I still find out if it's real story or fiction but it is well written. Imagine how hard it was in Khmer Rouge Regime. We are in Cambodia. Here, anything can happen. And everything did. I am suddenly surrounded by the impoverished souls of terminally broken people. These, little did they know it then, would turn out to be the future monsters of this lost and tragic nation. They came silently in the night, protected by their tattooed darkened faces and, … [Read more...]
Potential For Over Two Million Ounces Of Gold
Gold and copper miner Oz Minerals Ltd (ASX:OZL) says it has found an inferred resource of 605,000 ounces at its Cambodian gold project. The discovery has encouraged the company to continue exploration in the region, which is its only advanced exploration project outside of its core operation at South Australia’s Prominent Hill copper and gold mine. Oz Minerals was forced to sell-off nearly all of its key assets last year to dig itself out of debt, … [Read more...]
WOW ! 4.3 million mobile subscribers
By early 2009, there were nine mobile operators vigorously competing with each other in a market segment that was growing at an annual rate of more than 50%. There were 4.3 million mobile subscribers (penetration 29%) in the country by March 2009. The market was still in a very strong growth phase, as evidenced by the keenness shown by foreign operators seeking to be part of it. Some limited fixed-line growth had earlier come about through investment … [Read more...]
Long Term Relation Cambodia - China
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Everybody knows China, don't you? Me too, my grandfather was an adventure student to China. When he came back to Cambodia, he brought a Chinese wife. Unfortunately I don't speak Chinese and I don't think one day I would. You know why? It's Chinese. LOL I can imagine how difficult it is to learn to speak/write Chinese. But I love everything about Chinese. I read their novel. I listen to their music. Here are some of my favorite posts about China: … [Read more...]
Book Project: Cambodia - Stories Behind The Smile
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How Thing Happen? I was asked by Cambodian film director Tim Pek for writing a new short story. Two weeks later I sent him a draft. The I don't have any reply yet. During the research, I found a subject that would be very interesting to write about Cambodia. I have waited since many year, like the rain wait for the time to fall, like the follower wait for the summer. And maybe it might because of another reason. Thank to my lovely wife that always support … [Read more...]
Roaster seeks to give Cambodia coffee global buzz
MONDULKIRI, Cambodia (Reuters Life!) - Southeast Asian coffee from Vietnam and Indonesia percolates around the world, but if a family roaster has its way, mugs may soon be filled with a blend from another, unlikely location: Cambodia. Every few days, the rich, earthy aroma of roasting coffee wafts over the dusty town of Mondulkiri in Cambodia's remote northeast as the employees of family-owned Mondulkiri Coffee maintain a tradition started in the 18th … [Read more...]
U.S. to help train Cambodia’s peacekeeping forces
english.people.com.cn - Visiting U.S. high-ranking military officer Gen. William Crowe has accepted a request by Cambodia's National Center for Peacekeeping Forces and ERW Clearance (NPMEC) to train Cambodian forces on peacekeeping mission, official news agency AKP reported on Monday. The request was made by Gen. Sem Sovanny, general director of the NPMEC, during a visit to the Oudong military training school on Mar. 11 by Gen. William Crowe who is in … [Read more...]
Cambodia Mekong River
A Cambodian boy jumps into the Mekong River along A'Reyksat village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, March 15, 2010. Severe drought has dropped the Mekong River to its lowest level in nearly 20 years, halting some cargo traffic and boat tours on the Asian waterway that is the lifeblood for 65 million people in six countries, a draft report said. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) … [Read more...]
Cambodia Daily Life
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Cambodian Buddhist monks attend a class in a pagoda in Phnom Baseth village, Kandal province, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, July 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith). … [Read more...]
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