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Daun Penh Guards Ask Youth Activist to Dismantle Makeshift Library
Two Daun Penh security guards prevented a youth activist from the Khmer Thavrak group from setting up a small public library in Phnom Penh’s Wat Botum park.
Two Daun Penh security guards prevented a youth activist from the Khmer Thavrak group from setting up a small public library in Phnom Penh’s Wat Botum park.
Phnom Penh’s riverside is already rich in community and history. Pedestrianizing it would open up new possibilities for people-led “placemaking,” perhaps with a garden, viewpoints or room for temporary art spaces, writes Future Forum’s Keth Piseth in part three of a campaign for a car-free Sisowath Quay.
Hundreds of funeral participants accompanied the body of late Prince Norodom Ranariddh in Phnom Penh this morning as he was carried from his home in Daun Penh district toward Wat Botum.
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