Two Years of VOD English
VOD English officially started two years ago, on World Press Freedom Day 2019. Below are 24 articles, one for each month since the launch, selected from more than 1,300 we’ve published.Our goal has been to answer: What’s really happening? And: How does it affect people? We want to find concealed facts and lived realities, not repeat rehearsed rhetoric. We’ve looked at issues of accountability — that’s a newsroom’s duty — as well as explored stories of creativity, injustice and pain.Looking back, we’re proud to see the many small stories we’ve covered with both care and irreverence; the many big, substantive articles — more of them than we can really explain how we found the time to do them; and the efforts to be imaginative, principled and defiant. Thank you to all our readers, contributors and sources. We plan to do much more.

Hun Sen Dares Critics, Within and Without, to Challenge Him

CPP Noodle Day Aims to Repel Rebel-Noodle Movement

‘Help Us Leave’: Refugees Plead for an End to Their Detention

Predatory Microlenders Abusing Rights of Poor Borrowers, Report Says

Former Cambodia Daily Readers, Left Hungry, Shift News Diet

Paris Peace Agreements Day Celebrated as a National Holiday for the Last Time

Waiting for Rainsy: Despite No-Show, Supporters in Thailand Trust He Will Return

Plantations Skirted Laws to Amass Land, Driving Locals Into Debt

Artist Leang Seckon: A Long Road Toward Peace of Mind

Kem Sokha Questioned About Meaning of Cambodians ‘Standing Up’

‘Very Lonely’: Muslims Face Discrimination as Virus Cases Rise

From Refugee to Rowing Coach, a Cambodian Finds His Place on the Water

Meth Is More Cheap, Pure and Widely Available in Cambodia, UN Reports

When a Unionist Took Her Grievances Online, Police Came Knocking

‘They Want to Silence Us’: Government Critics Jailed Over Covid-19 Posts

In Takeo, Migrant Families Turn to Rat Trade Amid Covid-19 Pandemic

Before Her Arrest, Khmer Thavrak Activist Spoke of Jail, Love for Nation

Apsara Dancer, 27, Among Uncounted Victims of Storms, Flooding

A Surrogate Family and the Law That Criminalized Them

Sex Trafficking Victim Posts a Call for Help From China

Villages Emptied Amid an Extensive Web of Elites’ Landholdings

On Patrol, a Mekong Village Tackles Electric Fishing Scourge

Opinion: Women’s Challenges in Newsrooms Are Going Unreported
