Cambodia News: Boeung Kak

British producer and Bedroom Community label head James Holden — who takes a call for an interview with Exclaim! from his West London studio...

Tucked away in a neglected slum area near Boeung Kak Lake, a young aspiring football coach is harnessing the power of sport for social empowerment and to ...

Filmed over six years, from 2009 to 2015, Irish director Chris Kelly's observational documentary A Cambodian Spring tracks a community livin...

A man was killed when the gasoline he was transporting caught fire after he crashed his motorbike at 10am on Thursday in Boeung Kak I commune in the ...

THE Ministry of Health on Monday ordered the immediate closure of the capital's Victoria International Hospital for allegedly holding a patient and her family ...

Tep Vanny is locked up in Cambodia simply for standing up against a luxury construction project that's seen 1000s of families lose their homes. Read more.

More than 10 family members and supporters of detained alleged filmmaker Rath Rott Mony gathered outside the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Phnom ...

The government is going ahead with its plans to revamp part of Phnom Penh's largest water reservoir into a vegetable market, despite complaints from villagers, ...

In fact, this is when Phnom Penh became known as the Pearl of Asia. Much of the French colonial architecture is still alive, too, and can be explored to this day.

The Grassroots Democratic Party wants the government to keep Boeng Tamouk lake as the last large natural lake rather than having part of it filled for ...

The area around Boeung Tamouk Lake, in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, will be built into a massive market to centralise the supply of locally grown and imported ...

The Kingdom's construction sector has seen a 20 per cent fall in capital investment this year compared to last year, while the government collected nearly $100 ...

The wife of detained alleged filmmaker Rath Rott Mony and a number of Boeung Kak land activists filed a petition on Tuesday at the Embassy of the Russian ...

Earlier this year, the World Bank reiterated that Cambodia's GDP growth will stay above 6 percent through 2020.

Several hundred participants gathered in the capital's Democracy Square on Monday to mark 70 years since the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human ...

At a press conference to conclude her 11-day visit to Cambodia, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia Rhona Smith on Thursday called for ...

The Kith Meng-owned Royal Group on Thursday signed a joint venture agreement with Singaporean-based HLH Development Pte Ltd to construct a 12-storey ...

Phnom Penh's Tuol Kork district is projected to see a threefold increase in the supply of apartments for rent, which is predicted to reach a total of 5000 units in the ...

Phnom Penh's Dangkor district administration will tear down illegal houses and shops built on the bank of Prek Thnot river, said its administrative director Mok ...

As a new business concept that entered Cambodia three years ago, the container market became quite popular as a place for entertainment and shopping.

Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Kem Sokha (L) embraces National Election Committee official Ny Chakrya at the General Department of Prisons in ...

In the run up to its screening at this year's FreedomFilmFest, Southeast Asia Globe speaks to the director of 2017 documentary A Cambodian Spring, which ...

Phnom Penh, once known for its French colonial villas and modernist “New Khmer Architecture,” is becoming unrecognizable.

Putting an index finger on his lips as a shush sign before giving instructions for a football training, Tith Sovannara, 23, stood among a group of children in a ...

Just four days after stepping out of Prey Sar prison thanks to a royal pardon, land activist Tep Vanny was back in court on Friday facing a charge related to a ...

A verdict in James Ricketson's trial has been delayed, but two journalists accused of espionage were released on bail, and four jailed land rights activists were ...

Prime Minister-designate Hun Sen on Thursday hinted that he could soon request that a royal pardon is issued for 12 imprisoned members of the ...

Boeung Kak community land activist Tep Vanny was freed from Prey Sar prison on Monday night after a release warrant was issued by Phnom Penh Municipal ...

Famous land activist Tep Vanny freed in Cambodia as post-election pardons are granted while two former RFA journalists get a sniff of freedom.

It is exactly two years since Cambodia's prominent human rights defender Tep Vanny was jailed after protesting against the imprisonment of a group of rights ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged authorities in the Kingdom to immediately release prominent land rights activist Tep Vanny whom they claim has ...

Land activist and human rights defender Tep Vanny has been unjustly detained for two years as of today, for defending the rights of the Boeung Kak Lake ...

Cambodian authorities should quash the politically motivated conviction of prominent land rights activist Tep Vanny and unconditionally release her.

