About 200 members of the Boeung Kak Lake community, joined by the Pochentong community also under threat of an eviction, staged a demonstration in the sand of the filled-up Boeung Kak, carrying huge S.O.S. banners with photographs of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, due to arrive tomorrow for the ASEAN meetings […]
A surprisingly large amount (for Cambodia) of about 800 people from the grassroots organisations showed up for an unauthorized demonstration. After a short negotiation with the authorities they managed to march 400 meters from Sothearos Bouleverd to the National Assembly. The recommendations collected during the previous days’ workshops were handed over to the Lawmakers, ahead […]
ASEAN grassroots organisations, ranging from evicted communities to garment workers, forest communities, or sex workers, held a series of workshops over the past days in order to reach a number of recommendations which will be handed over to the leaders of the countries gathered at the ASEAN meeting. The workshops were hampered by numerous intimidations […]
President Barack Obama is expected in Phnom Penh this week… This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
At this link you can find all the other photographs of King Norodom Sihanouk’s funeral.
On the way to Kep, attending the wedding of one of my wife’s colleagues, and (obviously) diverting from my B&W tendency.
Mrs. Michelle Obama, wife of the newly elected President of the U.S., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mr. William E. Todd, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, received a letter from the Borei Keila and the Boeung Kak Lake communities who were camping outside the U.S. embassy since yesterday. The communities hope that the November 18th […]
About 100 members of Suon Sophorn’s Sam Rainsy Party Youth movement (opposition) tried to march from ‘Freedom Park’ to the Royal Palace to request amnesty for those they consider condemned for political motives, among which they include Sam Rainsy, the opposition party leader living in self-imposed exile in France, but also Yorm Bopha and Tim […]