Cambodia’s hidden legacy: landmines still a threat
INTRO: During nearly 3 decades of armed conflict, the Khmer Rouge, as well as the Vietnamese and Cambodian Armed Forces, laid an estimated 4 to 6 million landmines throughout Cambodia. The country is now at peace but the casualties continue. In 2010 alone, landmines in Cambodia injured a reported 215 civilians. 71 were killed. The...
Children in orphanages are not tourist attractions
INTRO: “Children in orphanages are not tourist Attractions”. That’s the slogan of a new campaign in Cambodia aiming to put an end to what has become known as “orphanage tourism”. The campaign run by a local child rights group argues that despite good intentions, tourist visits to orphanages do more harm than good and support...
Boeung Kak activists fear violence, arrests
INTRO: After intense pressure from the World Bank, the Cambodian government granted a small plot of land to a thousand families facing eviction from a lake in the center of the capital. The residents have been fighting a long battle with a government-linked development company that wants the land to build luxury housing. Already more...
