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A never seen before crowd ran over Kep during Khmer New Year, putting a very high pressure on the crab population this usually quiet little sea resort is famous for. More on Kep HERE…

At 8:07 AM this morning the Thevada for the Khmer New Year was welcomed by the Cambodians. He was presented offerings at the doorsteps, rich and poor alike. Negotiations between the old Thevada and the new one will go on for the next couple of days before the old year vanishes and the new one […]

I keep documenting changes in landscapes of areas people were evicted from. Here are the latest additions to that story on my website. Does anyone with a witty pen and an interest in urbanism feel like writing a text for this body of work? If so shoot me an email, I’ll explain more…

Press conference with CNRP co-president Sam Rainsy at the party headquarters in Chak Angré: an exercise in variation for the photographer… So the opposition CNRP will not go to the Royal Palace tomorrow, on the eve of the Khmer New Year festivities, to tell King Sihamoni they agree to finally, after several months of boycott, […]

Various worker’s unions tipped off the press that they would distribute leaflets at both Canadia Industrial Park and Bright Sky factory, calling for a worker’s walkout after Khmer New Year, one way to alleviate if not to prevent harassment by the authorities. And so it happened. The operation went on unhindered despite the army patrols […]

Ath Thorn, CCAWDU leader, was summonsed at the Municipal Court this morning to be questioned about allegations of incitement to violence during last year’s endless strike at SL Garment factory during which 1 innocent bystander was killed when riot police opened fire on demonstrating workers. More on the SL Garment factory strike HERE, HERE, HERE […]

The Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), a merger between the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party, celebrates its first anniversary at the party headquarters. Discreet negotiations about an electoral reform seem to be under way between the CNRP and the ruling CPP to end the deadlock which followed the July 2013 elections, when […]

The opposition CNRP Youth organised a set of traditional games at Wat Phnom ahead of Khmer New Year. It is about the only thing they can do unhindered…