Brought over by the French, painted cement tile making has been incorporated into Cambodian design for more than a century, even as the industry has died out in Europe. But with local masters ageing, ...

At 23 years old, one of the top honchos of Machuca Baldozas Inc. isn’t even a quarter of the age of his cement tile-manufacturing company, which has been around since the early 1900s. Not that age is ...

Not everybody’s taking the easy way out. Look at Machuca Baldozas, a 100-year-old tile business that still relies on traditional methods of cement tile-making and old-fashioned, meticulous techniques.

“If you’ll go there to the showroom, I have there a pile of all the cut-outs. I can show you…” Speaking to me is Elvira “Vivian” Machuca, wife of Luisito Machuca Sr. “Whenever I see papers, magazines, ...