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    • Not Everyone Benefits from Development
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Videos

In Enclave With Complex History, the Ruling Party Rules

But in a village where Cambodians and ethnic Vietnamese live together peacefully, traditional distrust surfaces in polls. Read the full story.

More videos

How Strongman’s Politics Could Endanger Garment Workers

Onetime Ardent Communists Now Buffeted by Capitalism’s Cycles

Collective Collaboration Prevails Inside Local Politics

Free Market Hurts A Young Farmer

Not Everyone Benefits from Development

As Political Tensions Heat Up, Profits Fall

Local Development Keeps One Man at Home

Farmers Feel Development Has Flaws

A Life of Upheaval Mirrors Cambodia’s Struggles

When Adult Children Leave for Work, Grandparents Step Up

Two Cows, Big Debt

About the Project

A VOA Khmer Service team spent six months talking with Cambodians during the run-up to the nation’s sixth national vote for 125 members of the National Assembly on July 29, 2018. The team traveled to six provinces and Phnom Penh, the capital city, and focused on rural residents because they are the majority of Cambodia’s voters. Many spoke of how they feel left behind by their nation’s economic expansion, which is upending their traditional way of life as they are buffeted by national and global forces.

Project credits

Reporting: Chhengpor Aun, Channy Chheng, Chenda Hong, Sokummono Khan, Kimseng Men, Vannarin Neou, Khemara Sok, Narin Sun, Soksreinith Ten, Malis Tum, Julia Wallace

Camera and video production: Chhengpor Aun, David Boyle, Sokummono Khan, Povleakhena Nov, Mony Say

Editing: Mia Bush, Tom Detzel, Jill Erzen, Elizabeth Hughes, Mary Motta, Daniel Pye, Paul Vrieze, Julia Wallace

Web production: Brian Williamson

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