When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French missionary Fr François Ponchaud persisted in exposing the regime’s horrors. With ...

They’re Cambodian refugees who have survived in this country by running a donut shop in Fresno. They take only two days off a year: Christmas and the day after. Freed from shop duties ...

Lin Sok of Lin Sok Services Financiers in Montreal gave up a career in financial services before returning a few years later ...

Today, as a member of its board, I am honored to carry forward the mission inspired by the leadership and compassion of Jimmy ...

He had battled cancer, French media reported. The accounts from Cambodian refugees collected by Father Ponchaud in his 1977 book offered some of the first detailed evidence of the bloodshed and ...

A History of the Khmer Community” exhibit in 2024 at the Strong House are earning the Amherst Historical Society’s annual Arthur F. Kinney Conch Shell award.

As Canada heads toward an election this year, immigration and refugee resettlement are key themes. Amid growing skepticism ...

In exchange, Thai authorities were able to target critics of the Thai government living in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam as part of a “swap mart” of refugees and dissidents. “Thailand’s resp ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

Millions of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese war refugees were not as fortunate. By the late 1970s, the refugee crisis had become one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the 20th century.