Cambodian villagers cry foul over loss of land to Vietnam

PHUM PREY TUOL, Cambodia – The goosebumps prickle on the arms of Cambodian rice farmer Em Chouen when he recalls how he lost his land, allegedly to Vietnamese soldiers who beat him with iron rods. "I was ploughing my fields when the Vietnamese came and accused me of taking the land," he says, speaking at…

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Cambodia’s golden-age architect looks back in wonder

Much of Asia’s architectural heritage is under threat as countries pursue rapid economic growth and often eschew preservation in favour of rapid modernisation. In Cambodia the threat is particularly acute, extending from the World Heritage-listed ancient temple complex of Angkor Wat to the buildings of the 1950s and ’60s, when the newly independent kingdom began…

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