https://www.scmp.com/rss/323231/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When the inhabitants of Trapeang Rung learned in 2017 that a 1,000-hectare banana plantation would be established in their village by Longmate Agriculture and was set to provide hundreds of jobs, there was jubilation, recalls Kem Lot. The 59-year-old was hired by Longmate Agriculture in April 2018. For the villagers, Longmate’s banana farm represented an opportunity – a rarity in the rural bowels of coastal Kampot province – and Kem Lot, like many of his neighbours in the small farming... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3171792/china-wants-bananas-cambodias-banana-workers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3171792/china-wants-bananas-cambodias-banana-workers?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:15:22 +0000 Neang’s family has been torn apart by the controversial Lower Sesan 2 Dam, a massive hydroelectric project on the Sesan River, a major tributary of the Mekong, in northeastern Cambodia. Following years of encouragement, pressure and outright intimidation by authorities, her aunties and uncles – even her husband – all belonging to the Phnong indigenous ethnic group, accepted compensation and moved from their village to a government-designated resettlement site some 20km away. As the US$816... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/2150791/chinese-backed-hydroelectric-dam-robs-cambodian?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/2150791/chinese-backed-hydroelectric-dam-robs-cambodian?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Jun 2018 02:45:45 +0000 There aren’t many places in the world where scantily clad young women entertain the pious with a bit of pole dancing, but Taiwan is one of them. Coming across a convoy of jeeps atop which the girls do their thing as techno blasts out across the rice paddies, an outsider might be forgiven for suspecting the worst, but these women are dancing for the gods, in a ritual called “miào huì”, or “temple gathering”. Miào huì is associated with both the Buddhist and Taoist religions, which have become... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/2008921/pictures-women-who-pole-dance-gods-taiwan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/2008921/pictures-women-who-pole-dance-gods-taiwan?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Aug 2016 22:00:15 +0000