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Getting there: Airlines and Airport in Siem Reap
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The rainy season has started in Siem Reap
Our correspondent, Suy Vandy, reports from Siem Reap: we are right here getting the raining season it last for a few day ago , the people at the countryside will start working in the paddy fields especially at my homeland as well.…
CAMBODIA: World Bank pumps US$15 million into Higher Education
The World Bank is to inject US$15 million to support tertiary education in private and public universities and institutes in Cambodia, the Ministry of Education has said, writes Khuon Leakhena for The Phnom Penh Post. The money will be spent…
Long Beach woman helped create library in Cambodia
Children of all ages in rural Takeo Province, Cambodia now have a library and books to call their own. (Photo courtesy of Caitlin Ishigooka) LONG BEACH – One sign came when she couldn’t enter the existing library because the floor…
Khvien teachers receive their second delivery of rice
You may recall that the teachers at Khvien have entered into an agreement that the school will remain corruption free i.e. schoolchildren will not be asked to make any payments for attending school . For background click here: Rice4Teachers How is…
Pain of Khmer Rouge Era Lost on Cambodian Youth
Seth Mydans/The International Herald Tribune Yeoun Chany, 38, who lives near a former killing field, said her children “only know there are skulls and bones here; they don’t know what they are.” By SETH MYDANS TRAPAENG SVA, CAMBODIA —…
Thought for the Day #2
“Education‘s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one…” Malcolm Forbes
Cambodia: Rice politics
Rice is more than a staple of the Cambodian diet. It also implicates land rights, trade and international relations. A post on The Mirror reveals the frustration of Cambodians, including Cheam Yeap, a Cambodian People’s Party official, over land leases…
Global downturn threatens Cambodian garment success
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Mon Moeun, one of thousands of Cambodians pulled out of poverty by a job in the garment trade since foreign investors arrived in the 1990s, may be back rearing pigs soon after a collapse in demand…