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Loading ...I’m compiling a list of websites that publish job listings in Cambodia. This would be a useful resource for local Cambodians as well as Cambodian expatriots wishing to return home to make a positive difference in our beloved homeland.
Here are some sites that publish job listings in Cambodia:
If you know of any others, please contact me. I will add them to the list.
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(2 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...People’s Daily Online
February 09, 2007
Cambodia expects to receive 2 million tourists in 2007, local media reported on Thursday.
“We hope, based on predictions, that the number of tourists to Cambodia will grow to two million in 2007,” Tourism Minister Lay Prohas was quoted by the Koh Santepheap as saying during a ministerial conference.
Deputy Prime Minister Nhiek Bun Chhay was quoted as saying that “We should advertise more broadly to attract tourists to our country, and motivate them to stay longer, travel further and spend more money, and we can do so depending on good security and a clean environment. These factors are dependent on officials of local authorities across the country’s 24 municipalities and provinces,”
Oudam’s Comments:
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Although Cambodia has benefited greatly from tourism, I should point out that not all tourism is good for the country.
Cambodia is currently being swamped by foreign sex tourists and pedophiles. Sex tourists don’t go to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat or stay in 5-star hotels. And they don’t take their families along to spend money in our country.
The prevalence of sex tourists in Cambodia could harm the country’s tourism industry by driving away family-oriented tourists, as brothels, bars and nightclubs replace Angkor Wat and Toul Sleng as the country’s main attractions.
That Cambodia has the highest HIV infection in Asia should deter some sex tourists from visiting the country, unless, of course, they are already HIV-positive themselves. Riding along Monivong Boulevard, I see countless young Cambodian prostitutes, many of whom apparently underaged, with Western sex tourists bearing signs of full-blown AIDS. Far from contributing to the Cambodian economy, HIV-positive sex tourists will contribute to the spread of the AIDS epedemics, leaving an already impoverished country to pick up the bills for their sexual exploits.
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(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Phnom Penh (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Oil companies have begun lining up for licenses to tap Cambodia’s vast oil and gas fields, but experts are wondering whether this new wealth will be a blessing for the country. Firms from China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Kuwait, Australia, and France have come knocking on officials’ doors to get permits to explore and develop the country’s energy riches. US giant Chevron Corp. has already drilled in the Gulf of Thailand in the last two years and found oil in five oil wells.
According to several studies conducted by the United Nations, World Bank, Harvard University, and other reliable institutions, Cambodian reserves could contain as many as 2 billion barrels of oil and 10 trillion cubic feet of gas. Based on the current world price of oil and gas, this may provide Cambodia with annual revenues of US$ 6 billion a year over the next two decades, an amount more than the country’s gross domestic product which is only about US$5 billion a year.
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