Gerald Flynn, 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.

A digital hand-drawn illustration showing a man sitting on a hospital cot in a quarantine centre. He wears a hospital gown and holds a mobile phone in his hands. A large beam of light shines from the phone, illuminating his torso and spreading out behind him to show a stylised screenshot of a Facebook support group for COVID long-haulers. In the beam of light, two other people emerge; a woman in a long-sleeved dark red shirt with a nasal oxygen tube connected to an unseen oxygen tank, and a man in glasses, a grey hoodie and a light blue shirt. The man reaches out to grasp the woman’s hand. The rest of the quarantine centre not illuminated by the light beam is depicted in shades of grey.

Feature

Across Southeast Asia, Long COVID Haunts Pandemic Survivors

by Gerald Flynn and Farid Nad 25 January 20222 February 2022

These Southeast Asians caught COVID-19 and survived, only to be misdiagnosed, misunderstood and fundamentally ignored by their countries’ medical communities. Hope for the region’s long-haulers lies in banding together.

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.

A Medical Waste Management Unit worker navigates the waste-strewn warehouse floor of the Dangkor landfill in Phnom Penh on April 9, 2020.

Feature

Medical Waste Collectors: Cambodia’s Unseen Front-Line Workers

by Gerald Flynn 30 April 202031 January 2022

On the front lines of Cambodia’s fight against COVID-19, the five-man team responsible for disposing of all of Phnom Penh’s medical waste says they are poorly equipped, uninsured and at risk of infection, but few recognise the challenges they face.