Month: March 2023

The human cost

After years of farming rice, Houn Chenda finally fulfilled her ambition of opening a shop at Angkor Wat last year, renting wedding outfits and costumes to tourists who pose for photos at the ancient temple complex. Unesco’s world heritage committee…

What’s it all about?

  Residents say authorities visited their stalls last summer and told them to leave before 2023. Others were given closer deadlines, with officials saying they had received two warnings in the last five years about development at the site. As compensation they…

Khvien village faces massive change

On September 12, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that the people who volunteered to leave the Angkor resort area would receive 20×30 metres of land, receive a one-level equity card for 10 years and make a contribution of 1,4 million…

Residents of Khvien village to be relocated

As reported in a November 2022 issue of The Guardian newspaper of the U.K. Mass evictions at Angkor Wat leave 10,000 families facing uncertain future Cambodian government claims ‘voluntary relocations’ needed for Unesco status, but stallholders say they are being…