Cambodia

Angkor Golf Resort The Angkor Golf Resort is set to host the inaugural Handa-Faldo Cambodian Classic on March 14 to 17, a move that reflects the growing golfing status of Siem Reap. Ranked as one of the world’s 1,000 best golfing facilities, the Angkor Golf Resort has been designed by former world number one Nick Faldo, who is also the main patron for the new US$300,000 event. “The entire team at the resort is very excited and deeply honored to host this event. We feel by staging an...Read Full Story

The latest clothing styles from Paris and Barcelona were rare finds in Phnom Penh stores five years ago. But Cambodia’s growing middle class has brought with it shoppers more willing to fork out cash for expensive threads, name-brand clothing retailers say. Will Baxter/Phnom Penh Post A sales assistant walks into the Axara clothing store, on Phnom Penh’s Sihanouk Boulevard, last week. Per-capita gross domestic product in current US dollars increased about 70 per cent between...Read Full Story

Two weeks after being sentenced to life by the Khmer Rouge tribunal, former S-21 prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, alias “Duch”, returns to the public eye — this time, as the subject of a documentary that will premiere tomorrow at the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre. Photo Supplied A scene from Duch, the Master of the Forges of Hell. The documentary film Duch, the Master of the Forges of Hell is based on an interview Cambodian film-maker Rithy Panh conducted last year with Kaing...Read Full Story

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Angkor Wat temples The famed Angkor Wat temples continue to attract overwhelming interest, prompting Cambodia to look for means to accommodate the traffic within and outside Siem Reap – the gateway town to Angkor. The Kingdom saw 2.3 million visitors last year; around 50 percent of them visited Angkor Wat. Each day, about 7,000 people explores the Angkor, which had already endured damages from the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam’s invasion. Cambodian authorities are now planning a new airport...Read Full Story

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Cambodia’s milled-rice exports struggled to compete on international markets as increased supply from India forced down regional prices, experts and officials said yesterday. Pha Lina/Phnom Penh Post A worker cleans milled rice before it is bagged in Phnom Penh. The Kingdom has continued to fill orders made in 2011, but industry insiders said new orders for the grain fell in January. Higher energy and milling costs in Cambodia could further stymie new orders for milled rice in...Read Full Story

Language barriers, waiting to be served and awkward first-date conversations could be a thing of the past in Phnom Penh’s dining scene thanks to new interactive electronic menus. Nina Loacker/Phnom Penh Post A customer orders a coffee with sugar on the new eMenu at Coffee Room on Street 215 in Phnom Penh. The revolutionary menu, called eMenu, lets customers order their food from touch screen tablets without the need of a middleman, more commonly known as a waiter. The Coffee...Read Full Story

While approved investments for large-scale projects in Cambodia saw exponential growth in 2011, smaller, less capital-intensive businesses are sprouting up quickly in the Kingdom’s capital. Nina Loacker/Phnom Penh Post Hang Rithyravuth (top) instructs a student during a piano lesson at the Mozart Music Centre yesterday in Phnom Penh. The centre is one of the capital’s small- and medium-sized businesses. The vast majority of Cambodian businesses are small- to medium-sized...Read Full Story