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) has released an observational report on the rights of woman defendant's at the Appeal Court, claiming that ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - At the Toul Kork Primary School in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh volunteers swept classrooms and laid out wooden desks on ...

The CPP has used many slogans during its campaign, including perhaps the most ubiquitous: “A CPP Win Means the Whole of Cambodia Wins”.

About 30 people involved in the long-running land dispute in Borei Keila and Boeung Kak lake demonstrated in front of the home of Suy Sophan, the owner of ...

The campaign season is now underway in the Kingdom and at least three political parties have included in their platform promises to release the “political ...

Chinese companies are taking out swathes of Cambodia on 99-year leases, largely to the exclusion of average Cambodians. Tags: Cambodia debt, Chinese ...

Blame is being passed around on the cause of flooding along the Boeung Trabek canal which inundated people's homes after two consecutive days of heavy ...

Faced with land grabs, displacement and little recourse, Cambodian communities are turning to curses to challenge an authoritarian regime and powerful ...

Phnom Penh was inundated on Monday evening as a heavy thunderstorm, lasting more than an hour, lashed the city. Flood waters reached waist-high at parts ...

Three activists fight to save their homes from being bulldozed in a documentary stymied by its awkward pacing.

Director Chris Kelly took nine years to complete this remarkable film about land-rights protests and political skullduggery in Cambodia. The subject matter may ...

In 2013, thousands took to the streets in Cambodia protesting against the re-election of long-serving prime minister Hun Sen in what some optimistically saw as ...

WHEN CHRIS KELLY went on a trip to Cambodian in 2006 he wasn't expecting to end up spending most of the next decade there filming what would become ...

The future of Cambodia's last truly independent newspaper is in peril.

Chris Kelly has an interesting tale to tell in this singular documentary. Filmed over six long years in Cambodia, the picture kicks up questions about property ...

Nine years in the making, Chris Kelly's A Cambodian Spring documents six years of popular protest against forced evictions under the Hun Sen-led government ...

Derry director Chris Kelly believes that anyone with any sense of moral justice would be angered by the events depicted in his documentary, A Cambodian ...

Boeung Kak community land activist Tep Vanny is making another bid for release in a case that sent her to prison over a 2013 protest outside the home of Prime ...

Boeung Kak activists and family members of jailed protest leader Tep Vanny submitted a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen's cabinet on Tuesday asking for her ...

A handful of Boeung Kak residents this morning attempted to file a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen's cabinet asking for the release of fellow activist Tep Vanny ...

The Cambodia National Rescue Movement, founded by former opposition leader Sam Rainsy, has urged people to stop drinking Vital Premium Water.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 30-month sentence for land activist Tep Vanny on charges relating to a 2013 protest outside Prime Minister Hun ...

Boeung Kak was once the largest urban lake in Cambodia and was in the north of Phnom Penh with a vibrant community living on its edges. Then along came ...

Twenty-two families who were still protesting their evictions from the Boeung Kak lake area accepted offers from the city today, leaving 10 holdouts remaining ...

The families who once lived around Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh have been protesting since 2007. Thousands have been relocated over the past decade ...

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the convictions and six-month sentences of three Boeung Kak activists – including Tep Vanny – for allegedly obstructing ...

Between 2008 and 2012, a vast lake in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh was made to vanish. The thriving ecosystem was filled in with sand, and the local ...

Construction workers, supervisors and janitors working on a massive mixed-use development at the former Boeung Kak lake protested outside the site yesterday ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday directed Phnom Penh Governor Khoung Sreng to quickly resolve land dispute claims by seven families residing in the ...

Tep Vanny stood beside four effigies on a dusky evening last August, marshalling other Boeung Kak residents to light incense sticks, hold lotus stems and throw ...

The capital now has its second large-scale container market, this time in the Boeung Kak neighbourhood. Constructed on land once submerged by the city's ...

A company run by Singaporean investors has entered into a $71 million joint venture agreement to develop 1 hectare of land on what was previously Boeng Kak ...

Jailed activist Tep Vanny yesterday maintained her innocence and called on the judge to overturn her conviction in a hearing at the Appeal Court yesterday, ...

The container market is undoubtedly proving to be a popular venue in Phnom Penh, with the latest container market set to spring up in the Boeung Kak area.

The Pearl of Asia. Paris of the East. The monikers are today synonymous with Phnom Penh under the French and the Golden Era under Prince Norodom ...

