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But it is fake (styrofoam and plastic)… And no holiday for Christmas in Cambodia.

It was a long wait for the many supporters but Chan Soveth, a Human Rights investigator with the NGO ADHOC, walked out of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court as a free man. He was accused of having helped people in relation to a so-called ‘secessionist movement’ in Kratie’s Broma village last May, when a 16-year […]

Nope… It is not a christmas tree. It is part of the 30,000 signatures collected by Amnesty International requesting an end to illegal land grabbings in Cambodia also exhibited at a demonstration where more than 11,000 signatures collected in Cambodia on the same topic were handed over at the National Assembly… See here. This is […]

Phnom Penh is a crowded city. A real organic city: growing, evolving, adapting spontaneously with its inhabitants. Unlike many developed countries, and still for now, most Cambodians have their roots in a rural environment, subject to the laws of mother nature. The migrants coming to the capital adapt quickly to the concrete and disorder, leaving […]

Two Boeung Kak Lake communities (here and here), one already evicted and the other under threat of an eviction, the Borei Keila community (here) and representatives of the Pochentong community requested a meeting with the World Bank related to its re-engagement with the governement after the bank suspended its lendings in 2011 in view of […]

This is the start of a new series, initiated here and continued here… December is a good month for this: crisp light for the next weeks… Phnom Penh is a crowded city. A real organic city: growing, evolving, adapting spontaneously with its inhabitants. Unlike many developed countries, and still for now, most Cambodians have their […]

About 400 human Rights activists (see also here for what happened on International Human Rights Day) gathered in front of the National Assembly to deliver a petition of over 40,000 signatures, collected by Amnesty International, regarding land issues and Human Rights. But it was done with a twist: the participants did it ‘Gangnam’ style and […]

Mam Sonando, Director of the independent Beehive Radio station, condemned to 20 years of imprisonment for masterminding a so-called ‘secessionist movement’, saw his request for bail rejected by the judge on the following grounds: risk of disturbance of public order, possession of double nationality and possibility of influencing witnesses. A crowd of some 200 supporters […]