Reporting by Meng Kroypunlok, Sarum Sreynat and Danielle Keeton-Olsen Residents living along Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok lake say the authorities tell them their homes are dangerous and unclean for building stilted homes over the lake that are partly anchored to the road. What leaves them more on edge, they say, is the threat of eviction […]
The Cambodian government cracked down on independent journalism in 2023, and development industry failed to respond, but journalists carry on.
I expected to enter a sea of blue at the Kuomintang Party’s final rally – the congregation of the pan-blue movement to retain, if not strengthen or solidify, Taiwan’s relationship with Beijing – on January 9. Instead, it was a sea of red, and almost every person in the rally held the national flag, the […]
Recessions strike suddenly, but there are economic indicators that citizens can consider ahead of any unpredictable financial shockwave. These five factors were selected for this graphic because they would put a state at greater risk within a recession–like a high unemployment rate or rate of mortgages that have gone underwater–or they could help a state […]
Chenda could have asked for a lot of things. As a garment worker living off maybe $200 a month, she hopes for a higher takeaway pay, fewer hours, more freedom, more free time… But when she stood in front of a crowd of her peers and foreign workers, who may be earning up to ten […]
The top-tier ministers in the government says they’re doing all they can to maintain “rule of law” in Cambodia, but they seem to have a completely different definition from that of the international community. Another international monitor, this time the World Justice Project, sunk Cambodia to the bottom of another list of fundamental rights and […]