For two years, residents of eight municipalities in the district Roveang in Preah Vihear province, northern Cambodia, are chronically sick, their animals have a mortality rate abnormally high and vegetation is dying in some places. So when these villagers left in the forest, this is not always engage in picking fruit, hunting or the logging […]
Corruption is a serious issue and sensitive to some extents. I found that people rarely consider it as joke. To me, it is not a joke but it seems to be joking while I can see corruption in families. Wife, husband and their children commit corrupt. How do they commit corrupt?
To my observation and talk […]
More than 80% of Cambodian population is living at rural areas and is based on agriculture farming. Cambodia is adopting agriculture development as its priority and this sector shares a big percentage in Gross Domestic Product among garment and textile industry, tourism sector, and construction. Fertile land, water resources in Tonle Sap basin and Mekong […]
Last month, I traveled to Kratie and on my way back to Phnom Penh, passed through Kampong Cham province, I stopped for about 15 minutes to buy pine apples, the fruit I like eating after lunch or dinner. People could find delicious pine apples in Kampong Cham, Cambodia. From day to day, people who passed […]
On 30 May 2008, I attended a meeting held by Development and Partnership in Action (DPA) on Mineral Extraction. The meeting was conducted in order to update information on this extraction industry and to find ways if non-governmental organizations (NGOs) could together form network to disseminate information and advocate for mineral related issues. As discussed […]
Last week I went to a commune of Chikreng district, Siem Reap province, I saw that trees at forests were cut and transported by cow cards to sell to traders. This kind of action is done almost everyday. Though it is small activities, but from day to day, forest will be clear.
I asked people […]
In the first quarter of this year, land business is so active and after that it is so quiet, according to observation made by some land traders. However, for some big real estate companies, this land business is still normal.
Land business stays quiet because: 1) national 27 July election is upcoming and people just want […]
Cambodia’s open sky policy has given golden opportunity to develop its tourism. At the time of the adoption of this policy, Cambodia had less than one million tourists, but now in this year 2008 Cambodia has more than two million tourists, mainly in Siem Reap Angkor tourist destination. Due to favorable conditions both inside and […]
My face is not so different from about three years ago. This is my picture I just asked my friend to take today at my working office.
And this is my photo with Som Chanratana, currently National Advisor to the Asia Foundation in charge of trafficking, taken at Kirirom resort in 2004 while I and my […]
During the first three months of 2008, the Council for Development of Cambodia (CDC) has registered 21 projects with a total cost of 253 million dollars against 26 projects at a cost of 503 million dollars a year last over the same period. Of these 21 projects, four are tourism, two services (including a telecommunications […]
