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The pictures of the crowds on top of Bokor Mountain celebrating Khmer New Year are on my website… Enjoy here…

Khmer New Year is about having a good time: after a visit to Bokor Mountain, you HAVE to eat crab in Kep and take a nap…

Thousands of people took what today probably is the best road in Cambodia to the top of Bokor mountain to celebrate Khmer New Year, the year of the Dragon, near the casino built during the colonial times, leaving behind mounds of garbage. More about this on my website later this week.

The Boeung Kak residents are scared at night. They staged a press conference to denounce a deteriorating security situation in the neighbourhood. They claim that on the one hand there are no more police patrols which makes it easy for unoccupied buildings to be used by drug addicts or thieves, and on the other hand [...]

I updated the story ‘Cambodia Development Landscapes‘ with recent photographs.

Boeung Kak Lake residents (still) unhappy about the response from the Municipality regarding the outlining of the 12 hectares for an on-site development took to the streets again, pulling straw puppets representing municipal security guards. They threw salt on them so they would melt in hell. They threw chilis on them so they would burn [...]

Boeung Kak Lake residents were out in the heat to submit a petition to the municipality about the integration of families left out of the on-site development. In the afternoon lots of policemen were stationed at two of the three access roads to Boeung Kak. For nothing. Except to get hot… The residents decided not [...]

Yes, the women from Boeung Kak Lake and from Borei Keila did march the unauthorised march on International Women’s Day….