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Angelina Jolie is opening up about her firsthand experience with helping communities in Cambodia.

Angelina Jolie, 46, glowed while sharing an introspective Instagram post from her recent family trip to Cambodia on Wednesday, Feb. 23. The starlet/mother of six looked peaceful in the photo, which you can see here. It was paired with a poignant caption about the “special country”, where she adopted son Maddox from in Mar. 2002.

Most of Cambodian director Rithy Panh’s family were killed in Khmer Rouge labor camps. He was lucky enough to get out and, after months in a Thai refugee camp, move to Paris where he eventually went to film school. His adult years have been spent making innovative, impressionistic documentaries about Cambodia’s terrible years of struggle, mingled with personal memories.

Project New Era, a ground-breaking initiative in the UK led by The Payments Association, paywith.glass and other private industry stakeholders, supported by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as its consulting partner, has published its Green Paper report, ‘A New Era for Money’.

Married at First Sight Australia bride Selina Chhaur says she was blindsided by her new husband Cody Bromley’s admission that she "wasn’t something I normally go for."WATCH: Cody tells Selina he's not attracted to her on their honeymoonIn the emotionally charged episode, which aired tonight, Chhaur confronted Bromley about the real reason he isn’t attracted to her, sparking a race row that reverberates through the other couples and leaves the experts stunned.“It came as a massive shock to me and it was really upsetting,’’ Chhaur, 32, tells WHO. “He did judge the book by its cover.’’After getting off to a rocky start, during which the personal trainer from Sydney’s Northern Beaches admitted that he was struggling with the lack of sexual attraction to his bride, hairdresser Chhaur decides to “address the elephant in the room’’ and asks if it’s because of her nationality.Cody and Selina have struggled with the issue since their wedding day."I asked him the question, that was actually really hard, and I guess I was a little naïve thinking that no it wouldn’t be that...

AJ Odudu has jetted off to Vietnam for a sun-soaked getaway having landed a new presenting role. The Strictly Come Dancing star, 33, has shared a series of stunning snaps from her work-related trip, and has also revealed that the foot injury she sustained during her time on the BBC One dance show is on the mend. AJ, who was replaced by Maisie Smith for the Strictly live arena tour, took to Instagram on 13 January to announce that she was flying out to Vietnam to film a show that was "coming soon".

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

A service to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day is being organised by the Provost of Falkirk, Billy Buchanan.

Police are trying to track down the owners of a lost camera containing holiday photos of two people in Cambodia - and are asking the public if anyone recognises them.

It remains to be seen if Celtic will be able to secure a deal for Mehdi Ghayedi but there's no doubting his devotion as a video emerges of the Iranian working out in a Hoops shirt.

JERUSALEM -- One of the Israel Museum’s biggest patrons, American billionaire Michael Steinhardt, approached the flagship Israeli art institution in 2007 with an artifact he had recently bought: a 2,200-year-old Greek text carved into limestone.But shortly after it went on display, an expert noticed something odd — two chunks of text found a year earlier during a dig near Jerusalem fit the limestone slab like a jigsaw puzzle. It soon became clear that Steinhardt’s tablet came from the same cave where the other fragments were excavated.Last month, Steinhardt surrendered the piece, known as the Heliodorus Stele, and 179 other artifacts valued at roughly $70 million as part of a landmark deal with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office to avoid prosecution.

LSH Auto is part of LSH International, which dates back over 45 years and operates over 143 Mercedes-Benz dealerships in markets across the globe in countries as diverse as China, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia - and most recently in Germany and the United Kingdom.

When Élodie Yung signed on to The Cleaning Lady, she relished the opportunity to play a character of many layers—a Cambodian immigrant coming from the Philippines to America who meets “extreme situations” with remarkable resilience, and will do whatever it takes to protect her son.

The eponymous edifice of Cambodia’s International Feature Oscar entry, White Building, is barely white at all by the time we encounter it. A low-rise apartment block in Phnom Penh — the sort of teeming anthill of humanity familiar to anyone who has spent time in a South East Asian city — it is stained with tropical rain, its cement falling off in chunks, its cat’s cradles of improvised electrical wiring truly shocking, in every sense of the word. Director Kavich Neang grew up here.

Angelina Jolie, 46, has always been adamant about helping world issues and her latest venture is to help promote change in Cambodia. Cambodia is where her adopted son, Maddox, 20, is from, and to help fight for change, she shared a very rare throwback of Maddox as a baby. You can see the photo, HERE.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFive filmmakers from Cambodia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam have been selected to participate in the inaugural Seed Lab, operated by the non-profit Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab.The new program helps promising shorts filmmakers explore their directorial voices prior to the development of their first features.

