IN Sokhuon is a Cambodian scholar who focuses on Indian and Chinese soft power strategies in Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on diplomacy, cultural relations, aid development, educational exchanges and infrastructure engagement. He, currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Contemporary Chinese Studies and a PhD candidate in International Relations and Politics at Mahatma Gandhi University, India.
On the morning of August 26, 2026, a piece of the Langtang Lirung glacier broke away on the Nepal-China border. Within minutes, a wall of ice, rock, mud and water was moving down the Trishuli Valley at speeds later estimated at more than 190 kilometers per hour. It reached theContinue Reading
On the morning of 26 August 2026, a wall of ice, rock, mud and water tore down a Himalayan valley on the Nepal–China border faster than most vehicles travel on a highway. Within minutes it had destroyed the Gyirong (Kyirong) port complex, Nepal’s main trade and pilgrimage gateway to Tibet,Continue Reading
On 28 August 2026, delegates gathered at the GDT Convention Centre in Phnom Penh formally adopted the Phnom Penh Declaration, closing out the three-day Second Inter-Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference (ISC-2). The text reaffirms international law, peaceful dispute settlement and “stronger parliamentary diplomacy” in language that is broad, aspirational and, in places,Continue Reading
For three days in late August 2026, Phnom Penh became an unlikely meeting point for the world’s legislatures. Speakers and deputy speakers of parliament, senate presidents, and representatives of inter-parliamentary bodies converged on the Cambodian capital for the Second Inter-Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference (ISC-2), held from 26 to 28 August atContinue Reading
Preah Vihear is not simply an ancient temple damaged by conflict. It is a warning that modern warfare increasingly destroys the living relationships between culture, nature and memory. Cambodia’s Preah Vihear Temple stood for over a millennium on the edges of the Dângrêk Mountains in an environment where nature and historyContinue Reading