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Phnom Penh port: Terminal to ease snarls for tourists
The Phnom Penh Autonomous Port began construction on its new US$80,000 passenger terminal yesterday with plans to wrap up work by the end of the year.
“A new terminal providing good services will make a positive impression on national and international tourists,” director general Hei Bavy said yesterday.
Some 50 to 100 tourists use the current facilities every day, embarking on journeys to places such as Siem Reap, Kratie and Chau Doc in Vietnam, he said.
The $80,000 terminal will be two storeys and 525 square metres, with a capacity for 100 passengers when it’s complete by the end of the year, he said. Foreigners will be charged $1 per visit.
Cambodia Association of Travel Agents President Ang Kim Eang welcomed the port’s new terminal yesterday.
“I think it’s a good idea – it will respond to the needs of tourists and eliminate unorganised crowds,” he said.
The port generated $28,085 from 22,859 tourists during the first six months, compared with 18,159 tourists generating $27,733 during the same period in 2009.
Sweets to lure tourists
AN exhibition of Khmer cakes and desserts is hoped to spread awareness of traditional sweets among tourists and prepare Cambodia for 2011’s ASEAN Tourist Forum, according to a press release from the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and Phnom Penh City Hall.
The event will be held from September 24 to 26 on Diamond Island.
Khmer alt-rock band releases first album
With their thudding alternative rock music, jerky dance moves and fancy hairstyles, it might have been difficult to tell what country the musicians playing at T&C on Monivong Boulevard last weekend were from. Thailand? South Korea? Japan?
None of the above.They were a group of five young Cambodians who one year ago formed their own band called Cartoon eMo with a commitment – rare in this country – to writing their own songs. Their live set at T&C was in celebration of the release of their self-titled debut album.
At the launch event on the weekend, lead guitar player Ny Noly said the band’s name was a play on the “emo” style of music and fashion that the group follows. “We are proud to use our own abilities to create new music, which we hope will help develop the arts scene in Cambodia,” he said. “We also hope young Cambodians will accept our original work.”
The album was produced by Svang Dara film production company with cooperation from Sabay technology company.
“Rock music is not popular in Cambodia nowadays, so our company is introducing this original Khmer-style rock music to the people of the country,” Meng Sok Vireak, the executive director of Svang Dara, said at the album launch.
Chi Seila, the director of Sabay, said he has been interested in Cartoon eMo since they formed a year ago.
“The formation of the band shows that our arts scene is developing, even if a little slowly,” he said, and added that his company plans to help spread the word about the band through its technology service such as websites and mobile phones.
Source: Phnom Penh Post
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