https://www.scmp.com/rss/319987/feed Marta Kasztelan is an independent filmmaker and journalist focused on human rights, radical groups and environmental issues in Asia and Europe. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Cambodian environmental activist Ly Chandaravuth spent five months in pre-trial detention on charges of “plotting” before he was released on bail pending trial. Since then, he has spent many more months looking over his shoulder. In recent years, authorities have jailed at least 11 Mother Nature activists and arrested dozens more. The group’s founder has also been deported. Facing a possible prison sentence, will Ly Chandaravuth be forced to abandon his activism? This story was produced in... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3262569/cambodian-environmental-activist-ly-chandaravuth-fights-nature-and-his-freedom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3262569/cambodian-environmental-activist-ly-chandaravuth-fights-nature-and-his-freedom?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 May 2024 03:08:04 +0000 It’s laundry day and 34-year-old Tha Sara is going through a pile of colourful garments, arranged neatly on her slender canoe. Docked near the banks of the mighty Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia, just below the border with Laos, the tiny boat rocks gently as Tha Sara pours water from the washing basin back into the river. From the banks, where lush canopies shoot up into the sky, two of Tha Sara’s three children – a girl and a boy – watch on. The 12-year-old chats to her while the timid... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3223573/how-dams-china-are-destroying-livelihoods-downstream-cambodia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3223573/how-dams-china-are-destroying-livelihoods-downstream-cambodia?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:15:14 +0000 As the January sun sets over verdant rice fields somewhere in Cambodia’s western Pursat province, Kunthea’s two-year-old clamours onto her lap. Sitting on a daybed, clad in a black and orange tie-dye T-shirt, she is quietly savouring a moment with one of her two children. They are the reasons, after divorcing her first husband in 2020, she picked up a job at a toy factory in central Cambodia, even though that meant leaving her children in her cousin’s care halfway across the country. But as the... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3189508/i-was-screaming-help-sold-brides-china-few?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3189508/i-was-screaming-help-sold-brides-china-few?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:15:20 +0000 Sixteen-year-old Guizhou native Guo Ying had just finished eating dinner one evening last February when her best friend announced that the car taking them to work further south in China had arrived. Recruited on social media by someone her friend had met while gaming, the teens had little information about the job and were initially reluctant to get into the vehicle. The young women, who lived independently from their families, knew only that it involved typing, a skill both had perfected while... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3165149/online-fraud-how-chinese-nationals-forced-run?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3165149/online-fraud-how-chinese-nationals-forced-run?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:15:11 +0000 Sliding through his smartphone photo gallery, Lokman Hakim proudly shows off his 27 children – 15 from his first wife, eight from the second, one from the third and three from his fourth. The 47-year-old Malay considers himself fortunate because so many women agreed to enter into a polygamous union with him. While such an arrangement is legal in Malaysia, it is largely frowned upon in the moderate Muslim country. “That’s life. It’s just something you have to go through,” explains Lokman, as he... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1840091/polygamy-inc-how-global-ikhwan-becoming-lifestyle-choice?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1840091/polygamy-inc-how-global-ikhwan-becoming-lifestyle-choice?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Jul 2015 14:30:30 +0000