Art Festival To Showcase Renewed Classics
Cambodian Living Arts established a teaching program in 1999, encouraging surviving master musicians and performance artists to resume work with young apprentices.
The festival will allow some of these apprentices to showcase work they have practiced for years.
Kong Boran, a student of “chapei dang weng,” a musical oral tradition, said he learned from his father, Kong [...]
New film delves into history and practice of bokator
A still image from Daniel Perrier’s film Une Breve Histoire du Boxkator shows students in training at the Bokator Academy of Phnom Penh.
A DOCUMENTARY film on the ancient Khmer martial art bokator, formally known as labokator, will be screened tonight at the French Cultural Centre (CCF) in Phnom Penh.
The 50-minute film, titled Une Breve Histoire [...]
Dancing is Pupular During Khmer New Year in Cambodia
Do you like dancing? If your answer is yes then Khmer New Year is the best time for you to enjoy dancing with people old and new friends. In the village or district where people gathering you can see they setup the music with dancing space to welcome people to dance especially in the early [...]
Pop singer files court complaint
Source : www.Kimyi.info
CELEBRITY songstress Sok Pisey has filed a complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Police after a pornographic video that features her name in its titles spread throughout the Kingdom.
Sok Pisey, a favourite pop star among Cambodian youths, said the video’s producers had used her name without authorisation, adding that the actress in the [...]
Yeak Loam musicians perform in Phnom Penh
Source : Photo from Kimyi website.
Yeak Loam Lake in Rattanakiri province is a place of eerie beauty: Nestled in the circular crater of an extinct volcano, the water is crystal-clear and surrounded by lush, semi-deciduous forestland.
Around the lake are five villages – Lapoe, Lon, Sil, Chree and Phnom – that are home to the Tampuen, [...]
Bassac Children aim to preserve traditional arts
Photo by: Uy Nousereimony
The Children of Bassac perform at the National Museum in Phnom Penh on March 25.
AT the beginning of March the Children of Bassac traditional Khmer dance troupe closed out the two-week National Drama and Arts Festival with an invitation-only performance at the National Museum in Phnom Penh.
The troupe is now performing for [...]
Cambodia’s lone man on the freestyle cycling scene
Photo by: Pha Lina
With a lone spectator looking on, cyclist Keo Chhomyung practices his freestyle tricks at Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh.
VISIT the Olympic Stadium on any given Saturday or Sunday afternoon, and you will be treated to a rare sight in Cambodia: A 20-something Khmer wearing a helmet and shin guards practicing freestyle tricks [...]
Forgotten form of theatre comes out of the shadows
Photo by: Pha Lina
Actors rehearse a sbek por performace of the traditional Cambodian tale Preah Tinavong and Neang Pov.
KHAM Sokneang grasps two wooden sticks attached to a cow hide that has been cut into the shape of a young man and painted in bright colours. He holds the hide against a black screen and shakes [...]
Organic meat lovers set to go hungry in Reap
This could be your grill: Just follow the instructions below.
Bad news for carnivorous expatriates living in Siem Reap who like their food natural and unprocessed: First Modern Butcher Shop, the only retail outlet in town supplying organic meat to consumers, has shut down due to lack of patronage.
“There were actually a lot of Koreans coming, [...]
Villagers risk life and limb to tap sap from palms
Photo by: Roth Meas
A tapper uses a bamboo ladder to scale a palm tree near the village of Dorkrong in Kampong Chhang province.
Every morning Long Lonh wakes in the predawn darkness, washes his face and loads his bicycle with plastic containers. With his trusty knife hanging from his belt, he pedals slowly along the paved [...]
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