Phnom Penh

How to use Phnom Penh in a sentence

• She is back sewing at a factory in Phnom Penh, the capital, but earns less due to reduced orders, she says, and is concerned she’ll lose her home if she continues to default on her repayments.

  She Made Jeans for Americans. When They Stopped Shopping, She Turned to Sex Work | Refiloe Makhaba Nkune | December 14, 2021 | Time

• One of the four relics to be returned — a prehistoric bell — probably belongs to a set of 12 that had been looted from a province north of the capital, Phnom Penh, experts say.

  Denver Art Museum announces return of four artifacts to Cambodia after Pandora Papers coverage of indicted art dealer | Peter Whoriskey, Malia Politzer | October 17, 2021 | Washington Post

• The family lives in Kandal province, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, and Sovann, 39, cares for the girls by herself with her income from Yi Da, where she started working about five years ago.

  Who is responsible for the world’s garment workers? | Marc Bain | February 22, 2021 | Quartz

• Jews—if you are from Phnom Penh, you may not know this—are forbidden to eat leavened bread on Passover.

  Passover’s Theological-Political Problem | Bernard Avishai | April 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

• The signs of such corruption are visible all over Phnom Penh.

  Show Trials Bring Cambodia Delayed Justice, but Where’s the Outrage? | Lennox Samuels | November 30, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST