Saveros Pou [ពៅ សាវរស Pou Saveros in Khmer, Saveros Lewitz in the 1970s-1980s] (24 Aug. 1929, Phnom Penh- 25 May 2020, Créteil, France) was a French linguist of Cambodian origin. A retired research director of the CNRS in Paris, a specialist of the Khmer language and civilization, she carried out… Read more

HM Norodom Sihanouk នរោត្តម សីហនុ (31 October 1922, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – 15 October 2012, Beijing, China) was the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and from 1993 to 2004. Affectionately known to the Cambodian people as Samdech Euv (សម្តេចឪ, Father Prince), he masterminded the independence from… Read more

Ambassador Julio Armando Jeldres (b. 1 Dec. 1950, Santiago de Chile) was a teenager in faraway Chile when, in 1967, he wrote directly to the King Palace of Cambodia wanting to know more about the fascinating Kingdom at the other end of the world. An epistolary relationship started, until the young… Read more

David Porter Chandler (b. 1933, New York City, USA) is an American historian and academic noted for his work on Cambodia's modern history - in particular French colonialism's impact on the Kingdom and later the 1970s-1980s civil war - with a deep connection to Cambodian oral and written… Read more