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Sebastian Strangio is a journalist and author focusing on Southeast Asia. Since 2008, his reporting from across the region has appeared in more than 30 leading publications in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

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Cambodia Is Perfectly Positioned to Become a Solar Powerhouse

Cambodia Is Perfectly Positioned to Become a Solar Powerhouse

Phnom Penh’s first solar-powered building looks for all the world like a cube of colored Lego blocks dropped in a factory lot on the city’s industrial outskirts.
Phnom Penh Is Arresting the Poor and Sending Them to Abusive “Vocational Centers”

Phnom Penh Is Arresting the Poor and Sending Them to Abusive “Vocational Centers”

In 2012, the authorities in Cambodia’s capital hung up large banners proclaiming it “The Charming City.”
Its Electricity Dwindling, Cambodia is Getting Very Dark and Very, Very Hot

Its Electricity Dwindling, Cambodia is Getting Very Dark and Very, Very Hot

PHNOM PENH—If floods are the scourge of the Cambodian wet season, power-cuts are the scourge of the dry, which sears its way through February, March, and April, often pushing the mercury to over 100 degrees.
Phnom Penh’s Wildly Opulent Gated Communities are Fracturing the City

Phnom Penh’s Wildly Opulent Gated Communities are Fracturing the City

PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s suburban future announces itself with a grand archway, a replica of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, topped with a clutch of rearing bronze stallions.