An exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art is showcasing a sculpture of a Hindu god that was carved into a Cambodian mountain around year 600. VOA Khmer’s Chetra Chap reports on the importance of this Hindu sculpture to a nation that is now primarily Buddhist.
Graphic designer creates book to help her children and others connect with Khmer culture
Lowell City Councilor Sokhary Chau also became his city's first Asian American mayor, following a council vote and inauguration Monday.
During the past three years, Laos has accepted 24 deportations from the U.S., compared to nearly 100 deportations to Burma, 125 to Thailand, more than 200 to Cambodia and nearly 300 to Vietnam.
Among the other languages in which voting materials are required, depending on the jurisdiction, are Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Korean, Vietnamese, as well as several American Indian and Alaskan Native languages.
Anthony Veasna So’s book is hailed as a highly original work full of compassion and humor that vividly describes life as a young Cambodian-American.
For many Cambodians, racial discrimination was an unanticipated part of their experience as new Americans.
Veasna So once described himself as a “queer boy, a Khmer-American son of former refugees, a failed computer scientist, a grotesque parody of the model minority, and a graduate of Stanford University.”
From a child of immigrants drawing on the walls of the family’s house to an Emmy-winning visual effects artist drawing for Hollywood, a Cambodian-American talent represents a classic success story of the American dream. Now, she hopes to bring the dream to her motherland. VOA’s Chetra Chap reports.
Ellen Wong – a Cambodian-Canadian actress known for roles in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Carrie Diaries, and Netflix’s GLOW – takes on a character whose story is closest to her own real life in a new film about her ancestral country Cambodia.
Load more