Cambodia Travel Guide

Two monks chew the fat in Angkor Wat, Siem Reap

Yok Seng, a Phnom Penh taxi driver, tells a tragic but familiar Cambodian story.

With his wife and 10 children, Yok Seng was moved out to the countryside by the murderous Khmer Rouge that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. The whole family was put to work under slave labour conditions. Starting in the fields at 4am, they were lucky if they finished by 10pm. For this toil, the reward might be one bowl of thin soup per day.