Archive for March, 2009
Phu Quoc Island tour set to boost tourism to Cambodia
Cambodian Ministry of Tourism Thong Khon has announced plans to open a new tour that links Cambodia’s four coastal provinces with Phu Quoc Island of Vietnam.
Mr Khon said he hoped that the new tour connecting Phu Quoc Island with the provinces of Koh Kong, Kongpong Som, Kampot and Posat, would boost tourism to Cambodia.
The minister [...]
Quality of Education is needs
Modern country in Cambodia Is improving with high quality of education, so quality of health education is needs.
Some of students at International University are graduated with Health Major under present Cambodia Prime Minister at Institute of National Education, located in Daun Penh District near Independence Monument, on 24 March 2009.
International University is the first [...]
Cambodia to send troops to African nations
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Cambodia will contribute troops to U.N. peacekeeping forces in Chad and the Central African Republic, marking the poor Southeast Asian country’s second military mission abroad in three years, the prime minister said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen did not specify the number of Cambodian troops or when they would depart.
He said he decided [...]
Cambodia’s coming oil economy
BANGKOK – Haunted by war, and wracked by poverty, Cambodia has had little opportunity to enjoy one its few blessings.
The nation of 14 million people, sandwiched between Thailand and Vietnam, is flush with natural resources. Veins of iron and gold run beneath its soil. Natural forests offer a wealth of timber. Most promising of all [...]
World Heritage Sites to be proposed in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Cambodia will ask the United Nations to register four temples — one dating back some 1,400 years — as World Heritage Sites, a government official said Tuesday.
Listings by UNESCO, the world body’s cultural agency, normally get international assistance to preserve the sites, and inevitably attract a larger number of tourists.
Kum Polin, a senior official [...]
