On December 7th, performing artists, human rights activists, non-governmental organizations, and officials of the Royal Cambodian government will gather at Angkor Wat to focus world attention on the scourge of human trafficking.
A rock concert will be held at Angkor Wat, December 7th, in cooperation with MTV EXIT [End Exploitation and Trafficking], a project of the [...]
Cambodia And Human Trafficking
Cambodia’s first ever rock opera to premiere this month
PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Cambodia’s first-ever Broadway musical-style rock opera, which will incorporate Cambodian lullabies and Khmer Rouge propaganda songs, will premiere later this month, organisers said Tuesday.
“Where Elephants Weep,” a modern take on a traditional Cambodian love story that merges pop and rock music with more traditional and historical Cambodian tunes is scheduled to [...]
US rockers The Click Five to play Cambodia’s Angkor Wat
PHNOM PENH (AFP) — American rock band The Click Five plans to play a concert at Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat temple next month as part of a campaign to fight human trafficking, organiser MTV music channel said Monday.
The December 7 concert by the group, who are popular in Southeast Asia, is part of a series [...]
CULTURE-CAMBODIA: ‘We Don’t Have a Film
PHNOM PENH, Oct 6 (IPS) – Internationally acclaimed director Rithy Panh remembers how, as young boy in pre-war Phnom Penh, cinema played a central role in his family life.
“When I was young we had so many cinemas not like the situation now, and we used to go to the films all the time. Western, Indian [...]
Classical Musician Plays at Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, in Washington, hosted Cambodian classical musician Chum Ngek last week, to represent both Cambodian tradition and the state of Maryland.
At the center, he played three solos on his “roneat aik,” a kind of treble xylophone, and led the classical ensemble.
Chum Ngek is a recipient of the Bess Lomax Hawes [...]
In Cambodia, a rock ‘n roll revival
PHNOM PENH – Grainy black and white newsreel footage of B-52 bombing raids and fierce fighting are the images most frequently associated with Cambodia in the 1960 and early 1970s – not rock and roll, hot pants and wild dancing.
But when the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, emptying the cities and [...]
CULTURE-CAMBODIA: Pre-War Khmer Music Making a Comback
PHNOM PENH, Aug 17 (IPS) – Grainy black and white newsreel footage of B-52 bombing raids and fierce fighting are the images most frequently associated with Cambodia in the sixties and early seventies — not rock and roll, hot pants and wild dancing.
But when the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, emptying the cities and [...]
Cambodian artist brings works to RI
One of Cambodia’s few well-known artists, Chhim Sothy, will showcase his work in Yogyakarta for a month.
Sothy, whose works have been collected by several embassies and ministries in Cambodia and selected to be shown in the Beijing Biennale 2008 in China, will display his work at the Tembi House of Culture in Yogyakarta.
Cambodia, compared to [...]
Cambodia holds big concert to hail Preah Vihear temple as world heritage
PHNOM PENH, July 14 (Xinhua) — Cambodia here on Monday held a big concert inside the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh to hail the Preah Vihear temple to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Sok An, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and head of the senior Cambodian delegation for applying for the Preah Vihear temple [...]
Dengue Fever Puts A Refreshing New Spin On The Music Of Cambodia
The strange and colorful Cambodian pop music of the 1960s was born of and killed by military conflict.
Its haunting mix of American surf, garage, and psychedelic rock, as well as traditional Khmer lyrics and vocals, was the result of Cambodian musicians listening to U.S. Armed Forces Radio broadcasts from neighboring Vietnam.
The sound thrived until 1975, [...]