TO fuel up his delivery wagon, clay merchant Ton Sophas simply pulls his cart into a field on the side of National Road 5 and lets his animals graze. It is for this reason that oxcarts still can still be found steadily clomping their way along the busy highways around the Kingdom. After leaving his [...]
HAVING announced a deal Thursday to set up a brewery in Phnom Penh, Kingdom Breweries Ltd (KBL) plans to tap into growth in the domestic beer market despite an investment slump that has seen other foreign firms shy away from Cambodia, says the company’s CEO. Peter Brongers said KBL signed a 15-year lease on Hagar [...]
ON September 5, the youngest winner of CTN’s popular Youth Leadership Challenge television show flew out on a two-week trip to Washington to meet with representatives of the US government and learn more about American society. In July , Chhem Pe, a 19-year-old 12th-grade student from January 10 High School in Siem Reap triumphed in [...]
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 [...]
Palm Tree is the kind of tree regarded as national symbol. Most of palm trees have been grown in provinces such as Kompong Speu, Kampong Chan and so on. Most of people like to drink palm juice. Palm juice is a traditional Cambodian drink. Research shows that the fresh palm juice contains Vitamin B, C, [...]
One Province One Product exhibition opened on Monday by spotlighting Cambodia-made products which are the Cambodian agriculture exports of organic cash crops such as rice, cashew nuts, pepper, corn, beans, potatoes, and silks as well. The expo, which runs through Thursday, would showcase 135 companies from 10 countries, including Thailand, China, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, India, [...]
(Source from The Phnom Penh Post) Vendors near Olympic market lose their stock of blue movies after authorities raid their stalls as part of an ongoing drive to rid the capital of pornographic DVDs and VCDs. MORE than 10,000 illegal VCDs – mostly pornography – were confiscated this week from vendors near the capital’s Olympic [...]
While arriving in Battambang province, you should not forget to try the taste of the grape wine that is probably the only one kind of grape wine produced in Cambodia. In order to see the grape plantation, you drive towards Banan temple; you will approach the three-hectare vineyard on the left hand in Banan district. [...]