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Flowers are a gift that suits nearly every occasion. It could be a wedding, funeral, birthday, anniversary, graduation, first date or a religious or traditional holiday – flowers can usually take care of it, especially if the recipient is a woman.

Prime Minister Hun Sen inaugurated a 134km stretch of National Road 3 from Phnom Penh to Kampot town on March 2 after 34 months of construction with over $200 million in funding from China. Speaking at the ceremony, he said the achievement came from cooperating with Cambodia’s most reliable development partner – China.

Marilyn Baikie’s remote Inuit community has more wisdom than they could ever want about ecological grief.

Drawings in pencil on white canvas aren’t something seen very often in galleries these days, perhaps because of the subdued and understated nature of the technique, but one artist – Koem Keosocheat – purposely avoided indulging in colour for her latest exhibition, White, so as not to obscure the intricate details of her creations.

Regulars at Caddies bar and grill in Bethesda, Maryland can still get a classic cocktail made with vodka, ginger beer and lime, but it now comes with a different name – a Kyiv Mule.

Leveraging phenomenal female human capital growth – with women’s influence being felt in all spheres of the Kingdom’s business sector – Cambodia is enjoying the fruits of a shift in gender parity.

Cambodia rejects the use or threats of force and does not side with any of the parties in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Prime Minister Hun Sen has declared. The premier stated that support for any party in what he believed had evolved into a proxy battle between the former USSR and US-led NATO countries would violate the Kingdom’s own policy of non-alignment with military blocs.

The Metropolitan Opera in recent years has taken steps to draw in new opera-goers with more modern works, this year launching its season with its first piece by a black composer.

A Tunisian singer’s announcement that she would freeze her eggs in the hope of becoming a mother has provoked a heated debate on women’s reproductive rights in the North African country.

Clutching a single-barrelled rifle in lush northern Liberia, Emmanuel says his 10 children were able to get an education thanks to his gun. The small wiry man, whose full name AFP is withholding, ignores a ban on hunting bush meat and earns most of his cash catching pangolins or monkeys in the surrounding jungle.