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Bhutan showcase: Film fest to feature flicks from over the hills and far away

A screenshot from The Prophecy, which will screen this evening at the Cambodia International Film Festival. Photo supplied Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon | The Phnom Penh Post Publication date 07 March 2018 | 07:44 ICT With three feature films at this year’s Cambodia International Film Festival, the Buddhist mountain Kingdom of Bhutan this week gets a rare moment in the spotlight for Phnom Penh’s audiences. In town for the screenings, actor Loday Chophel breaks into a smile when asked how he came to play the leading role in The Prophecy, one of just a handful of movies produced by his country each year. “Can I tell you?” he asks tentatively before launching into an explanation. Born in an eastern roadside village called Wamrong, consisting of no more than 15 houses perched on a mountainside, the 38-year-old recalls that there was just one television set in the whole town, at a local convenience store. “I would go sneak in and watch films,” he says. TV and film was a novelty at the time...

Rainsy’s vow of ‘autonomy’ for ethnic group sets off treason probe

A screenshot of a video showing former opposition leader Sam Rainsy (right) at an event in the United States in 2013 with Degar activist Kok Ksor. Photo supplied Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga | The Phnom Penh Post Publication date 08 March 2018 | 06:45 ICT The Interior Ministry said it will investigate documents and a video from 2013 that resurfaced yesterday showing former opposition leader Sam Rainsy committing to upholding the rights of ethnic minorities in four northeastern Cambodian provinces, with a Justice Ministry spokesman saying it qualified as “treason”. The material was released on government mouthpiece Fresh News and pertains to an April 2013 meeting in the United States between Rainsy, at the time the exiled president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, and Kok Ksor, the head of the Montagnard Foundation Inc. Ksor started the foundation to oppose discrimination faced by the Degar community in Vietnam, who are also known as the Montagnards. Degar is an umbrella term for...

Cambodia’s ride hailing apps have few women on board

Grab drivers stand beside their vehicles during the launch of the ride hailing-firm’s services in the country, in Phnom Penh, on December 19. Charly Two/AFP Robin Spiess | The Phnom Penh Post Publication date 08 March 2018 | 06:55 ICT The ride-hailing industry employs thousands of drivers in Cambodia, but a survey of the four largest firms revealed that less than a dozen of those drivers are women, while none of the companies had undertaken specific programs to train or recruit female drivers. Executives justified the lack of female representation in their workforce by noting that women don’t like to work in the sun, don’t like lifting heavy things and prefer teaching to driving. But women’s rights advocates said that the companies needed to do a better job of tailoring their training and programming to women if they wanted to diversify their workforces. US-based Uber, for example, doesn’t offer any female-specific training – such as programs to boost recruitment or address safety conc...

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