August 2010

Tourism Makes Leap Ahead of Asean Forum

by sidet on August 31, 2010

in Tourism

ASEAN Tourism Forum 2009

ASEAN Tourism Forum 2009 in Vietnam

The number of tourist arrivals to Cambodia increase 23.5 percent in July 2010 compared to July last year, according to statistics released by the Tourism Ministry.

The new numbers show continued tourist growth over last year. In the first half of 2010, 12.39 percent more tourists arrived in Cambodia than during the same period last year and in June, 18.21 percent more tourists arrived than in June 2009.

Tourism sector growth was lackluster in 2009 as the global financial crisis forced potential travelers to tighten their belts.

“I think we have now really seen that people are traveling again after the crisis and that easing visa restriction has helped,” said Kong Sophearak, director of the Tourism Ministry’s statistics and information department. In late 2008, Vietnam and Cambodia signed a visa exemption agreement. [Read full article…]

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Cambodia Lacks Reading Culture, Experts Say

August 27, 2010 Education

Participants in a forum in Phnom Penh organized by the National Library of Cambodia and the Australian Embassy said yesterday that Cambodia lacks a culture of reading. “Cambodia society is a society whose people do not like reading very much, and we have some reasons for this problem,” said Pal Vannrirak, director of the development [...]

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Storm To Bring Rains, Wind To Northern Cambodia

August 25, 2010 Disaster

After striking Vietnam’s central coast yesterday, tropical storm Mindulle is expected to bring new heavy rain to Cambodia’s northern provinces today and tomorrow, officials from the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said. Oum Ryan, deputy director of the meteorology department, said Mindullle ould bring downpours, but added, “The winds will be strong but not [...]

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More Students In Capital, Kandal Pass National Exam Than Last Year

August 23, 2010 Education

The Ministry of Education on Friday announce that 12th grade students in Phnom Penh and Kandal province had outperformed students from the previous year in their national exams. “This year, 81.9 percent of the students passed, which is higher than last year’s results, where 77.79 percent passed,” said Ou Eng, director general of the education [...]

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Lightning Claims 94th Victim of 2010

August 23, 2010 Environment

Lightning killed a woman I Banteay Meanchey province’s Malai district Monday, bringing the total number of lightning deaths in Cambodia for the year so far to 94, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management. Koy Vy, 37, was struck by lightning at about 6 pm while carrying rainwater to a house located in a [...]

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Government Draft Plan Aims To Lower Traffic Fatalities By 30 Percent

August 22, 2010 Social

Under draft plans presented by Cambodia aims to reduce traffic accident deaths by 30 percent in the next 10 years, with the aim of saving a total of 4,700 lives. Last year, 1,717 people died on Cambodia’s roads, a4.8 percent increase from 2008, and this trend is set to continue as growing numbers of motorists [...]

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List of Internet Service Providers (ISP) In Cambodia

August 12, 2010 Technology

Internet is very popular in Cambodia now. Most of people get addicted to surfing the internet nowadays even me. I spend up to more than 8 hours sitting in front of computer daily. With speed 128kpbs provided by MetFone, vietel compay, for the unlimited promotion I can surf anytime I want. Metfone is still in [...]

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My Voice Recorder – Sony ICD-UX400F IC Recorder (8GB)

August 9, 2010 Technology

I am very busy with my workplace because I have lots of tasks to do. I am very happy to all of that. But one think that make me difficult is taking minute. It is not difficult but not easy to take the meeting minute, but sometime I need to quote all important statement of [...]

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Save Your Hosting Bandwidth By Uploading Image Post To Image Hosting Server

August 9, 2010 Blogging

Bandwidth is a term used to describe how much information can be transmitted over a connection. Bandwidth is usually given as bits per second, or as some larger denomination of bits, such as Megabits per second, expressed as kbit/s or Mbit/s. Bandwidth is a gross measurement, taking the total amount of data transferred in a [...]

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Google Change Image Search Result

August 9, 2010 Others

Recently I was very surprise to see Google change the displaying of Google Image Search Result. As I remember in the past when we want to search the image, the result would be appeared as Photos/Images and the title and web address display down below the image. But this time when I type the Keywords [...]

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Malaria Deaths Plunged in First Half of 2010

August 6, 2010 Health

The number of deaths from malaria in the first half of the year dropped by more than two-thirds compared to the same period in 2009, according to National Malaria Center data. “This year, cases and deaths have decreased due to our village workers; secondly, high coverage of bed nets; and thirdly, we are not out [...]

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