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From the monthly archives: October 2008
500 XO Laptops imported into Cambodia on January 2008 through the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) have been distributed to Cambodian poor students in remote rural areas in provinces and city such as Preah Vihear, Siem Reap, Kampong Speu, Kandal and Phnom Penh.
XO Laptop manufactured by OLPC (One Laptop [...]
(Written by Moeun Chhean Nariddh and published on Phnom Penh Post newspapers)
As Cambodian people are returning from P’Chum Ben, they might have fulfilled their traditional obligation to appease the ghosts of their ancestors who have been roaming different pagodas in search of food offered by their living relatives during the two-week-long festival.
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Almost every day, traveling toward my workplace along street in Phnom Penh, I have always spotted traffic police getting money from passenger taxi, or trucks hauling their personal goods while running past the traffic light at the intersection of corner where traffic police officers stands, especially in Phnom Penh city.
Traffic policeman stationed [...]
Before the July 27’s general election, the value of the property market – land and houses – was increasing throughout Cambodia. Land disputes are happening across the country, especially in provinces. The land disputes led to violation and people have been killed. Grabbing land is going up.
Increasing the price of land, the [...]
Cambodia government was unsatisfied with the result of the 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) launched by the International Transparency (IT) on September 23, 2008 in Berlin, ranking Cambodia 166th of 180 countries and assigning it a score of 1.8 of a possible10. It is getting worse than its 2007 rating.
In [...]
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