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Farmers set up water pumps along a canal to wait for water to be released from upstream to sustain their dryland paddy rice in Pursat province, January 2024. (CamboJA/Uon Chhin)

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Farmers Demand For Release of Water as Shortages Damage Dry Rice Fields

10 Feb 2024 2:06 PM|
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At least 760,000 hectares of dryland rice are planted in a few provinces, however, there is currently a scarcity of water to irrigate their fields, which is worrying farmers as they could fall deeper into debt.

Health services organization officials meet at a pagoda with current and former tuberculosis patients, as well as others with contact with the disease, to form a community group to combat the disease. Photo taken on September 14, 2021. Photo Supplied

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Former TB patients describe their experiences as fight to end the disease continues

30 Nov 2021 9:00 PM|

“Villagers and neighbors also discriminated against my family because they were afraid to be infected with tuberculosis from me,” Lida said.

Students leaving class at Chea Sim Boeung Keng Kang high school in Phnom Penh, Picture taken October 22, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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With grade 12 exam date set, students furiously studying

25 Nov 2021 8:39 AM|

After encountering plenty of hardship and uncertainty amid the COVID-19 pandemic, grade 12 students have begun preparing for the year-end final exams, which have been set for December 27.

Billboards advertising alcohol seen along main roads as commuters cross the Chamkarmon intersection in Phnom Penh, October 29, 2021. (Kann Vicheika/VOA Khmer)

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Advertising Buoys Alcohol Consumption, Concerning Some in Cambodia

17 Nov 2021 4:58 PM|

On every TV station, in every magazine, and on the billboards plastering Cambodia's road, seemingly nothing is advertised as ubiquitously as alcohol.

People carry their belongings out of their flooded home in Dangkor district’s Kongnoy commune in Phnom Penh, Picture taken October 26, 2021. CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

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Dangkor residents urge government to address worsening floods

9 Nov 2021 9:23 AM|

As they repair their homes after about a week of inundation late last month, residents of Phnom Penh’s southern Dangkor district are urging the government to address the area’s increasingly severe flooding.

Gasoline prices displayed at a gas station in Phnom Penh, November 4, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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High price of gasoline hits low-income informal workers hard

5 Nov 2021 4:48 PM|

Sitting on his motorcycle on the side of the road in Phnom Penh, 57-year-old moto taxi driver Moul Yi doesn’t dare to drive around in search of customers as he used to do. The price of gasoline, he says, is too high.

A girl lifts her brother for a temperature check before entering class in Phnom Penh. November 1, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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PM Hun Sen announces national reopening after nearly two years of pandemic woes

1 Nov 2021 9:19 PM|

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Monday morning a “new normal” for Cambodia, including an official reopening of all economic sectors, though it remains to be seen how quickly the economy will rebound after struggling through nearly two years of COVID-19.

Kak Sovann Chhay's mother Prum Chantha waves to her son as he is taken away in a prison van in front of the Municipal Court of Phnom Penh after his hearing, September 29, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Phnom Penh court sentences 16-year-old boy with autism to eight months

1 Nov 2021 7:37 PM|

The 16-year-old son of a member of the outlawed Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has been convicted of incitement and insulting public officials in a private Telegram group and through content shared on Facebook.

People carry their belongings out of their flooded home in Dangkor district's Kongnoy commune in Phnom Penh, October 26, 2021. CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

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Worsening floods drive Dangkor residents from their homes

27 Oct 2021 9:19 PM|

Families living in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district have been forced to leave their homes after the Prek Tnaot river overflowed. Authorities have also said that the 7 Makara Dam in the city’s south has also been leaking after being damaged by the high level of rainfall.

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Farmers Demand For Release of Water as Shortages Damage Dry Rice Fields

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