KONG Vireak is the director of Cambodia National Museum since 2012.After studying and training in archaeology, with five years spent on excavation sites in Angkor area, Vireak Kong undertook anthropological studies in France. Formerly Deputy Director and Director of the Royal University of Fine… Read more

A graduate from Kentucky University and University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shawn Fehrenbach is an archeologist specialized in ceramics.He currently leads PaleoWest, a US firm for high-quality solutions-oriented archaeological consulting services. Read more

Donald M. Stadtner (b. 1947) was for many years an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Texas, Austin, after receiving his Ph.D in Indian art at the University of California, Berkeley. He was first in Burma in 1979, followed by visits in the 1980's sponsored by the Smithsonian… Read more

May 4, 1950 — August 27, 2019 San FranciscoStephen O. Murray, Ph.D., a San Francisco-based sociologist, anthropologist, and independent scholar, died August 27, 2019 from an aggressive lymphoma. He was born and raised in Minnesota. Steve's publications include studies in sociolinguistics, the… Read more

Lecturer in religious studies at Stanford University with a PhD in Buddhist - Studies (University of California-Berkeley), Trent Walker is currently Director of Preservation and Lead Scholar of the Khmer Manuscript Heritage Project, Buddhist Digital Resource Center, aimed at digitizing over 10,000… 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

Nicolas Weber is a researcher in Southeast Asian studies, specializing in Cham ancient and modern history. With a PhD in Asia-Pacific Studies from Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO, France), he was a visiting lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies,… Read more

Established 2020, opened to the public in 2022. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Read more

Lieutenant-de-vaisseau (French Navy Lieutenant) Marie Joseph François Garnier (in Vietnamese, Ngạc Nhi) (25 Jul. 1839, Saint-Étienne - 21 Dec. 1873, in action during the Hanoi siege) was one of the first French explorers to extensively write about Cambodia, the Mekong River, Indochina, Tibet and… Read more

William Marsden (16 November 1754, Verval, County Wicklow – 6 October 1836, London) was an Irish orientalist, numismatist, and linguist who served as First Secretary to the Admiralty during years of conflict with France, and commented The Travels of Marco Polo (1818), with annotations that brought… Read more

Cheltenham-born and bred, Andy Brouwer (1959, UK) made his first trip to Cambodia in 1994, and that white-knuckle ride hooked him for life. He upped sticks to Phnom Penh in 2007 after more than thirty years in banking back in the UK to join Hanuman Films.As well as having a serious obsession in… Read more

Jules Roy (30 Jan. 1844, Trépillots, France - 5 March 1914) was a French historian, a professor at Ecole des Chartes and Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), and a close friend of Charles Mouhot, Henri Mouhot's brother. He published numerous historic essays, including L'An Mille (1878), Du role… Read more

Ariane de Saxcé is an archaeologist and a Research Associate for South and Southeast Asia with Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI, Bonn, Germany) and University of Paris III Sorbonne.Her specialization area is the archaeology of South Asia and the Indian Ocean, with an emphasis on maritime… Read more

A Scottish surgeon, colonial administrator, diplomat, and author who served as the second and last Resident of Singapore, Dr John Crawfurd (13 Aug 1783, Islay, Scotland – 11 May 1868, London, UK) visited Siam and Cochinchina in 1821-1822, during a diplomatic mission commandited by the… Read more

Jean Ajalbert (pen name Ajalbert) (10 June 1863, Levallois-Perret - 14 Jan 1947, Cahors, France) was a journalist, lawyer and writer active in French Indochina from 1903 to the Second World War. He famously criticized the action of École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), arguing that the school… Read more

Dr. Ujjwala Anand Palsuley (b 29 Apr, Maharashtra, India) is a Conservation Architect in the field for over 20 years as a Practitioner, Researcher, and Academician, who has worked on various World Heritage Sites for UNESCO’s nominations and conducted Workshops, Research & Projects in 16… Read more

Yuthlert Sippapak ยุทธเลิศ สิปปภาค  (b.. 8 Nov. 1966, Loei, Thailand) is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for genre-blending films Killer Tattoo (comedy and action) and Buppah Rahtree (comedy and horror).After studying fine arts and interior design at Silpakorn… 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

Isabella Stewart Gardner (14 April 1840, New York City, USA – 17 July 1924, Boston, USA) was a leading American art collector, philanthropist, and an eclectic patron of the arts who founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, USA, in 1903, and visited China, Southeast Asia and Cambodia… Read more

Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury (8 July 1811 – 5 March 1895) was an English barrister and politican, the auhor of a two-volume History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire (1879) that was lauded as "admirable" at the time for its… Read more