Over the past three decades, The Post has regularly published features and news related to tourism and travel in order to serve our readership by informing them about aspects of the Kingdom or the region that they may not be familiar with, while also helping to promote the tourism industry which is vital to so many Cambodians’ livelihoods. This mission wasn’t deterred by the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the inability of most people to travel outside of whichever country they happened to be in. Instead, we took a different approach that focused on domestic travel including secluded wilderness destinations and adventure…
Author: Raksmey Hong
Japan Heart – an international medical NGO – has decided to provide medical support for Kroch Chhmar district referral hospital in Tbong Khmum province, in response to a request for assistance from Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Chea Sophara. Hideto Yoshioka, a pediatric surgeon and founder of Japan Heart – led his delegation and Kroch Chhmar hospital medical staff to discuss the assistance with Sophara at his ministry’s headquarters back on June 30. The NGO, which has a medical facility to treat children with cancer in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district, plan on providing comprehensive support for…
The sounds of tools – mixed with laughter and happy chatter – once echoed through a Kandal sculptural training workshop. The sculptors, who used to enjoy the cheerful atmosphere of the workshop and eat meals together, are now working from home. Chhum Somonn, who lost both legs to a landmine while fighting in Oddar Meanchey province in 1993, established the small school, which teaches carving and sculpting in wood, copper and stone – and engraving skills – to disabled people and the underprivileged. He has been a sculptor for more than 20 years, and explained why his artisans were now…
Determined to improve his family’s financial position, Chhan Kimmen applied for work abroad far away from his relatives, including his twin brother, landing a job in South Korea, some three and a half thousand kilometres away. As well as seeking a decent income, the young man from a Prey Veng province farming family was also looking at garnering knowledge and skills from his time in Korea to use to develop a business back in his homeland. On his return, Kimmen partnered with his twin brother to establish Anachak Heroman Property Co, Ltd, now a million-dollar real estate company with nearly…
Meng Sarath grabbed a handful of finger-sized zebra striped snakelets that were crawling around the roots of a hyacinth, explaining that they were the key to his livelihood after the Covid-19 crisis ended his job as a hotel cleaner in Sihanoukville. Sarath is the main Cambodian breeder of Bocourt’s water snake (Subsessor bocourti) – known as chan l’mom in Khmer – for the Vietnamese restaurant market. He also sells them to farmers who want to raise snakes as a family business. Within three years of beginning his career in hospitality, Sarath, 34, returned to his hometown in Ka’am Samnor village,…
Parents who have children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are becoming increasingly aware of this congenital cerebral paralysis and are sending their children for special education classes in private educational institutes and organisations and state-recognised schools. Many parents expect their children to go to school with well-trained teachers, and hope they will be able to integrate into public schools like regular kids, while others only expect their children to become more independent. Chan Sarin, the principal of Takhmao Special Education High School in Kandal province’s Takhmao town which provides education for children with ASD from kindergarten to Grade 12 and…
Dr HIDETO Yoshioka, a Japanese surgeon and founder of the international paediatric cancer NGO Japan Heart, is ready to perform life-saving operations on children with cancer during his two-week surgical mission to the Kingdom which starts at the end of June. Currently, Japan Heart Children’s Medical Centre (JHCMC), located at Ponhea Leu Referral Hospital in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district, is treating 35 children diagnosed with cancer. Ten have already undergone surgery and are at critical stages in their recovery. According to JHCMC, over 16,000 Cambodian children each year receive outpatient medical services at the hospital among a total of…
The blood donations of young people from many large organisations have made a significant contribution to saving the lives of many patients in the Kingdom. Cambodia’s daily blood consumption is typically between 250 and 300 bags, according to Sok Po, director of the National Blood Transfusion Centre (NBTC). Due to the Covid-19 crisis, which disturbed gatherings and other humanitarian activities, blood donations dropped to about five percent of the daily needs of the NBTC. As the epidemic slowed, blood donations began to climb, to around ten per cent. “The majority of blood donors are from the Union of Youth Federations…
Most road accident prevention efforts in Cambodia have focused on things like speeding or driving drunk, but cell phone use while driving is also a serious concern for road safety. Min Manavy, secretary of state at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and secretary-general of the National Road Safety Commission, said that only a small number of people are being fined each year for using their cell phones while driving as many don’t pull over when stopped by the police. “We hope that drivers will obey the traffic rules for their own safety if no one else’s, but it’s…
Physical art exhibitions allow you to get inside the gallery hall and enjoy the artworks in a set time at a set place for a limited time period. But now you don’t have to travel to a gallery to view and purchase artwork if you are too busy with work. All you have to do is download the YouAdMe app to your smartphone and access the Angkor Art category and you can shop for several dozen things through it. “Angkor Art has a category of its own in YouAdMe’s ‘Shop’ section,” said Zhi Ying, chief commercial officer of YouAdMe, a…