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The festival celebrating China-Cambodia cultural heritage : step into history at Factory Phnom Penh News

The festival celebrating China-Cambodia cultural heritage : step into history at Factory Phnom Penh

This September, Factory Phnom Penh becomes a bridge between two ancient civilizations. The "Heritage Homeland · Beauty Shared" China-Cambodia Cultural Heritage Festival, jointly organized

By Melissa Chenda · · 3 min read
Sand dredging on the Mekong resumes despite a two-year ban News

Sand dredging on the Mekong resumes despite a two-year ban

Barges are working again off Kandal province, seven kilometres from a village that lost twelve houses to the river in 2024. Provincial officials say the permits are “under review”.

By Melissa Chenda · · 1 min read
Inside the neighbourhoods holding on News

Inside the neighbourhoods holding on

The barges arrive after dark. From the bank at Prek Ambel you hear them before you see them — a low diesel hum, then the slap of

By Melissa Chenda · · 2 min read
Phnom Penh faces the car boom News

Phnom Penh faces the car boom

The barges arrive after dark. From the bank at Prek Ambel you hear them before you see them — a low diesel hum, then the slap of

By Melissa Chenda · · 1 min read
Tonlé Sap fishers report a third short season News

Tonlé Sap fishers report a third short season

The barges arrive after dark. From the bank at Prek Ambel you hear them before you see them — a low diesel hum, then the slap of

By Melissa Chenda · · 1 min read
Bus lane, first morning Video

Bus lane, first morning

The barges arrive after dark. From the bank at Prek Ambel you hear them before you see them — a low diesel hum, then the slap of

By Melissa Chenda · · 1 min read
Who owns the land behind the airport road? News

Who owns the land behind the airport road?

Eleven plots, four shell companies and one signature that appears on all of them.

By Melissa Chenda · · 2 min read
Tonlé Sap, low water Video

Tonlé Sap, low water

The barges arrive after dark. From the bank at Prek Ambel you hear them before you see them — a low diesel hum, then the slap of

By Melissa Chenda · · 2 min read
The recruitment fees no one will admit to charging News

The recruitment fees no one will admit to charging

Workers leaving for Thailand describe paying up to $700 for jobs advertised as free.

By Melissa Chenda · · 1 min read
Inside the Kampot pepper cartel dispute News

Inside the Kampot pepper cartel dispute

A protected-origin label, two competing associations, and a price farmers say they never see.

By Melissa Chenda · · 2 min read
A lake was filled in. Two hundred families are still waiting News

A lake was filled in. Two hundred families are still waiting

Compensation was promised in 2021. We tracked what arrived, and to whom.

By Melissa Chenda · · 2 min read
The night the river took twelve houses News

The night the river took twelve houses

The barges arrive after dark. From the bank at Prek Ambel you hear them before you see them — a low diesel hum, then the slap of

By Melissa Chenda · · 2 min read