Cambodia

Children and a woman sit on a locally made vehicle in Laos as they travel during flooding caused by the collapse of a dam in the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydroelectric project in Attapeu Province.

Huge Flood From Failed Dam In Laos Has Now Spread To Cambodia

10:54am July 26, 2018

by Bill Chappell

The flooding has killed at least 27 people in Laos. In Cambodia, the Sekong River rose to nearly 12 meters (almost 40 feet) on Thursday — a height that flooded 17 villages.

Monovithya Kem's father, Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha, was jailed in September, after his party fared better than expected in local elections in June. "Dictators see free, fair elections as a threat," she tells NPR.

World News

'Fear Is Something Constant,' Says Daughter Of Jailed Cambodian Opposition Leader

3:43pm October 17, 2017

by Ashley Westerman

"Dictators see free, fair election as a threat," Monovithya Kem tells NPR. Her father, opposition leader Kem Sokha, is in jail on charges — which he denies — of trying to overthrow the government.

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The Sardar Sweet Shop in Varanasi, India, was built around a neem tree considered too holy to cut down. Customers flow in and out, barely noticing the imposing tree. In rural parts, people use the neem tree's leaves to repel insects, the sap for stomach

PHOTOS: Trees That Tell Stories About The World We Live In

9:16am October 15, 2017

by Sasha Ingber

In Wise Trees, a book by photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, you'll see a holy tree in the middle of an Indian candy shop, a communal tree in Mozambique, a tree of tragedy in Cambodia.

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks to garment workers during a visit to a factory outside Phnom Penh on Aug. 30. His government has slapped the English-language Cambodia Daily with a $6.3 million tax bill and ordered it to pay by Sept. 4. If it does

World News

In Cambodia, A Crackdown On Independent Media Threatens A Respected Daily

9:00am September 02, 2017

by Ashley Westerman

The government has told the English-language Cambodia Daily it must pay a $6.3 million tax bill by Sept. 4. The paper has long been a thorn in Prime Minister Hun Sen's side.

Villagers plant rice in Srekor village. Most residents of the village — which will be submerged when a new dam starts up — have been relocated.

'I Will Lose My Identity': Cambodian Villagers Face Displacement By Mekong Dam

5:18am August 26, 2017

by Michael Sullivan

Thousands are being displaced by new dam construction. "I cannot leave my ancestors here," says a woman whose village will be submerged by the dam. "If I abandon them, I won't know who I am."

This image, courtesy of The New York Times, shows New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg talking with colleague Dith Pran in the Times office in New York in 1980.

National

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Sydney Schanberg Dies At 82

4:40pm July 09, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The longtime New York Times foreign correspondent is best known for his raw, gripping coverage of Cambodia's fall to the Khmer Rouge. That reportage inspired the Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields.

Phan Sopheak, a rice farmer in Cambodia, rests shortly after a man wielding an axe attacked her. She had been patrolling the Prey Lang forest around her village with a volunteer group that is trying to stop illegal logging.

#EarthDay: The High Cost Of Eco-Activism

5:10pm April 22, 2016

by Nurith Aizenman

Why the world's poorest people are some of the most effective — and vulnerable — environmental activists.

A tiger in a rescue center in Cambodia in 2011.

Cambodia Launches Plan To Reintroduce 'Functionally Extinct' Tigers

7:50pm April 07, 2016

by Laura Wagner

A successful revival would mean not only a healthier and more balanced ecosystem, but it could also boost Cambodia's ecotourism, bringing more revenue to the national economy.

Health & Safety

Dying Tradition: The Men Who Catch Baby Elephants

3:00pm March 28, 2016

by Aisha Down

He has one elephant. He has named her "Shy Woman." And she is not just an elephant he lassoed and captured. She is his companion and confidant.

Yonta, 6, rests with her sister Montra, 3, and brother Leakhena, 4 months, under a mosquito bed net during monsoon season in July 2010, in Pailin province, Cambodia.

Obama's Upbeat Message About Ending Malaria Omits Discouraging Signs

5:02am January 17, 2016

by Susan Brink

His State of the Union address said we should be able to wipe out malaria. Progress has been enormous — but researchers are alarmed by new twists.