Cambodia News: Khmer

Angelina Jolie has found a powerful voice as a director. It's time we ...
The Guardian
Angelina Jolie, with Loung Ung, Cambodian activist and co-writer of her latest film, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.
Auckland filmmaker's animation captures refugee dad's life under Khmer RougeNewshub
Angelina Jolie's 'First They Killed My Father' Is Ambitious but Boring ...The Ringer (blog)
Oscars: Angelina Jolie's 'First They Killed My Father' Named Cambodia's Foreign Language EntryDeadline
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Long Beach's Khmer community marches to decry crackdown on ...
Long Beach Press Telegram
Nearly 300 members of Long Beach's large Cambodian community gathered at City Hall on Saturday to exercise their right to free speech — the same right ...
How Cambodia's Teflon Leader Made A Career Of Blaming AmericaForbes
Hun Sen demands US Ambassador's clarificationsKhmer Times
Cambodia Cooperating With US on Deportations, Foreign Ministry SaysRadio Free Asia
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New Effort to Honor Khmer Krom Fighters Allied With US in Vietnam War
Voice of America
Ethnic Cambodians living in South Vietnam, the Khmer Krom of Task Force 957, Mobile Guerrilla Force (MGF), were “fun to be with,” he recalls, “and they were vicious.” They weren't a well-known force, during or after the war, and for years Yedinak has ...

Khmer Krom & Hmong: Vietnam's Largest Graft Case in History Unearths Social Injustices Towards Minorities
UNPO
Meanwhile, national minorities such as the Khmer Krom and Hmong continue to suffer under widespread abuse, discrimination and social injustice. For instance, the prevalence of malnutrition among these minority group is twice as high as for the ...

Prahoc to go international
Khmer Times
A small community in Siem Reap province's Chong Kneas commune is adamant about getting global recognition for their unique fermented fish paste, or prahoc, after the government endorsed a national standard for the most distinctive ingredient in Khmer ...

What you need to know before watching Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father
Radio Times
The Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge, emerged from the country's struggle against French colonisation in the 1940s. The movement was emboldened by the relative success of the first Indochina war, which saw ...
Angelina Jolie's new film on the Khmer Rouge is impeccably made, but will it get under your skin?Los Angeles Times
Angelina Jolie's new Cambodia movie is powerful but Hollywood can never escape itself entirelyThe Conversation UK
First They Killed My Father depicts genocide through a child's eyesAV Club
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'This Is Their Film': Angelina Jolie Tells A Story Of Khmer Rouge Survival
NPR
The film First They Killed My Father begins in 1975 Cambodia, during the rise of the Khmer Rouge. The hard-line communist regime aimed to deport an entire nation into the countryside and form an agrarian utopia — but their experiment failed. People ...
Angelina Jolie directs a historical drama about the Khmer RougeThe Boston Globe
Angelina Jolie on her Cambodian epic and the power of familyABC News
Review: In Angelina Jolie's New Movie, a Child's-Eye View of WarNew York Times
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New website aims to educate youth on Khmer Rouge regime
Khmer Times
The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) launched its new multimedia website on Friday, specifically aimed at educating and informing Cambodia's youth about the Khmer Rouge regime. The website is aimed at shedding light on Cambodia's ...

How the nation became a graveyard for democracy
Khmer Times
Is Khmer Times too free-thinking? Time to go to a re-education camp. KT: Do you think the upcoming election will be free and fair? Mr Sophal: No, it will not be free and fair. They've never been except for 1993. They are already the un-freest and un ...
Cambodia Daily Newspaper To Close After 24 YearsNPR
Cambodian opposition leader arrested and accused of treasonTelegraph.co.uk
Cambodia Daily newspaper closes in government tax rowBBC News
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Khmer Rouge-era Rape Cases Remain Taboo Topic, Justice Elusive for Survivors
Voice of America
One evening in 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge forces had taken control of Cambodia, some of the cadres came to Taing Kim's village in Boribo district of Kampong Chhnang Province. The cadres inspected each household, and Taing Kim and her ...