Borin Sopheavuthtey

Land rights

Indigenous Cambodians choose between credit and communal land

Collective land titles offer protection to indigenous villages, but restrictions lead some to embrace individual property
By Jack Brook and Borin Sopheavuthtey - Nov 11, 2021

Green Economy

Capitalism in a nutshell, the growth of cashews in Cambodia

There were few cashew trees in northeast Cambodia 30 years ago, but now the burgeoning nut industry is part of the region’s link to the global economy
By Jack Brook and Borin Sopheavuthtey - Nov 04, 2021

Covid-19

‘The poor won’t survive’: Lockdown hits Phnom Penh’s hand-to-mouth workers

Cambodia had avoided the worst health effects of the pandemic until recent months. Now, with Phnom Penh under an ever-stricter lockdown as cases spiral, it's the capital's thousands of informal, hand-to-mouth workers who are suffering as they are locked inside
By Andrew Haffner and and Borin Sopheavuthtey - Apr 26, 2021