Ate Hoekstra

Ate Hoekstra has been working as a correspondent in Cambodia, Thailand, Birma, Vietnam and Laos since 2012.

He regularly publishes stories in Trouw, De Tijd, Het Parool and De Persdienst and deals with a wide variety of topics.

Last modified:

02/01/2026

The world behind your jeans

PHNOM PENH - The jeans or denim jacket that you bought recently have likely been made in Cambodia. A strike of thousands of textile workers was violently suppressed there a year ago. Journalist Ate Hoekstra and photographer Kristof Vadino show that not much has changed since then.

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