Stories written by Robert Carmichael

POLITICS-CAMBODIA: Duch Defence Pushes Self-Destruct Button

"I would ask the chamber to release me. Thank you."

Mor Kim, 18, came to the capital last year to work in the garment sector. Such a decision generally has little to do with the economic crisis, says an education official. Credit: Vandeth Dararoath/IPS

CAMBODIA: Global Crisis Mostly Bypassing the Young – For Now

Mey Chamnan has learned the hard way about the global economic crisis. Both she and her husband were fired from their 50 U.S.-dollar a month jobs in a local garment factory after declining overseas orders caused huge job losses across Cambodia's garment industry.

DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: Resentment Rises with Urban Evictions

Tan Pho Yi, 65, has lived with his family in their corrugated iron home here in the Cambodian capital since 1992. Those 17 years came to an end in just 20 minutes when his family were evicted and their home torn down by City Hall's workers on Jul. 17.

CAMBODIA: Government Pulls Out Legal Weapons Against Dissent

These are tough times to be either a journalist or an opposition politician in Cambodia.

DEVELOPMENT: Cambodia Looks to Educate Youth About Painful Past

Walking through the former S21 security prison here, one cannot help but be struck by the hundreds of black-and-white photographs of former prisoners who were brought here, tortured, and then executed.



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