Labeling buildings by sustainability; cost-benefit summaries showing reduced long-term costs: Architects, activists, construction managers, developers and government officers are coming together and raising action plans for Phnom Penh’s urban future.
A chicken farmer is out of jail after serving 18 months for an online “chicken coop” commentary mimicking Covid-19 orders, and now plans to join the opposition Candlelight Party to push for better protection of rights.
Sophoan Seng, president of Ceroc, said the dissolution of the CNRP hurt the independence of the National Election Committee and this was evident in recent complaints from the Candlelight being denied by the election body.
Election NGO Comfrel mustered fewer than 2,000 observers on Sunday; Nicfec only around 20 — both mere fractions of total polling places. Political pressure and loss of funding have decimated groups that once provided leading assessments of Cambodian elections.
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