Author: Martin

Currency exchange

Check this Cambodian site which gives latest exchange rates in Siem Reap. Click here.

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…

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…