The Golden Sorya Mall, which billed itself as Phnom Penh’s Pub Street, has finally been taken down after over a decade of being a famous part of the seedier side of the city’s nightlife.
A fictional short film on the eviction of a Bunong village — based on the true story of a Stung Treng hydropower dam project — has collected several international accolades this year. It screens in Cambodia for the first time on Friday.
Trash bags that were piling up around Arei Ksat have been moved to a temporary location amid publicity, but residents must continue to deal with their own garbage at least until a meeting with local government is held on Friday, the collection company said.
Off the banks of Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula, in the shadow of the famous Sokha Hotel, the ubiquitous fishing boats and sand dredgers have been replaced by military vessels, and local fisherpeople have been asked to temporarily clear the area with no compensation until the Asean Summit is over.
Residents in Kandal’s Arei Ksat commune say trash has been piling up on neighborhood streets, with a local official saying a flooded dumpsite has affected the operations of a private company charged with collection.
Drivers for Onion Mobility’s first line of fully electric tuk-tuks are reporting frustrations after their first months on the road, but others are still optimistic about Cambodia’s green future as the company pledges to improve its initial product.
Participants from some lesser-known Cambodian indigenous groups are learning filmmaking in Phnom Penh to document their cultures, but much of their traditions are already obscured.
The Cambodia International Film Festival is headed into its final screenings today. The works showcased so far have explored poverty and development in Cambodia, pride in the country’s history, and a diversity of emotions felt in lives across the country.
Expectations were high on opening night of the 11th annual Cambodian International Film Festival, the first since the Covid pandemic. After two years of waiting, around 170 films from Cambodia and abroad will be played for free at various theaters around Phnom Penh.
Most people traveling down Phnom Penh’s St. 200 see it as just another unassuming thoroughfare; a small stretch they breeze past on their way to someplace else. But Chandara So sees it differently. He sees it as the exciting center of a new Cambodian film renaissance.
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