I was reminded that 4 years have passed since the violent Dey Krahom eviction (see here) took place here in Phnom Penh. Has anything changed since? At Dey Krahom things for sure are not different: since the eviction the land still stands empty, so I guess the speculation didn’t really work out as planned for […]
Boeung Kak Lake community entangled in a 4-year long land issue (see here, here and here) went to the Council of Ministers to check on a hypothetical response to the petition they delivered earlier this month. 17 other communities were supposed to join but I couldn’t spot any. (sorry only one photograph today…)
It doesn’t happen often, but once in a while I get a reaction on some of my photographs decades after they were taken. It can be a man who recognizes himself with one of his ex-girlfriends or future wife and who will ask for a print of that photograph. It can be a Kurd who […]
Every statement, every word will be heard by the Boeung Kak Lake community entangled in a 4-year struggle to keep their land (see here, here and here): Kep Chuktema, Governor of Phnom Penh, stated on television that those left without a land title at Boeung Kak have no right to claim rightfull ownership. So the […]
A first rehearsal for the ceremonies which will take place for the cremation of King Norodom Sihanouk (see here for the tribute paid by the public to the King after his death last October) was organised today in front of the Royal Palace and the nearly completed 1.2 million dollar funeral pyre building. Kong Sam […]
If you are escaping the rigours of a European or North American winter or if for whatever other reason you happen to be in Chiang Mai (Thailand) between February 8th and 14th, you might drop by at the Chiang Mai Arts Festival (haven’t got a clue as to where exactly in Chiang Mai that might […]
The Boeung Kak Lake demonstrations (see here, here and here) are beginning to look like flashmobs. 7 to 8 tuk-tuk’s crammed with Boeung Kak residents show up at their target, deploy banners, distribute copies of petitions, discuss with the traffic police and/or the ‘undercover’ policemen (unmasked by their beeping and squeeking icom), guards, people supposedly […]
The ongoing story on Kep-by-the-Sea (see here) was updated with a series of recent photographs.