They are hitting the roads today. The Pedal Executioners, the Big Thighs, the Feather on a Mountain, the Lone Breakaway, the Compact Pack, the Streamlined Time Rider, the Sprint Puller, the Kamikaze of the Alps, the Faithfull Water Carrier… They will all be there for the 100th Tour de France starting today. I was privileged […]
After two weeks of mud-throwing, threatening predictions and salacious revelations, the 2013 Cambodian Legislative Election campaign has officially started with both main parties, the ruling CPP and the opposition CNRP, staging massive parades in the city of Phnom Penh.
My very public exhibition on the (outside) walls of the French Embassy on Monivong Boulevard (Phnom Penh) is up for a few more days. The walls will return to white after June 30th. Part of the work was commissioned by the Agence Française de Développement which partly finances the ‘Better Factories Cambodia’ program implemented by […]
The casino business is thriving in Cambodia. The border gates are packed with them, catering Thai and Vietnamese and many more. Naga World Casino in Phnom Penh was probably the first one, initially located on a boat at the confluence of the Bassac and the Tonle Sap. Business must have been good. They built a […]
It could happen to you too… A country slips into violence, or a natural disaster strikes, and you might have to leave everything behind you. This is World Refugee Day. There are 7.6 million people who became a refugee or were displaced in 2012, one every 4.1 seconds… Total is 45,2 million… Between 1986 and […]
I honestly can’t remember how many times the Boeung Kak Lake community walked over to the Phnom Penh Municipality building over the last 4 years to hold a protest… This time it was about a follow-up on the land titles for 48 families who are to be included in the 12,44 Ha granted to the […]
The Boeung Kak Lake community staged a demonstration to request the release of Yorm Bopha, land rights activist jailed to 2 years imprisonment for allegedly having beaten up two moto taxi drivers and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) on the occasion of the Queen Mother’s […]
Boeung Kak Lake community members staged a cursing ceremony in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) this morning. They planned to drag puppets representing corrupt officials to the Council of Ministers but were prevented from doing so by units of riot police which blocked the acces roads. The puppets were then dragged onto the sand which fills the […]