Garbage is piling up in the streets of Phnom Penh. Truck drivers and garbage collectors from CINTRI, in charge of collecting all the smelly stuff we don’t want to keep at home, are asking for better wages. Just like the garment factory workers they want to double their salary: from $US75 to $US150. The difference […]
The community of the Boeung Kak Lake held a press conference this morning. The Boeung Kak Lake land issue is ongoing since 2007 (see HERE and HERE). It has radically transformed the lives of many inhabitants of the community. The 3000 families who were evicted by a development company from the shores of what once […]
About 20 monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ) and a few activists organised a short-noticed ceremony yesterday evening in a side street of Veng Sreng street in the industrial area of Phnom Penh, to the memory of those workers who were killed by army bullets during the January 3rd crackdown (see […]
These horses are not Chinese! But this Chinese New Year is the year of the horse. I wish you a happy New Year. AND DON’T SPARE THE HORSES…