Laura Mam is one of Cambodia's biggest pop stars, but she wasn't born or raised in the country. She's American, and even though both of her parents are originally from Cambodia, she hardly spoke a ...

VannDa continues to push Khmer music onto global stage PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has reached a new chapter in history: one where its culture is spreading to neighbouring countries and attracting growing ...

LOWELL — Arn Chorn-Pond watched his siblings starve to death. His parents died under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. His teacher did not make it. About 90 percent of Cambodia’s artists did not survive ...

Eli Carlton-Pearson, 18, sits cross-legged on a kgray, the wooden- slat bed common in Cambodia, and wails out an improvised blues tune on his homemade guitar, fingers flashing like sparks across the ...

When Bay Area singer-songwriter Laura Mam asked her mother to translate lyrics into Khmer, it was as if she had laid a bridge between worlds. Mam knew her parents had fled the Khmer Rouge — a ...

Unless one is visiting a place with a large expat Cambodian population – such as Long Beach, California – it is almost unheard of to hear a Khmer language song played during large festivals and ...

Many of the old images in Bochan Huy's "Chnam Oun 16" music video are haunting — fleeting, grainy footage of workers in rural Cambodian labor camps and Phnom Penh's crumbling shops and streets, ...