mainland China and Taiwan, he relocated to Cambodia, where he leads a professional agency and shares… Read more

Srong Channa (ស្រុង ចាន់ណា) is the founder of the online platform 5000 Years (៥០០០ឆ្នាំ), dedicated to make accessible important documents on Theravada Buddhism and Cambodian culture. The site was founded in 2011 with the approval of the Cambodian Ministry of Cult and Religion, and shares… Read more

Raymond Cauchetier (10 Jan. 1920, Paris - 22 Feb. 2021, Paris) was a self-taught photographer whose work, intimately vinculated to Angkor and Asia, is recognized as one of the major testimonies on culture and arts in the 20th century. As a stillphotographer, he also make live for ever actors and… Read more

Didier Fassio is a film director and writer, and a TV producer, who authored films about Angkor, in particular Le secret des temples d'Angkor (1996) and Angkor, l'aventure du Baphuon (2009). Read more

An Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, USA, Alison Kyra Carter researches the political economy and evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia. Other research interests include the archaeology of East and South Asia, materials analysis and… Read more

One of the first French planter and breeder in Cambodia, Octave Vandelet (1848?, Paris - 30 Sept. 1912, Phnom Penh) started to reside and work in Cambodia as early as 1872. A close confidant of Kings Norodom and Sisowath, Vandelet was the delegate for Cambodia to the Conseil Supérieur des Colonies… Read more

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863, Avon, France – 31 Oct. 1931, Paris) was a professional French explorer and photographer whose photographs of Indochina and Cambodia were widely published, often without his knowledge.After spending his youth in Algeria, opening a photographic studio in Algiers in… Read more

Joseph Gervais alias Alfred Raquez (1 June 1864 (?), Dunkerque - 9 Jan. 1907, Marseille, France) was a prolific writer, photographer, traveler and editor who vividly described China, Laos, Cambodia, Siam, Annam, and Java at the turn of the century.Declared bankrupt in March 1898 after some… Read more