The price of Cambodian bricks has exploded. There is such a demand by building companies for bricks (semi-handmade, Cambodian style and supposedly without child labour) that the big contractors, anticipating a supply gap, have started hoarding huge amounts of bricks, increasing demand to such an extent that the price of a truckload of bricks has […]
Well, some more lost opportunities for Cambodia. The Preah Vihear site (VIJ20098014), a quite obvious candidate for UNESCO’s World Heritage (see my updated website here) will not cash in on tourist revenues any time soon… There is a nice tarmac road right up to the Cambodian border on the Thai side or a 13h long […]
I will be disconnected and away from my email from saturday March 8th until tuesday March 11th (going to Preah Vihear, soon to be UNESCO World Heritage/ Story VIJ2008014G).
I thought that when looking at the drawing on the wall it would say a lot about crude machismo in Cambodia and about what women have to put up with here… It is part of a new story I just started working on (VIJ2008012G) about Suburbia Phnom Penh. A place where 70 percent of the […]
You can check on my The Quest flyer here: The flyer was made to raise awareness on the Land Issues story I have been working on since 2000.