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The day has come, after nearly two years, in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic, and overcoming many adversity, our dream of building a school for the Stateless Vietnamese Children living in Cambodia has come true. On November 1, 2021, we opened our school doors and began our first lesson for the children and their …
By Prak Chan ThulPHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh on Saturday began overseeing the dismantling of “floating home” communities on the banks of the Tonle Sap River over the objections of longtime residents who say they have nowhere else to go. For generations, the floating wooden houseboats of Phnom Penh have been …
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The next time you see a single penny on the ground, whether you make the effort to pick it up or not, I invite you to think of the two young sisters flanking Jocelyn and Mai Khanh in the photo below. What is the deal with a single penny, you ask? Because it takes each …
Exploited or Liberated…Your Call Entirely By Richard Botkin Read More »
Introduction Ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia represents the largest stateless group of people anywhere in the world. Many have lived in Cambodia for generations. Others came there on their way to escape Vietnam in 1975. Yet their plight is almost completely unknown and the world is largely unaware of their sufferings. As stateless people, ethnic …
Kampong Chhnang deputy provincial governor Sun Sovannarith reaffirmed that the 40ha the provincial authorities allocated to Vietnamese boat people is Cambodian national Ros Chamroeun’s private land. He said there was no cutting of land for them, but the Vietnamese immigrants will have to pay rent to live in the location with no right to own …
Land allotted for Kampong Chhnang boat people must be rented Read More »
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Thursday defended the actions of Cambodian authorities in relocating Vietnamese nationals living in houseboats on the Tonle Sap river in Kampong Chhnang province, saying the “volunteer” policy came on the back of “environmental” concerns. Sar Kheng who is also Deputy Prime Minister was commenting after Vietnamese Foreign Affairs Minister Pham …
Ethnic Vietnamese protest against residency blunder Government dismisses VN immigrant claims Kingdom rejects VN request Tonle Sap Vietnamese ‘reluctant’ to move Related Posts
Chong Koh.Andrea Frazzetta/Institute, for The New York Times Floating villages spread across the surface of the Mekong River’s waterways, playinghost to ethnic Vietnamese whose status in Cambodian society is perpetually adrift. By BEN MAUK MARCH 28, 2018 This article was written with the support of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The best handyman living among …
A People In Limbo, Many Living Entirely on the Water Read More »
More than two-thirds of around 2,300 ethnic Vietnamese families living in a “floating village” on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake have been evicted from their homes, a local official said Friday, despite concerns over a lack of infrastructure on the land demarcated for their relocation. Authorities have removed all but around 700 families from the lake …
Rina Chandran CHNOK TRU, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Troung Van Long is Vietnamese in name only. He was born in Cambodia and has lived there for decades, including many years in a floating house on the Tonle Sap Lake where he still lives. But his days on the water are numbered. Citing concerns over …
No room on water, no home on land for Cambodia’s ethnic Vietnamese Read More »
