It was supposed to be a model relocation: the Borei Keila slum dwellers being relocated in newly built apartments at the same spot. Who could ask for more?
Cambodia being Cambodia, several families, many of them with one or several seropositive members, end up being tossed around and still have no real place to live in […]
Shukaku Inc. company goes on pumping sand in the Boeung Kak lake. The water levels are rising. It was granted a 99 year lease by the authorities to develop the area. More and more inhabitants dismantle their homes after having struck a deal with the company. But many of the 4000 families still haven’t got […]
The company which is going to evict some 4000 families from around the Boeung Kak lake has started its sand pumping operations to fill the lake again. I guess there will be more pictures on this story in the coming month.
Yesterday shot some pics of Pchhum Benh, a two or three week long festival to […]
Today some 150 residents from the Boeung Kak area gathered in front of Prime Minister Hun Sens house in Takmau to ask for his support (VIJ2008069). Some 4000 families, living on, near and from the Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh, are threatened to be evicted soon. The municipality granted a 99 year lease to […]
I just uploaded a new story on my website (VIJ2008054) about the military face-off between Cambodia and Thailand about a border dispute around the Preah Vihear temple.
Prasat Preah Vihear (Preah Vihear). 21/07/2008
Prasat Preah Vihear (Preah Vihear). 20/07/2008
Prasat Preah Vihear (Preah Vihear). 21/07/2008
Last night Bayon TV (owned or run by one of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s daughters) organised a huge show at the Olympic Stadium to welcome the delegation, headed by Vice-Premier Sok An, which managed to secure the 11th century temple of Preah Vihear on the list of UNESCO’s World Heritage.Before the actual party, the Vice […]
“The March of the Damned” (La Marche des Damnés) slideshow is published on the Ka-set website.
The same story is also featured on my website in the “latest” section
Surrealist painter René Magritte was famous for painting a pipe and writing underneath ‘This is not a pipe’. Well, the water authorities must have followed a workshop with Magritte in a previous life, because after some 40 houses disappeared in the Tonle Sap river because of a landlside on April 1st, the Water Ressources Minister said, […]