July 2010

Company Says Traffic Cameras Will Not Be for Police To Use

by sidet on July 30, 2010

in Social

Traffic Camera

Traffic Camera

Video footage from recently installed cameras capturing the traffic flow at four of Phnom Penh’s busiest intersections will not be recorded for police to use in investigations, the chief executive officer of the company that installed the cameras said yesterday.

EZECOM CEO Paul Branche-Horgan said yesterday that the cameras his company installed in partnership with television network CTN had never been intended for police use.

“It is just a live feed from the four cameras,” Mr Blanche-Horgan said. “CTN wanted to do traffic program… We  are not doing any security.”

Last week, CTN started broadcasting live early morning feeds from cameras at the intersection of Russian Boulevard and St 289, the intersection of Mao Tse Toung Boulevard and Monireth Boulevard and the trhee-way intersection of St 154, Sisowath Wuay and Sothearos Boulevard. [Read full article…]

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Student Finish Exams, Ponder Academic Futures

July 30, 2010 Education

More than 100,000 12th-grade high school students around the country finished their national exams yesterday, with many immediately considering their future. “I want to go to NUM [Nation University of Management] if I get high marks,” said Visal, 17, a student at Phnom Penh,s Chaktomuk Hight School, adding that the cost of tuition may force [...]

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Cameras Set Up to Navigate Capital’s Traffic Jams

July 30, 2010 Social

In a bid to help commuters prepare better for their journey to work each day, a local television network has begun screening live early morning footage for new cameras installed at four major intersections in Phnom Penh, a network official said yesterday. It was not immediately apparent yesterday, however, whether the footage from the new [...]

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Let’s Do This: Beating Procrastination

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Stung Treng Family Suffer Food Shortage From Typhoon

July 22, 2010 Disaster

Around 200 families in a commune in Stung Treng province’s Sesan distrit are facing an acute food shortage after losing much of their harvest and food stocks in Typhoon Ketsana last year, a representative of the villagers said yesterday. A district official, however, played down the seriousness of Sesan district’s food situation. Pai Thnong Nhut, [...]

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Acleda Expands Services to Mobile Telephones

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Acleda Bank became only the second bank in the country to offer banking through mobile telephone software with the launch of its new “Unity” service on Friday. The new mobile telephone service will allow payments, fund and account transfers, balance inquiries, and access to multiple currencies for customers at the bank, which has 670,383 acconts [...]

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Prime Minister Encourages Efforts To Protect Tonle Sap

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Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday urged officials to continue to carry out his orders to demolish man-made irrigation reservoirs around the Tonle Sap lake as part of the government’s ongoing effort to protect the floodplains and flooded forests on the lake’s periphery. Official said yesterday that they had completed dismantling an additional five reservoirs [...]

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Choun Nath Khmer Dictionary

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Angkor Wat, Seam Reap Draw More Tourists

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The number of visitors to Sieem Reap’s Angkor Archaeological Park shot up in the first half of 2010 as the site showed increased popularity among Asian tourists, government officials said. According to the Apsara Authority, which governs the site, 559,321 tourists purchased tickets to see Cambodia’s most popular attractions, a 22.8 percent increase from the [...]

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O’Tres Beach Business Owners Told To Tak $4,000 and Go

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Three beaches in Preah Sihanouk province are among the top 22 in Asia for travelers who want an “undeveloped, peaceful stretch of sand,” according to Forbes magazine. OTres Beach in Preah Sihanouk city, the nearby Ream Beach in Prey Nop district, and the sands of Koh Rong Samleon, an island off the coast, were cited [...]

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