https://www.scmp.com/rss/328517/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Last August, 35-year-old Sophea sat on the edge of a wooden bed frame that occupied most of the single-room home she and her husband, Piseth, shared with their five children, who ranged in age from an infant son to an adult daughter. The smell of burning plastic from a nearby dump wafted into the tiny, tin-roofed house in a slum on the outskirts of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. Since Piseth lost a leg after stepping on a landmine while serving in the Cambodian army, the money from his... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3027882/cambodias-prisons-pregnant-women-and-young?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3027882/cambodias-prisons-pregnant-women-and-young?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:15:06 +0000 Most visitors to Cambodia are eager to see the ancient temple complex of Angkor or the beaches of Sihanoukville, but there is one sight they may want to shield their eyes from: mountains of plastic bags, bottles and styrofoam boxes. Despite remaining on the World Bank’s list of “least developed countries”, Cambodia has enjoyed solid economic growth in recent decades. The Southeast Asian nation has sustained an average GDP growth rate of 7.6 per cent over the last 20 years, the sixth highest in... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2162990/cambodian-designers-turning-trash-and-recyclables-high?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/2162990/cambodian-designers-turning-trash-and-recyclables-high?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:45:00 +0000