'I feel empty': Cambodians on canal route await fate

"I won't challenge the government, but what I want is decent compensation," the wiry 57-year-old told AFP, seated in the shade of the house he shares with eight relatives. "We don't have any official information. We have only heard about it from social media." Mech is one of thousands of Cambodians living along the projected route of the $1.7 billion Funan Techo canal -- an ambitious infrastructure project the government says will offer vast economic benefits. The waterway will run 180 kilometres...