Archive: May 2022



STORY OF THE DAY • May 19, 2022 • 10 min read

Tonle Sap Lake Fishing crackdown disrupts Tonle Sap lives

By Photo reportage by Nigel Dickinson. Reporting by Fiona Kelliher and Chea Sameang • May 19, 2022
Overfishing prompted by environmental degradation leads to police action that residents say compounds the woes of struggling communities on Cambodia’s largest lake

STORY OF THE DAY • May 18, 2022 • 10 min read

Tonle Sap Lake Children on Tonle Sap face a hazy future

By Photo reportage by Nigel Dickinson. Reporting by Fiona Kelliher and Chea Sameang • May 18, 2022
As fish populations fall on Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, some students are forced to trade books for nets while others look to break tradition with new professions

May 16, 2022 • 3 min read
Education

A knowledge society: hopes and hurdles for the future of Cambodian education

A nation’s education system is one of the most telling metrics for future development and CDRI’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation continues to analyse Cambodia’s academic landscape to guide the formation of meaningful government policy
By Stew Post • May 16, 2022

May 13, 2022 • 3 min read
Landmines

Fighting fire with fire

A unique recycling programme in Cambodia repurposes remnants of war to clear the country of landmines and unexploded ordnance
By Anton L. Delgado • May 13, 2022

May 12, 2022 • 11 min read
Landmines

Recycling the remnants of war

A unique ‘explosive harvesting’ programme makes Cambodia safer by removing and repurposing unexploded bombs and landmines
By Anton L. Delgado • May 12, 2022

May 11, 2022 • 7 min read
Language

Queer language survives Cambodia’s history

Pia saa Sor has been widely used for decades among transgender people in northern provinces and dates back at least to the Khmer Rouge regime
By Fiona Kelliher • May 11, 2022