Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (5 Sep. 1788, Paris - 2 June 1832, Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry, Seine-et-Marne [of cholera]), a pioneer in French sinological studies who held the first chair of Chinese studies at Collège de France in 1814, takes a significant place in Khmer studies as the first Western… Read more

An education and entertainment channel presenting Khmer legends and tales in Khmer language. Read more

Kitagawa Takako 北川香子 is a Japanese researcher who studied at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Tokyo. In 2005, she published her research 'Kampot of the Belle Époque: From the Outlet of Cambodia to a Colonial Resort'. With a special interest in Cambodian pre-modern… Read more

Jean Moura (3 Apr 1827, Moissac, France - 17 May 1885) was a French Navy officer, civil administrator, Khmerologist and explorer who authored one of the first exhaustive descriptions of Cambodia and Angkor, Le Royaume du Cambodge (1883).While lieutenant de vaisseau (Lt.) Moura was thrice the… Read more

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Sophie de Mullenheim (b. 1974) is a prolific author of children's books, working with French and American publishers. Among the 200-plus books she authored are The Phantom of the Colosseum; The Big Book of Christians Around the World; The Life of Jesus According to St. Luke; The Catholic Faith… Read more

Chhang Youk (1961, Phnom Penh) is the Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC CAM), the first Cambodian organization (launched in 1997) aiming at bringing "memory, justice and healing"to the Kingdom after the dark years of Khmer Rouge repression and civil war.A survivor of… Read more

Lewis Rowell (b. 1933) is an American professor of Music and Musicology, a fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Rockefeller Foundation, and the author of several books and articles on time and rhythm, the music of India, and the philosophy of music. Prof. Rowell was a faculty… Read more

Rainer J."Arjay" Stevens (b. April 1945, Bingen, Germany) is an independent photographer and researcher who has been covering Cambodia's cultural and artistic heritage since the mid1990s.. A bioscientist and pharmacist by trade, Arjay Stevens developed a passion for p, hotography since childhood.… Read more

A French official in Indochina, Albert Tricon (1867, Marseille - ?) served as "Président de la Cour d'Appel" (President of the Appeal Court) in Saigon, "Procureur du Tribunal de 1ere instance" (Public Prosecutor) in Phnom Penh , and as "Conseiller a la Cour" (King's Counsel) in Cambodia. He was… Read more

Bala Devi Chandrashekar is a Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher, and a professor of practice in Asian Performing Arts based in the USA, with an iinterdisciplinary approach involving performing, lecturing, teaching and intense research. Prof. Chandrashekar has performed ('Padmavati An Avatar' being… Read more

Dr. Nancy Dowling is a Southeast Asia Art consultant and a retired professor of South and Southeast Asian Art at the University of Hawaii in Manoa. In 1995 she became a member of a multi-disciplinary team of University of Hawaii and East-West Center scholars, who conducted archaeological fieldwork… Read more

Dr Wanrug Suwanwattana is a Lecturer in French Language and Literature at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, after completing her PhD at the University of Oxford (Merton College). She is working on fin-de-siècle French literature and Indochina, focusing on… Read more

Alfred Meynard (11 Sep 1881, Marseille, France - 12 June 1951, France) was a French publicist and writer close to Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO), a contributor to Courrier ďHaiphong, L'Avenir du Tonkin (of which he was editor-in-chief) , La Revue indochinoise and Extrême-Asie, covering… Read more

Vong Sotheara វង់ សុធារ៉ា (b. Kompong Cham province) is Head of the Department of History and Professor of Khmer Inscriptions and Cambodia-Southeast Asian history at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Cambodia.With a post-graduate diploma in Tourism Development (RUPP, 2002), a MA in Tourism… Read more

Henri Parmentier (3 Jan.1870, Paris -22 Feb. 1949, Phnom Penh) was a French architect, art historian and archaeologist, one of the first European specialists in the archaeology of Indochina. He has documented, depicted and preserved many Khmer, Cham and Lao monuments.Head of the EFEO in Cambodia… Read more

The son of Gaspar do Couto and Isabel Serrão Calvos, Diogo do Couto (Lisbon, 1542- Goa, 1616) studied Latin and Rhetoric at Saint Antão College, and philosophy at the convent at Benfica. In March 1559, he traveled to Portuguse India with the Armada of Pero Vaz de Sequeira, took part in the Surat… Read more

Head of research at the National Museum of Asian Arts (Musée Guimet) in Paris, Thierry Zéphir is also a professor at the École du Louvre, where he teaches courses on India and the countries of the Indianized world. Since 1991 he has regularly taught students at the Phnom Penh Faculty of… Read more

Phon Kaseka ផុន កសិកា is a Cambodian archaeologist who had conducted excavations in Cambodia since 1999, and the Director of the Institute of Humanities at the Royal University of Cambodia.His unpublished MA Thesis (Phnom Penh, 2002) considered the Ancient Kiln Site at Cheung Ek. He has been… Read more

Ethnologist Jacques Népote (14 Jan 1943, St-Nazaire d'Aude, France - 26 Jan 2006, Roissy) discovered Cambodia when he was sent to Battambang as a volunteer for the French Cultural Cooperation Service. Three years later, he came back all the way from France by car and started a prolific academic and… Read more