Today some 150 residents from the Boeung Kak area gathered in front of Prime Minister Hun Sens house in Takmau to ask for his support (VIJ2008069). Some 4000 families, living on, near and from the Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh, are threatened to be evicted soon. The municipality granted a 99 year lease to […]
John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State of the US, announced today an (initial?) American contribution of 1,8 million $ to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (VIJ2008070G). It is never too late is it? And the administration in Washington will have changed when the trials start for real.
Opening of The Absence of Architecture exhibition, part of the In Transition event at the Meta House (6 street 264, Phnom Penh) tonight at 6pm. Here is the accompanying text: “The Absence of Architecture In 1962, 10.3 percent of the population was living in the cities in Cambodia. In 2008 it is 15.7 percent. There is […]
There is a new story about UXO, cluster bombs, mines and the presence of Handicap International in Cambodia on my website. On the eve of the signature of an international convention on UXO and clusterbombs in December, there will be an exhibition with some of these pictures in the streets of Brussels (yes: Belgium)… Just today, […]
I’m back in PPenh. Spent 10 days out there tracking UXO, mine victims, traffic accidents etc… with Handicap International Belgium (VIJ2008065G). There’ll be a selection of pictures soon on my website…