https://www.scmp.com/rss/513520/feed Andrew Haffner is a journalist based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. With a background in daily newspaper reporting, Andrew now searches for deeper narratives across Southeast Asia. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The monk looks haggard in the midmorning sun, scanning the views through surrounding trees while chainsaws drone in the near distance. “It’s as if a storm has come and the animals have fled like there has been a hurricane,” he says from his sparse, open-air pagoda in the woods. “Now everything is destroyed, I don’t see a reason why I should stay.” With the early stages of a grey beard, the venerable Buddhist monk Prom Socheat draws in his orange robes as he tells of the loss of his home, where... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3191139/it-can-be-pretty-horrifying-how-cambodias-land?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3191139/it-can-be-pretty-horrifying-how-cambodias-land?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Sep 2022 23:15:15 +0000