A demonstration ban from the Ministry of Interior, a sealed off Freedom Park and the equation of important riot police forces, few workers and a fair amount of observers or journalists (at times larger than the number of workers) showing up at Freedom Park resulted in an informal demonstration/meeting/gathering/protest in the garden adjacent to the […]
Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, CNRP co-presidents, presided over a workshop with various members of civil society about the elections reform. CPP members were invited but declined the offer. According to a research by Harvard and Sydney universities reported upon by an article in the Cambodia Daily, Cambodia’s 2013 election ranks ‘as the fifth most […]
In a remake of ‘You Couldn’t And Now You Can‘, the three women who were arrested yesterday and released later in the day, came back in front of City Hall to request a meeting with officials regarding a retroactive compensation for the land they lost at Boeung Kak lake. This time no arrests were made […]
Three women from Boeung Kak lake were arrested by municipal guards and thrown into a truck while they were waiting for the bulk of their community members to show up and deliver an invitation to attend a ceremony on Women’s Day to the city governor. An attempt later on to deliver the invitation to the […]
Little by little, a vast majority of the ‘hard’ land titles are being handed over to their owner, with land management clerks painstakingly checking and sifting through huge piles of documents. There are about 7 million land plots to be allocated to their rightfull owner… Fortunately for them. They now have some sort of security. […]
In a clear gesture of support to the opposition CNRP, Mrs. Lida, a French Khmer, donated, via media-savvy and human rights activist monk Luon Sovath, money and rice collected among the Khmer community in France to a whole series of families hit by the current political situation at Wat Samaky Rasmey this morning.
Choreographer Manou Phuon continues her investigation on how to use khmer boxer’s moves into a contemporary dance narrative with the dancers from Amrita Performing Arts. Particularly flattering as she got the kick to do it after seeing the photographs I took about Khmer boxing (see HERE). Those pictures were bundled in a small book, entirely […]
Prime Minister Hun Sen has lifted the ban on gatherings of more than 10 people. It is possible to have political demonstrations again. On both sides, be it CNRP or CPP. The CNRP could proceed unhindered with a meeting of 600 supporters in Sa’ang district, the same place where several army units and a few […]