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A City Bus drives along a street in Phnom Penh on January 12, 2024. (CamboJA/ Pring Samrang)

Op-Ed: Why Phnom Penh’s City Bus Struggles to Gain Ridership

While driving through Phnom Penh, it is not uncommon to spot public buses making their way down major boulevards with virtually zero passengers, even during peak traffic hours. No image can better represent the current state of Phnom Penh’s disjointed public bus system than the visual of these empty buses surrounded by, and at times blocking, clusters of smaller vehicles as they squeeze through the busy roads. 
A picture posted on Facebook by former Oknha Duong Chhay, wearing a white shirt and black pants, to declare he had left the monkhood on May 17.

Accused wife-beater Duong Chhay faces stalled investigation after leaving monkhood

Phnom Penh police are still waiting on an order from the prosecutor’s office before they can continue their investigation of accused wife-beater Duong Chhay following the disgraced tycoon’s decision to leave the monkhood on Monday. Police had initially declined to question Chhay, who was caught on camera violently attacking his wife, after the tycoon publicly declared he was entering a monastery.