New Cambodia Party Aims to Build Political Trust in Countryside

The farmers of Domnak Sokrom commune were fed up with waiting. They had spent more than a decade going back and forth with their CPP (Cambodian People’s Party) commune chief, who had promised them government funds would be available to build an irrigation support network, crucial in monsoonal Cambodia, where wet seasons are extreme and dry seasons can be equally as harsh on agricultural land. Finally, the frustrated villagers from Cambodia’s Kampot province banded together, pooled their...

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