Andy Ball, Author at New Naratif

Cambodia’s At-Risk Construction Workers Raise Families On-Site

by Andy Ball, Vutha Srey and Gerald Flynn 6 April 20227 April 2022

Cambodian construction workers and their families often live inside the buildings they are constructing, despite dozens being killed in building collapses in recent years. Few labour protections and low pay leave them vulnerable to accidents and exploitation.

Investigation

On Patrol, a Mekong Village Tackles Electric Fishing Scourge

by Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball and Sorn Srenh 8 February 20216 December 2021

Volunteer community patrollers along the Mekong in Cambodia aim to stop a rise in illegal electric fishing, which harms river ecosystems and livelihoods that rely on protected fisheries. But the sale of outlawed gear allows the dangerous practice to continue.

Two Buddhist monks wearing orange robes squat down and hold down a small tan dog while a kneeling woman holds a syringe preparing to vaccinate the dog for rabies. Andy Ball

Feature

Can Cambodia Eradicate the World’s Most Fatal Disease?

by Kieran Murray and Andy Ball 24 August 202024 January 2022

Each year, hundreds of people in Cambodia are estimated to die of rabies, which is treatable but fatal once symptoms present. Animal welfare and health experts say vaccinating the nation’s dogs and controlling the dog meat trade could help prevent deaths.