A Cambodian Spring, a new feature-length documentary by filmmaker Chris Kelly, chronicles the turbulent evictions at Boeung Kak, the political evolution of ...

Cambodian activists fighting plans to transform Phnom Penh's largest lake into a luxury development made a tactical decision when they took to the streets: put ...

Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday washed its hands of the decadelong contentious Boeung Kak lake issue, saying it was closing its conflict resolution process, ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Graffiti in Cambodia has not historically been very common, but that's changing fast due to the city's relatively young and ...

The Appeal Court yesterday upheld a municipal court decision to sentence prominent land activist Tep Vanny and three others to six months in prison in relation ...

Land activist Tep Vanny was yesterday found guilty and sentenced to 30 months in prison for allegedly ordering an attack on Daun Penh security guards some ...

Obscured by shop houses, construction works, and boreys, the massive lake that is Boeung Tumpun can go easily unnoticed by those unfamiliar with the area.

Ten years ago this week, Phnom Penh City Hall and the development firm Shukaku Inc announced an agreement to transform the Boeung Kak lake area into a ...

Housewives-turned-protesters and a man who refuses to move despite being walled off from access to water are among those profiled on Get Rea!

While big cities like Bangkok and Yangon eye the potential of railway expansions to enhance public transportation services, Phnom Penh authorities seem to ...

Hundreds of Cham Muslims protesting a divisive road to be built on the land of a Boeung Kak mosque this weekend appealed to higher powers for intervention: ...

Work has temporarily halted on a road traversing the Boeung Kak mosque after scores of angry worshippers on Friday tore down a temporary metal fence ...

Four Boeung Kak lake activists were convicted and sentenced to six months in jail yesterday for their roles in a 2011 scuffle with security personnel outside City ...

Four Boeung Kak lake activists, including recently jailed community leader Tep Vanny, will face trial next month for a five-year-old case of insulting and ...

Boeung Kak lake activists Tep Vanny and Bov Sophea were convicted yesterday of insulting a public official, a sharp reduction from the far more serious charge ...

Cambodian authorities jailed a pair of Boeung Kak Lake activists today for their role in a “Black Monday” protest after charging them with incitement to commit a ...

Twenty-four hours after their arrest, two Boeung Kak lake activists remained at Daun Penh district police station, while a Spanish national was briefly detained ...

The development of former Boeung Kak Lake in central Phnom Penh has been one of the most controversial and, at the same time, one of the most ambitious ...

Simone Bistrot and Art – set up two years ago ostensibly in a bid to reinvigorate the former backpacker haven at Boeung Kak lake and turn it into an “art village” ...

Luc Forsyth and Gareth Bright have set out on a journey to follow the Mekong river from sea to source. The Diplomat will be sharing some of the stories they've ...

Villagers evicted by the development of Boeung Kak lake took their protest to the World Bank headquarters in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding to meet with ...

Eight years after CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin signed off on a 99-year lease of Boeng Kak lake in one of the most controversial real estate deals in Phnom ...

What does the recent rejuvenation of the 'old lakeside' mean for property development? Few neighbourhoods have such a traumatic recent history as the ...

Three imprisoned land activists intentionally injured themselves on Friday in an alleged suicide attempt after being confined in their cell for two days, according ...

Developer Shukaku Inc almost certainly won't begin planned drainage work at its Boeung Kak site this month because the government has yet to approve its ...

Local developer Shukaku will step up construction of its controversial Boeung Kak lake development project this month, beginning work on a drainage system ...

After the loss of the lake that drew thousands of backpackers, plans are afoot to turn the area around Street 93 into a graffiti-filled 'art village'

The Singapore-listed developer that entered into a purchase agreement for 1.3 hectares of land at Boeung Kak lake – the site where thousands of families have ...

Cambodia's Court of Appeals on Friday reduced the prison term of a Phnom Penh housing rights activist but upheld her conviction in a decision her lawyer said ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA—In 1979, Phan Chhunreth ventured to Phnom Penh after toiling for nearly four years in a Khmer Rouge labour camp. Pol Pot's ...

In Cambodia, public fury over land grabs puts China in the spotlight.

AMID cheers and the odd tear, a band of 13 women—a dowdy lot of impoverished middle-aged mothers, homemakers, and a grandmother—were set free by a ...