It’s about 7pm, and night-time has already fallen in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and Ms Kim is sitting in the back bench seat of her own tuk tuk, talking to me via video call on her phone, after a long day of working.
In 2013, she became one of Cambodia’s first few female tuk tuk drivers, among the country’s tens of thousands of male tuk tuk drivers. Motorbikes pull these motorised two-wheeled carriages with two bench seats – also known as auto rickshaws or “remorque” in Khmer – and fill the country’s streets, an easy and cheap way to traverse its busy traffic.
