Braving the current protest ban, Mam Sonando, director of Beehive Radio, gathered about 100 supporters for yet another demonstration (see another one HERE) which planned to march to the Ministry of Information to request the bandwith for an independent TV station. A considerable number of municipal guards and riot police prevented the march to take […]
The opposition CNRP held a commemoration ceremony for the 1997 grenades attack near the former National Assembly on a Sam Rainsy Party rally which killed 16 and injured over 100, Sam Rainsy included. The demonstration ban imposed by the actual government following the violent crackdown on striking workers and CNRP supporters early January was somehow […]
Several Phnom Penh communities (always the same moving up front) demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court and the Royal Palace to request the liberation of 21 workers, activists and union leaders who were jailed during the violent crackdown by the riot police and military of a worker’s strike on January […]
Evicted or under threat of being evicted communities from Phnom Penh staged a sit-in in front of the E.U. delegation to draw the attention to the fact that many of the land issues they are involved in for the past years are not being resolved in a satisfactory or diligent way… This is a follow-up […]
Sam Rainsy, opposition CNRP co-president, upon his return from a lobbying tour in Australia, held a press conference together with Kem Sokha, the other CNRP co-president, at the party’s headquarters, to explain the CNRP position after the failed negotiation round with the ruling CPP which was held at the Senate a couple of days earlier. […]
An exhibition!!! It doesn’t happen often, but was bound to happen. Some vintage prints from my early work (we’re talking 1970’s-1980’s) will be exhibited for sale at ‘44 Gallery‘ in Brugge (Belgium) from May 3rd to May 25th (the oficial opening is on Sunday May 4th at 16:00). The exhibited 30×40 cm prints were all […]
Union Leader Vorn Pov, arrested during the military crackdown on striking workers of January 2nd, will remain in the Kompong Cham jail. The bail hearing at the Appeals Court did not turn into his favour this afternoon. About 100 supporters demonstrated in front of the court gates.
It was yesterday… And these photographs were taken 1/4 of a century ago. I wonder if things have changed that much… The full story is HERE.