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Construction of the funeral pire for King Norodom Sihanouk’s cremation on February 4th is going making progress…

Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, fighting to keep their land since 2008 (here and here), hearing Prime Minister Hun Sen saying at a land titles distribution ceremony that people with land issues should come to him, took him at his word and tried to march to ‘Peace Palace’. A police blockade prevented them from leaving their […]

The ‘Development Landscapes’ set which you can visit here on my website, has a few more recent photographs. ‘Development Landscapes’ brings together pictures from places people were evicted from over the past ten years in Phnom Penh. The story is part of the ‘Quest for Land’ application for the iPad you can purchase (for 8.99$) […]

Holidays are tough. Can’t resist taking photographs…

This is the second year in a row there will be no Water Festival. Last year because of the Koh Pich tragedy, this year because of King Norodom Sihanouk’s passing away. So we stay here, in Kep, as an alternative.

Enjoy them BIG: the photographs (except this one) of the demonstrations around ASEAN were bundled into one story on my website. See them here…

For the third consecutive day (see also here, here and here), members of Boeung Kak, Borei Keila and Pochentong Airport communities demonstrated in the filled-up Boeung Kak, in front – but at considerable distance – of the ‘Peace Palace’ where the ASEAN meetings take place, urging U.S. President Barack Obama to support them in the […]

The Boeung Kak Lake community continued the demonstration started the same morning in favour of Human Rights on the sands pumped in the lake by the company which evicted 3/4 of the 4000 inhabitants of the area. A big S.O.S. sign was lit with candles and overflown several times by helicopters securing the arrival of […]