Economists, merchants and the National Bank have wanted to de-dollarize Cambodia for years. The global pandemic might have done the trick. The health crisis supercharged the Kingdom’s move to digital payments and cashless transactions, and the numbers are staggering: A record $76 billion…
Author: Martin
U.N. Caught in Temple Turf War
Angkor Evictions The Kingdom’s messy land rights battles are spilling into global view. Amnesty International has petitioned U.N. cultural authorities to intervene in mass evictions underway at Angkor Archeological Park, where authorities have removed more than 2,000 families since November,…
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…
The impacted area
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…
Denham Court Anglican Church in Australia supports Rice4Life
The Parish Council of the historic church in New South Wales have unanimously adopted a motion to support a young family in Khvien village to be re-housed in Run Ta Ek.
Assistance to a Khvien village household
Friends of Rice4Life have united to assist a family relocated to Run Ta Ek
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…
TO ALL SUPPORTERS OF RICE4LIFE
TO ALL SUPPORTERS OF RICE4LIFE Firstly, may we thank you for your valued support over nearly fifteen years to our work of helping the village schools of Khvien, Kok Beng and Kok Tachan in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. Over the…