https://www.scmp.com/rss/14511/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Cambodia’s Angkor Wat is bouncing back, with an eco-friendly face. Siem Reap, the gateway to the ruins of Angkor, aims to triple its number of international tourist arrivals over the next 15 years and use this tourism revenue to accelerate rural development, under a development plan drafted in the first year of the pandemic. A US$150 million makeover of the city was completed in March, including widening and adding roads and highways, expanding broadband access, and creating bicycle lanes along... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3179440/cambodias-reopened-siem-reap-sets-its-sights-quality-tourist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3179440/cambodias-reopened-siem-reap-sets-its-sights-quality-tourist?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 May 2022 04:00:22 +0000 The number of people testing positive for the virus that causes Aids in a remote area of northwestern Cambodia is continuing to climb, as migrant workers who had been patients of a doctor facing murder charges over the outbreak return to their villages for testing, local officials said. More than 160 people from Roka commune had tested HIV-positive at Battambang provincial hospital by Christmas Eve, sources said, ranging from infants to the elderly and including Buddhist monks. Staff at the... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1668794/cambodian-hiv-outbreak-grows-migrant-workers-return-tests?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1668794/cambodian-hiv-outbreak-grows-migrant-workers-return-tests?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:18:51 +0000 Many of Yem Chrin's former patients still refer to him as "the good doctor", but others say the life sentence he faces for allegedly infecting more than 140 people in a Cambodian village with HIV is not enough. "We want to kill him," said Seoum Chhorm, 63, a member of the commune council that includes Roka village in the remote northwest Cambodian province of Battambang. He was speaking at the home he mortgaged, along with his rice fields, to pay medical fees to the doctor this year. The burden... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1668525/good-doctor-cambodian-village-faces-life-sentence-allegedly-infecting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1668525/good-doctor-cambodian-village-faces-life-sentence-allegedly-infecting?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:33:27 +0000 Myanmar's swift economic development has been marked by the rise of a new class of political dissidents: the ploughing protesters. They are farmers and activists angry that developers have snatched away farmland, rights groups say. Five farmers were arrested on January 2 for trespassing on land they had been farming for decades - the day after President Thein Sein announced on national radio that all of Myanmar's political prisoners had been freed, said Nay Myo Zin, a former military captain who... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1465825/ploughing-protesters-highlight-land-grab-grievances-myanmar?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1465825/ploughing-protesters-highlight-land-grab-grievances-myanmar?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Apr 2014 22:16:09 +0000 On October 12, 2011, a guard approached the cell of prisoner 7021/C, and said, "I have good news brother. You have been ordered released." Saw Thet Tun refused to believe him. He had 10 years left of a 22-year sentence, his second, for writing and distributing a pro- democracy pamphlet. The guard kept repeating the statement. "Don't joke with me. Please don't joke with me," Saw Thet Tun pleaded. It was a common reaction by those who had been imprisoned for protesting against the country's... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1465826/freed-prisoners-myanmar-now-living-jail-mind?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1465826/freed-prisoners-myanmar-now-living-jail-mind?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Apr 2014 22:16:09 +0000 The businessman behind a groundbreaking plan to introduce workers from Myanmar to Hong Kong's scandal-hit domestic helper sector says the country's government is being "vigilant" about protecting their rights. As controversy continues over the treatment of domestic helpers in the SAR, Oake Khaung, the founder of Yangon recruitment company Gold Mine Manpower, said the official paperwork for the first group of 19 workers - who are due to arrive next week - had still not been completed, signalling... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1424339/myanmar-vigilant-over-maids-says-man-who-plans-bring-them-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1424339/myanmar-vigilant-over-maids-says-man-who-plans-bring-them-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:15:00 +0000 Two weeks before he and his 21-year-old son were shot dead, Cambodian journalist Khim Sambo reported on a not-uncommon topic in opposition-affiliated newspapers. When gamblers from the upper echelons of the ruling Cambodia People's Party (CPP), accompanied by armed bodyguards or police, have prolonged losing streaks, it sometimes erupts in anger and even violence. 'When they lose, and cannot borrow more from the casino, they arrest the casino owners,' he wrote under one of his numerous... https://www.scmp.com/article/654844/cold-blood?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/654844/cold-blood?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:00:00 +0000 A handful of western rights monitors and documentary filmmakers have embedded themselves within a community facing eviction on the doorstep of the national assembly, as Cambodia's epidemic of land grabbing enters its fourth year. German filmmaker Nana Yuriko started sleeping at Dey Krahorm village as an act of 'pure solidarity'. 'If they can sleep here, why can't I? The families feel protected while we're here,' she said. Australian Chris BakerEvens said he was moved to act by 'the... https://www.scmp.com/article/625237/foreigners-join-villagers-fight-against-eviction?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/625237/foreigners-join-villagers-fight-against-eviction?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:00:00 +0000 Phnom Penh After almost two decades spent meticulously documenting - and encouraging - Cambodia's return to normalcy after Pol Pot's genocidal years, director Rithy Panh finally may have finished with the Khmer Rouge. This month, he'll focus on another troubling, if less horrific, period in his country's modern history: the days of French colonial rule. 'Now everyone wants to talk about the Khmer Rouge,' Panh says. 'Everyone wants to tell that story. But we did that years ago. The question... https://www.scmp.com/article/608948/panhs-labyrinth-sheds-light-darkest-days?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/608948/panhs-labyrinth-sheds-light-darkest-days?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:00:00 +0000 UN, Cambodia in joint project to protect a national treasure and tackle poverty A team of UN experts is arriving in northeastern Cambodia this month to help craft a tourism development plan to save the last of the Mekong River's dolphins by turning a 200km stretch of the river into a leading eco-tourism destination. 'The Mekong River dolphin is a treasure we must protect. It is the second tourism icon of Cambodia, after Angkor Wat,' said Thok Sokhum, the Cambodian tourism official overseeing... https://www.scmp.com/article/601064/tourism-offers-hope-mekongs-rare-dolphins?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/601064/tourism-offers-hope-mekongs-rare-dolphins?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000