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Denise Hruby

Cambodians Are Increasingly Being Executed For Sorcery

Poverty and inflation in Cambodia are to blame, economists claim.

July 29th, 2014
Denise Hruby
July 29th, 2014
By Denise Hruby
Cambodia Election

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — It was like a scene from a medieval witch hunt: a victim, accused of a crime that has never been committed, is surrounded by a mob. Terror ensues, before an inevitable death. On a balmy afternoon, Pov Sovann was sitting outside his house in a tiny town in rural Cambodia, chatting with his relative. Like on most days, there

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In Cambodia, Fake Orphanages Soak Up Donations By Duping Tourists

Most of these ‘orphans’ still have living parents. The squalor they endure is often for show.

July 21st, 2014
Denise Hruby
July 21st, 2014
By Denise Hruby
Cambodia Daily Life

SIEM REAP, Cambodia — Just before the sun sets over the enchanting Angkor temples in northern Cambodia, a group of children gets ready for their big show. Every day, according to fliers at restaurants and hotels around town, the children perform an hour-long “charity show” for tourists visiting the ACODO orphanage. The spectacle makes ACODO,

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Because Of China’s Preference For Baby Boys, Some Men Now Buy ‘Wives’ From Abroad

Here’s one Cambodian woman’s ordeal as a trafficked wife.’

May 17th, 2014
Denise Hruby
May 17th, 2014
By Denise Hruby
cambodia_china_trafficking_wives

KANDAL PROVINCE, Cambodia — Petite, soft-spoken and innocent Kai Sochoeun dreamed of a better life, away from the poverty she was born into in rural Cambodia. She passed her days fetching water from a pond and tending to chickens that roamed near her wooden stilt home. She watched the men in her village skeptically. If they only cared about card

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How The World Bank Funds Illegal Logging In Cambodia And Laos

Villagers have been sued and prosecuted, intimidated, threatened and shot at while trying to defend their livelihoods.

May 14th, 2013
Denise Hruby
May 14th, 2013
By Denise Hruby

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Five-months pregnant, Im Chanthy was told that her husband's body had been found in the trunk of his car, brutally hacked to death for reporting on illegal logging and land concessions in Cambodia. Many of these concessions, a new report by environmental watchdog Global Witness found, are owned by two Vietnamese rubber

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