For women’s rights advocates, bullying and body-shaming are familiar territory. But they are pushing back against senseless conformity to seek new avenues for feminist conversations.
Parents and local officials are up in arms over a Kampong Chhnang school deputy director’s repeated attempts to threaten and force students to buy snacks from his wife’s stall and not others.
Every day, posters come to the “White Shark Channel” to plug their services or seek those of others. People smugglers, bounty hunters and even scammers looking for new jobs in the industry are networking in the Telegram group.
Nann Mara is at university studying law: only the third person from the indigenous communities in her district in Ratanakiri to seek a higher education. Less than 1% of all indigenous people aged 15 and over have even completed high school.
Many young Cambodian rappers are steering clear of social commentary in their lyrics, making artists like Kea Sokun part of a small cohort of musicians rapping about social justice and economic inequity, though laden with nationalistic overtones.
A notorious Vietnamese ex-hacker infiltrated Cambodian scam operations’ computers after entrapped workers reached out for help. He collected thousands of internal chat messages and documented the workings of their fake online investment schemes.
Men in Cambodia are free to choose premarital sex but women are burdened with gossip and disgrace, respondents to a study on the country’s “virginity culture” said, as advocates urged acceptance as well as sensitivity toward existing beliefs in addressing the gender-based shame.
Several farming families spoke of villages losing working-age men and women; rising costs and debts after switching to machine farming as a result; and the fear of bankruptcy and migration.
Boeng Trea lake, which is just north of Tonle Bati, has been drained, excavated and privatized in recent years. But Kandal officials this week gave conflicting accounts of what will happen to the drained lake.
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