FEMALE beer promotion workers in Siem Reap town earned salaries that covered only half of their living expenses last year, a fact that led some 57 percent to engage in sex work, according to a report released last week by a Siem Reap-based NGO.
The report, co-authored by Ian Lubek, a psychology professor at the University [...]
Local and foreign tourists rarely visited Independence Beach, also known as Seven-story Hotel, where sits atop the rocky points at the north end of the beach.
Independence Beach is, in general, less frequented than other beaches, and sees comparatively few foreign visitors, though it still can get pretty busy on weekends and holidays.Independence is a good [...]
LATER this year film fans will be able to wean themselves off their usual diet of pirate DVDs, for a few days at least, when the first annual Cambodian International Film Festival takes place in Phnom Penh.
Scheduled to run from October 20 to 23, the Kingdom’s inaugural cinematic event was announced at a press conference [...]
When Leng Chan Thol and her husband Chan Thay Chhoueng decided to grow grapes for wine production just outside Battambang city, people thought they were crazy.
“You would have to be very strong, courageous or foolhardy. Wine grapes are not a profitable Cambodian crop, and they are sure to fail,’ were the types of things people [...]
BEING an entertainer in Cambodia is a high-risk proposition for women, particularly those who attract the attention - and advances - of rich and powerful men. The entertainment industry is rife with tales of women who, after allegedly engaging in adulterous affairs with high-profile men, were targeted by vengeful wives in plots involving acid attacks [...]
Phnom Penh municipality has plan over the next four years to implement project worth US$10 million in order to illuminate the city’s main monuments and the line more than 500 km of the capital’s boulevards and streets with streetlights in an attempt to attract tourists.
The French lighting company, Citelum, created master plan and has cooperation [...]
