Advertisements for every mobile phone network in Cambodia can be seen in newspapers, on television, on the street and in supermarkets. Companies are reducing prices, giving away air time and, in some cases, giving away phones. Nine companies in fact are fighting for customers in the most competitive environment in a decade. Gary Foo, chief [...]
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) have used mobile phones as a new tool to monitor Mekong flooding, providing 14 phones to 14 villages flanking the Mekong river in order to send flood forecast and reports to the government via SMS text messages. The villages that received the phones are in Kandal province’s Loeuk Deck district [...]
Cambodia’s prime minister Hun Sen created a special task force to review irregularities in criminal cases in current judiciary courts after getting request from Ministry of Interior last month. Forming new independent judicial system is to weed out irregularities of releasing suspects. There are 26-member panel designed to investigate the irregular cases that judges and [...]
In a bid to stop dropping the devaluation of Cambodia’s national currency, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) sold US$6 million to make the value of the riel stable and wanted to retain riel value at about 4,000 riel to every dollar. The National Bank of Cambodia is the Central Bank which is an autonomous [...]
Recently, the People Center for Development and Peace (PDP) released report that found that youth aged 14 regularly are drinking alcohol in Cambodia. The report read that there are 85% of 1,400 Cambodian youths in seven provinces who liked to drink alcohol but more than 52% age between 18 and 25. According to the report’s [...]