Fukuoka Grand Prize 1997 awardee, Chheng Phon (6 Mar. 1930, Kompong Cham - 22 Dec. 2016, Takhmao) was a prominent Cambodian dramatist and professor of history of art. After the civil war, he was a leading force in the restoration of Khmer culture and arts, particularly in his capacity of Minister… Read more

Marie-Alexandrine Martin (1932-2013), affectuously nicknamed Mam, was a botanist and ethnologist who, as a CNRS researcher (and later Director of the CNRS Research Center), conducted ethnobotanical, ethnolinguistic and sociological fieldword across Cambodia in the 1960s and 1970s. Between 1965 and… Read more

Colleena Shakti is a sacred dance performer based in Rajasthan (India) and Greece.As a teacher, founder of the Shakti School Dance, and as a performer wishing to bring together yoga practice and entertaining folk or court dance, Colleena has been a major actor on the Rajasthan cultural scene,… Read more

Doctor in hydrology, HANG Peou is Deputy Director General of APSARA Authority. He has extensively studied the hydraulic system of Greater Angkor, its relation with the Tonle Sap and the ancestral irrigation system. He leads APSARA Management Program: research on the natural resources and the… Read more

Prince Tisavarakumarn, the Prince Damrong Rajanubhab (สมเด็จพระเจ้าบรมวงศ์เธอ พระองค์เจ้าดิศวรกุมาร กรมพระยาดำรงราชานุภาพ) (21 June 1862, Bangkok, Kingdom of Siam – 1 Dec. 1943, Penang, Malaya?), known as Prince Damrong, a reformer, founder of the modern Thai educational system and provincial… Read more

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Dr. István Zelnik (1950-) is a former Hungarian diplomat in Vietnam (1970) turned businessman and art collector. More than 1,000 of the Istvan Zelnik Collection's 50,000 Southeast Asian artefacts were on public display in Budapest from 2011 to 2013, when the Southeast Asia Gold Museum was closed… Read more

Maurice Glaize (26 Dec. 1886, Paris – 17 July 1964, La Rochelle) was a French architect and archeologist, Conservator of Angkor from 1937 to 1945.Architect-in-chief of Saigon from 1930 to 1934 (where he lived with wife Louise Carlier), he became a permanent member of EFEO in 1936 and took over the… Read more

A professor of Economics at Harvard University "in another life", Dr. Jacques de Guerny is an independent researcher and a member of the French Société Asiatique.He has studied the Buddhapada artworks or sites across Asia, including Cambodia, and authored L'odyssée des tambours de bronze de l'Asie… Read more

Potuguese historian Vanessa Loureiro is a consultant and executive officer with several companies and institutions. To her MBA in History from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and a doctorate from Paris I University (Panthéon Sorbonne), Vanessa Loureira added masters in management and finances from the… Read more

Capitaine (Captain) Marie Joseph Auguste Baudesson (15 March 1867, Paris - ?) was a volunteer in the French army deployed in Tonkin, where he studied and photographed the Moi, the Cham and other ethnic minorities.An exhibition of his work, 'Two years among the Moi', was held in Hanoi in 1902.… Read more

Derek Hamilton is an environmental archaeologist and research fellow of the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, University of Glasgow.His research focuses on the use of Bayesian statistics in the modelling of absolute and relative dating evidence, thus providing a framework within… Read more

Bernard Rollet is a world-know French forest researcher and botanist who has authored numerous studies, in particular on Cambodian and West Indies flora.A retired Inspecteur Général des Eaux et Forets of France, and a member of Paris Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Bernard Rollet has studied the… Read more

Eleanor Mannikka lived and taught in Venezuela for many years before locating permanently in Michigan, where she teaches Southeast Asian art at the University of Michigan. She published her first work on Angkor Wat in 1976, coauthored an article in Science magazine, and has had her work featured on… Read more

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