
Week in Review: May 21-27
Even as many of the country’s political issues recur in cycles, a handful of new voices — pressing previously neglected issues around gender, environment and minorities — is also emerging.

Even as many of the country’s political issues recur in cycles, a handful of new voices — pressing previously neglected issues around gender, environment and minorities — is also emerging.

Social media photos show mostly older voters handed a pen and mock ballot and, under supervision from officials, shown how to pick the CPP.

Five Indonesian men stood trial on Friday over charges of drug possession, illegal confinement and torture amid a period of instability within an online gaming business that connected the group.

Another round of negotiations between NagaCorp and its casino union in Phnom Penh came and went Friday with no progress,

Four Kampong Chhnang residents were bitten by a wild animal they are calling a “wolf,” and which they say they have now cooked and eaten.

In Kampong Thom’s Sakream commune, the Grassroots Democratic Party’s Choeun Nasy spent five years trying to work with the ruling CPP in his role as second deputy chief. “I almost gave up,” he says.

After a hydropower dam forced resettlement, most Sesan residents made new lives in a grid of identical stilted houses in New Srekor, while some resisters founded Old Srekor. An ex-opposition commune chief is now looking to make a comeback in a split community.

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