Monthly Archives: April, 2013
Different Views on Upcoming Cambodian National Elections 2013
During the preparation of the upcoming parliamentary elections 2013, the fifth since 1993, there are debates and controversial opinions in the public and among politicians, political parties, NEC and even donors communities. Opposition demands delay of the electoral process while NEC praises its own efforts to organize elections and sees the decrease of technical and …
A Land of Million Titles
Recently, more Titles were handed over to supreme monks and high-ranking officials in a ceremony in the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh. With all the respect, I have my doubts what is the meaning of all these titles? Are they useful, really needed for the Khmer society? My opinion: it is really not necessary. When …
The Farmer and Water Net (FWN)
The FWN was established during the first congress on May 26-27, 2011 and is registered at the Ministry of Interior on December 6, 2011. It has 12 FWUCs, from eight provinces and 206 villages across Cambodia as its members. Total coverage area is more than 23,000 ha with more than 26,000 families. Most of the …
Legal Base of FWUC’s Operation in Cambodia
FWUC stands for Farmer Water User Community, a legal entity established to support especially agricultural water users to operate and maintain the irrigation systems, after it was built. There are currently more than 300 FWUCs registered at the level of the Ministry of Water Resource and Meteorology (MOWRAM), with some few more at the local …
Keeping Your Mind and Body in a Healthy Shape
It is good that more and more people living in Phnom Penh turning to exercise to keep them healthy. Health is the most important gift on earth we could have. Imagine, you have million of dollars and you are lying on the bed with poor health? Unfortunately, there are not so many open spaces and …
Human Errors destroy countless Life of Innocent People
I am not very keen in writing this article, but it needs all our attention to be careful. In the first three months of 2013, there was fatal traffic accidents recorded on the Cambodian roads. According to road safety authority following record has been released: 1,163 cases happened, almost 23 accidents/day 540 people died, exactly …
A Successful Case Study: ACLEDA
It is a success story of ACLEDA bank. I happened to meet Mr. In Channy, founder and CEO of ACLEDA, for the first time in 1996 in his small and narrow office south of Tuol Tumpung market, when ACLEDA was still an NGO providing credits and basic trainings to small borrowers. He was then young …
Education Statistics
In 2011-2012, Cambodia has 11,370 schools throughout the country: 281 are Kindergartens, 6,910 are primary schools, 1,214 lower secondary schools and 433 higher secondary schools; according to Mr. Im Sethy, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport (KT, 24.03.13). He stressed that out of this number 3,518 buildings (or 18,256 classrooms) were sponsored by the Prime …
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