The building famed for Le Popil's photography gallery lives on, but instead of photographs, the walls of this space now house rails of clothing and shelves of bags and cushions. Welcome to L' Armoire D' Alexandra.
CTN Announces Newest Reality Television Series
Cambodian Television Network (CTN), the number one broadcaster in the kingdom announced that its newest series will marry two of Cambodia's most popular pastimes.
CTN introduced Cambodia to reality television with the hit series CTN's Coffee Shop. That landmark was followed up with CTN's Pizza House. Now, CTN is combining Cambodia's newest viewing sensation with its oldest living heritage.
Around 30 taxi drivers who ply their trade at Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday asked Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema to reject the proposal that will be made by Lours Seiha, director of the Moto-Taxi Drivers' Association, to create a tuk-tuk association this Wednesday.
XEM Design has opened a new gallery called La Galerie on Street 178 next to Le Deli. They propose to mix design and fine art into one very nice space. The first show is, as you would expect, part design and part visual art.
EMRiem, a graduate of the Royal University of Fine Art, shows why he is one of Phnom Penh's up and coming young artists. There is no doubt that he has an exceptional feel for two dimensions. His virtuosity with imagery is clearly displayed through his three groups of paintings.
"The whole project is a load of rubbish!" some concerned citizens are saying, and the organizers of The Rubbish Project (TRP) would totally agree. TRP is holding a host of environmentally friendly and whacky festivities on World Water Day, March 22, to bring awareness to the public about the pollution of the Kingdom's waterways.
Too much rain, rapid urbanization and old-fashioned production methods have created havoc in Vietnam's salt production and the country is facing a shortage. Cambodia has been taking up the slack with large volumes of salt being exported to Vietnam since the beginning of this year. Last month, however, production was also low in Cambodia, and officials have no idea if Cambodia's salt production will cope with their neighbor's voracious demands.
Previously reserved for Khmer karaoke, the Cambodian music video is being reshaped, redefined and taken to new heights as DJ Cream seeks to create an international platform from which to launch the emerging voices of Cambodia.
Cambodia's outward image as a war-scarred, lawless backwater has been all but transformed in recent years to that of a strategically placed, business-friendly Asian tiger waiting to roar. The transformation has been partly attributed to the work of the Government-Private Sector Forum (G-PSF) which started work in 1999 when the post-war government had little business expertise and the nation's private sector was still nascent. James Brew arrived in Cambodia in 2002 to work as the forum's program manager for the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Cambodia is expected to see a possible three fold increase in investment growth this year, largely due to the arrival of Japanese investors en masse, said Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh. "I believe that investment in 2008 will increase two times to three times because of Japanese investors," he said following a High Level Conference on Trade-Related Capacity Development in Selected East Asian Countries in Phnom Penh yesterday.
Tourism experts have announced that visitors to the Mekong Sub-region may be able to buy a single visa for visiting Cambodia and five of its neighbors by 2015.
According to the Bangkok Post February 6 edition, the prediction was made at a Mekong Sub-regional tourism meeting in Bangkok earlier this week.
In this decade, tourism in the region is greatly developing. In 1995 there were only 10 million tourists, but by 2015 this is expected to increase to 50 million, predicted the Asian Development Bank's (ADB).