https://www.scmp.com/rss/324338/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Sen Bunthoeurn is stretching by the side of his nation’s only ice rink. “How are you feeling?” I ask. In reply, he mimes throwing up – three times for good measure. It’s safe to assume he’s nervous. Uplifting music blasts over a stereo system before a booming voice announces the making of history: “The first skater to represent Cambodia is Sen Bunthoeurn.” It’s mid-August and Sen Bunthoeurn, a member of Cambodia’s ice-skating team, is going through his paces at a dress rehearsal, having spent... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2123311/cambodias-figure-skaters-hope-emulate-jamaicas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2123311/cambodias-figure-skaters-hope-emulate-jamaicas?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Once filled with music, cooking smells, chatter, laughter and children playing, the hallways of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building are now being torn apart by bulldozers. One of the last examples of the modernist style epitomised by the bold New Khmer Architecture school in the 1960s, the White Building is making way for an upscale, 21-storey condominium block that will tower over homes and shops in the heart of the Cambodian capital. Many of the former residents, such as 62-year-old Chhey... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2106117/last-look-icon-cambodias-golden-age-it-bulldozed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2106117/last-look-icon-cambodias-golden-age-it-bulldozed?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 Aug 2017 04:46:12 +0000 In the weeks and months after the popular Cambodian political analyst Kem Ley was gunned down at a busy service station in the nation’s capital, his rural childhood home has turned into a pilgrimage site for scores of his supporters. Thousands are travelling Takeo province’s Tram Kak district, where a Buddhist ceremony was held on Sunday to mark one year since Kem Ley was shot dead as he drank his morning coffee, sparking a nationwide outpouring of grief. Cambodian leader’s civil war threat put... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2102021/cry-justice-cambodian-activists-death-anniversary?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2102021/cry-justice-cambodian-activists-death-anniversary?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:04:58 +0000 If Cambodian human rights worker Lim Mony wants to sleep at night, she must pay: up to US$200 a month to secure half a metre of space in the jail cell she shares with 39 other women. Mony, a 62-year-old grandmother, has spent the past year in Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Sar prison after being detained in what observers say is a politically motivated case. The grim realities of life in an overcrowded prison, where everything from electricity to food and water has its price, are beginning to crack... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2091177/human-rights-nobel-nomination-jailed-cambodians-shines-light?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2091177/human-rights-nobel-nomination-jailed-cambodians-shines-light?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:00:15 +0000