After a year in prison on an incitement conviction for his music, 22-year-old rapper Kea Sokun was released from a Siem Reap prison on Friday and returned home with no regrets about his songs or his refusal to apologize for the lyrics in court.
A Kampot fishing community’s attempt to set up a radio station to keep its members informed has been caught up in red tape, with funding allocated for the project now expired.
There is no official market at Kour Srov, but vendors from Phnom Penh’s Doeum Kor wholesale market have turned it into a makeshift market. As Covid-19 restrictions remain at many of the city’s major markets, vendors have spread out to the city limits to sell their wares.
KANDAL STUNG DISTRICT, Kandal — Villagers in dispute with Phnom Penh’s new, under-construction airport protested after Kandal authorities destroyed a road leading to their homes and farmland with the aid of a heavy security presence.
Visitors on the Kampot riverside are greeted to the intense stench from raw sewage pumping directly into the river, but authorities and ADB had separate understandings of how the problematic pipe would be fixed.
Families who built their stilted homes on Kiri Sakor district’s estuaries decades ago say their lives revolve around the antics of the Union Development Group, locked in a stalemate as they repeatedly rebuild the structures that the company’s guards dismantle.
A lion that was granted special permission to live in the middle of Phnom Penh escaped for a short time this morning, after which his owner told reporters that he was building a higher fence to prevent future escapes.
This moment should be used as an opportunity to re-evaluate Cambodia’s policies around taxation — most specifically the income tax, and the rate at which the wealthiest Cambodians contribute to national coffers, writes Future Forum researcher Nith Kosal.
Opposition activists who fled to Thailand after the CNRP was dissolved fear they could be targeted, followed and attacked for their politics and associations.
Hammered by years of debt, drought and desperation, Cambodia’s smallholder farmers have long supported themselves by sending family to work in Phnom Penh factories. But the pandemic has upended the arrangement, forcing unemployed workers back to failing farms.
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