Sex workers seek policy partners
Photo by: Sovann Philong
Sex workers wait for customers near Wat Phnom last month. A new report says more dialogue between sex workers and the government could lead to better anti-trafficking policies.
AREPORT released earlier this month that surveyed more than 1,000 female sex workers called for more consultation between government and NGO representatives and those [...]
Tourists to Siem Reap down 0.6pc in first half
SIEM Reap’s tourism department said the overall number of tourists visiting the province dropped slightly in the first six months of this year compared with the same period last year.
The department said the number of local tourists rose 11 percent to 692,000, which almost offset the 13-percent decline in foreign visitors.
Than Chhayvanna, deputy administrator of [...]
Bugtastic dining in the Penh
Photo by: SOVANN PHILONG
Down by the riverside: Intrepid Post reporter Marika Hill
We’ve all seen them. I’m guilty of screaming at them, running from them, and even stomping on them. The bugs and spiders that scamper about Cambodia are part of the city’s fabric.
But they are also part of the city’s edible delights.
The riverside [...]
Activists critique new effort to cut fondling of beer girls
Photo by: Tracey Shelton
A staff member serves drinks at a beer garden on Street 240 in Phnom Penh in this file photo.
A PILOT program designed to curtail attacks against beer girls has drawn criticism from several women’s rights activists, who argue that it does not engage beer girls directly.
The Non-Violent Workplace Initiative, sponsored by the [...]
Rebuilding the rights of starving music fans
IT’S not that I think the music scene in Phnom Penh is bland. It’s just that if I hear the turgid caterwaul of yet another distorted electric guitar playing yet another appalling medley of middle-of-the-road American pap rock, I might just do something drastic. I might just defenestrate a Stratocaster.
OK. So I do think the [...]
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