Angelina Jolie is as famous for her philanthropism as she is for her movie career and she's about to embark on another charitable endeavour.The Eternals actress has revealed she's moving back to Cambodia to continue raising awareness for bee conservation and women's education.MORE: Inside Angelina Jolie's botanical-themed living room at home she shares with childrenAngelina is an ambassador of French beauty house, Guerlain, and was named Godmother of the Women of Bees and she spoke exclusively

Naman Ramachandran Emerging Cambodian filmmaker Kavich Neang has a deep personal connection with the White Building, an iconic structure that was demolished in 2017.Neang’s fiction film “White Building” has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons strand, and the filmmaker has also explored the subject in the Rotterdam-winning documentary “Last Night I Saw You Smiling” (2019).The White Building was built in 1963 by Cambodian architect Lu Ban Hap and Russian architect Vladimir

Richard Kuipers A book of dreams, teenagers searching for buried treasure and a quest to digitally manufacture spiritual enlightenment constitute the intriguing ingredients of “Karmalink,” a fresh and highly entertaining sci-fi mystery-adventure set in a near-future Phnom Penh. Driven by Buddhist concepts of karma and rebirth, and underscored by commentary on Cambodia’s past, present and potential future, this striking feature debut by U.S.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentReincarnation, artificial consciousness and augmented reality intersect in U.S. director Jake Wachtel’s Cambodia-set “Karmalink,” for which Variety can reveal the first trailer.The sci-fi mystery will have its world premiere as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week on Sept.

With the announcement of a new documentary from filmmaker Elizabeth Jacobs about adoptions in Cambodia, questions have been raised once again about the potential unethical practices surrounding Angelina Jolie’s adoption of her eldest son Maddox.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week has unveiled its lineup of nine international first works, all of them world premieres, with U.S.

Karmalink, the Cambodian sci-fi that marks the debut of director Jake Wachtel, has been picked to open this year’s Venice Critics’ Week sidebar.

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“The Donut King” (2020)From filmmaker Alice Gu, “The Donut King” traces the twisty, unexpected journey of Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy, who arrived in California in the 1970s and, through a mixture of diligence and luck, built a multi-milion dollar donut empire up and down the west coast.After escaping the brutal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Ngoy started a new life in America as a church custodian and eventually parlayed hard luck and opportunity into the opening of his first donut shop in Orange

Balan Palanisamy, the veteran executive behind Southeast Asia distribution powerhouse Suraya Filem, has died at the age of 64 following a battle with Covid-19, according to several people who worked with him.

LOS ANGELES -- Affluent and well-connected Black families are the focus of “Our Kind of People,” a new Fox drama series from “Empire” creator Lee Daniels.Based on “Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class," a 1999 nonfiction book by Lawrence Otis Graham, the series will join the network's fall schedule, while midseason's “The Cleaning Lady” will bring the rarity of an Asian lead character to TV.Elodie Yung (“The Hitman’s Bodyguard”) stars as a Cambodian doctor who is driven by

rescue Kaavan, a 37-year-old elephant kept chained to a wall, alone, in an Islamabad zoo in squalid conditions.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentStrand Releasing has acquired all U.S. rights to Oscar-nominated Cambodian director Rithy Panh’s “Irradiated,” which world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won best documentary.

Cher & The Loneliest Elephant has arrived, showcasing the pop star’s efforts to rehome a mistreated elephant to a sanctuary in Cambodia.The documentary focuses on Kavaan, an elephant who had spent 35 years in a zoo. He lost his partner in 2012 and became obese due to a poor diet.

Kelley Wentworth is getting honest about her experience on Survivor.

Emilio Mayorga “Sorya,” “Starseed,” and “Caramel’s Words” are among 55 projects from 16 countries set to be pitched at this year’s Cartoon Movie, Europe’s leading animated feature co-production event.The 23rd edition will move totally online, running March 9-11.Part of an In Development showcase, “Sorya” is directed by Denis Do, an Annecy Fest best feature film winner for “Funan.” That debut depicted the brutality of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime.

direct to your inboxManchester United and Manchester City have come together to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.January 27 is Holocaust Memorial Day and it is a chance for people to reflect, remember and pay respects to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust under Nazi persecution, and in the genocides which came afterwards in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

Cher has dubbed Donald Trump “the most vindictive person I’ve ever witnessed” in a scathing new interview. 

refugees, a failed computer scientist, a grotesque parody of the model minority, and a graduate of Stanford University.” In “Afterparties," to be published in August, he drew upon the tragedies his family endured in Cambodia during the rule of the Khmer Rouge and his own struggles with sexual and cultural identity.“'Afterparties' was one of the first books I acquired for Ecco, and everything about Anthony’s exuberant writing felt new to me — its blazing wit, crackling energy, deep empathy,” So's

It appears that singer Cher is quite the animal rights activist as she flew to Cambodia to be there to greet the world’s loneliest elephant.