PHNOM PENH: On November 19, 2012, when Air Force One descended on Phnom Penh’s international airport, former US President Barack Obama was meant to see a message – from the sky. The residents of Thmor ...

Cambodian capital has lost more than half its lakes to a housing boom – but a group of women are risking jail to fight against land grabs and evictions The lake where Prak Sophea lives on the ...

Every developing city has to consider moving people in order to build bigger and better modern buildings. There are many examples of this in Phnom Penh. How can developers balance the need to change ...

Over recent years, Phnom Penh’s skyline has been changing at breakneck speed as taller and taller buildings change one of Southeast Asia’s last low-rise capitals. According to an unreleased report by ...

Paragon International University hosted a recent international conference, bringing together researchers from around the ...

Thousands of Cambodians threatened with eviction from land skirting Phnom Penh's Boeung Kak lake have scored a landmark victory, it has emerged. On 17 August, shortly after the World Bank froze all ...

Once regarded as the “jewel of Asia,” Cambodia’s capital has since become a byword for sprawl and shambolic planning. A map of central Phnom Penh from a French guidebook published by Hachette in 1926.

Phnom Penh is not the only Southeast Asian city to have declared itself the “Pearl of the Orient” at one time or another. But for the century before a decline that began in 1970 and led to genocide ...