| River protection groups and villagers along the Sesan River in Ratanakkiri province have appealed to halt the Lower Sesan Dam II project, insisting more studies are needed on the dam's impact on community livelihoods. The appeal followed the government's approval of the dam project during a Vietnam-Cambodia investment conference in Phnom Penh last month. |
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When Chen Sokha was a young girl, she found herself, through circumstance and bad luck, an orphan, and a scavenger at Phnom Penh’s notorious Stung Meanchey dump. Things went poorly from Day One.
“While I was scavenging on the side of the trash hill, a bulldozer pushed the trash down and the trash covered one of my legs,” she said in a recent interview, recalling the day years before. |
| Reach Sambath, a seasoned reporter, revered journalism mentor and an
important public liaison for the Khmer Rouge tribunal to the public,
died on Wednesday from an apparent stroke. Reach Sambath started his career as a reporter for the Agence France-Presse, where he earned the respect of his fellow journalists and sources alike. He studied under a prestigious scholarship at Columbia University in New York before becoming a journalism instructor at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. |
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A young business leader says Cambodian universities must do better to develop young entrepreneurs, rather than teaching students to become good employees.
“In schools, they teach young people how to find jobs, but why don't they teach them how to run their own businesses?” said Chy Sila, president of the Junior Chamber International Cambodia, as a guest on “Hello VOA” Monday. |
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The majority of Cambodians have little understanding of the causes of climate change, due to a lack of information, a new poll has found.
In a survey by the BBC World Service Trust of 2,401 Cambodians from all walks of life, about 85 percent said they had heard of climate change, although they associated it with disease, farming troubles and drought. |
| Lao villagers living along the Mekong river say their livelihood would be harmed by the proposed Xayaburi dam in their country if it is built as planned. Villagars voiced their concerns after the meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) failed to decide if the dam project should go ahead. VOA Khmer's Pich Samnang reports from Vientiane, Laos. |
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A documentary showing the possible impacts of hydropower dams on the Mekong was screened in Phnom Penh Tuesday night, a week after Mekong countries failed to decide on a dam proposed in Laos.
About 200 people, most of them students, watched the film, “Where Have All the Fish Gone?: Killing the Mekong Dam by Dam,” which was directed by journalist Tom Fawtrop and screened at Pannasastra University in the capital. |
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It is not the case that young people in Cambodia do not want to participate in social activities, but the problem is that the possibility and opportunity for their participation is still not widespread, according to a young leadership champion. “Youth's access to information seems limited,” said Chhem Pe, a 2009 champion of Youth Leadership Challenge, a local reality TV show. |
| Evicted people in Spean Chhes, Sihanouk province continue to live desperately in squatters near the land they were evicted two years ago in the beach city. VOA Khmer's Pich Samnang reports from Sihanouk province. |
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Cambodia is building up its rural infrastructure in an effort to link itself to its neighbors, under an “economic corridor” project aided by the Asian Development Bank. Proponents of the southern economic corridor, part of the Greater Mekong Subregion project, say it will bring benefits to villagers like those in Kampong Thom district’s Sambo Prey Kuk temple, in Prasat Sambo district. |
