Happy New Year, you're evicted!
Some pictures from last year: breakdancing at the community center, 7NG company representatives watching the event.
Note the prominently placed picture of the Prime Minister. Residents maintain that they are defending land that was given to them by the current administration, and defending it on their behalf ...
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Posted in current events, news, urbanization on Dec 31st, 2008
Above: families, friends, press waiting for the hearing to start. All pictures courtesy 'K'.
Thanks to efforts by families, community members, local and international activists/organizations, and regular press coverage, today's appeal hearing of Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun concluded with them being released (apparently on bail) as of late this ...
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Posted in current events, news, urbanization on Dec 29th, 2008
The 'Group 78' villagers right across from Dey Krahom (cheek to jowl with the site of the new Australian Embassy) have been told that if they don't get out by January 1st, they won't be given anything in compensation. They are on much shakier legal ground than their neighbors, having ...
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(Above: KFC on Monivong Boulevard)
It came as a small surprise when I read in the paper that fast food restaurants existed on Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Somehow the idea of interrogators stepping out of a prison waterboarding session for a latte seemed... incongruous. (The idea of them rewarding prisoners with ...
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Posted in news, urbanization on Apr 12th, 2008
In the States, the White House schedules press conferences for Fridays when the topic is one negative to the administration.
In Cambodia, it seems, negative actions are taken just before the holidays so people will be caught off guard. Activist Khem Sokha was arrested on New Years' Eve, 2005.
And just as ...
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