Yutkromkhorm – which translates to “the art of war” in the Khmer language – was born out of the numerous wars fought by the ...

The city, which dates back to the late 12th century, was the last capital of the Khmer Empire, established by King Jayavarman ...

With stone ruins near a natural spring, the sprawling Vat Phou temple complex is a less visited archaeological wonder in Southeast Asia.

Historians aren’t sure of the exact reason for the decline of the Khmer Empire in the 15th century. Growing conflicts with other regional powers, climate change involving long droughts followed ...

Constructed over a twenty-three-year period, it was one of two rival Khmer Empire capitals – the other being Angkor – and was the sole capital from 928 to 944 CE. Established by King Jayavarman IV, ...

Cambodia's foreign policy is driven by its need to survive between its larger neighbours, Thailand and Vietnam, while ...

Restored in the 1940s, the 12th-century Banteay Samre, devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu, recalls the medieval Khmer Empire at its height. The temple is cloistered inside two sets of concentric ...

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia, most of whose people consider themselves descendants of the ancient Khmer Empire. But painful memories still endure of the ...

Arina relaxes in Kampong Phluk. A day at the local school in Kampong Phluk.

Although relatively short, the tenure of Jayavarman IV (reigned A.D. 928–941) as king of ancient Cambodia’s Khmer Empire (ninth to fifteenth century A.D.) was nonetheless eventful. One of the ...

Bunthav is among 20 young Cambodians at an open-air club in Krong Areyksat training in the ancient Khmer combat martial art of Yutkromkhorm. The practice was largely forgotten after many of its ...

In a small Cambodian town near the banks of the Mekong River, law student Oeun Bunthav tenses his slender torso and steels himself for an elbow strike to his head. Bunthav is among 20 young ...