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- Battambang woman’s drone service aims high
- Takeo man turns banana tree fibres into woven krama
- Siem Reap shop shapes lamps from copper
- Farmer tames wild duckweed for use as animal feed
- Takeo chopsticks offer locally sourced green alternative
- CheckinMe: Revolutionising employee attendance and Sales Tracking
- Lemongrass cultivation expanding for essential oil production in Siem Reap
CheckinMe: Revolutionising employee attendance and Sales Tracking
Despite having less than 10 employees in each of his two companies, Chiv Sankhun found himself constantly having to visit both locations.
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Lemongrass cultivation expanding for essential oil production in Siem Reap
Sun, 4 Jun 2023 | 09:01Lemongrass, a traditional crop in Cambodia, has served as a versatile cooking spice and a source of medicinal benefits.
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Takeo chopsticks offer locally sourced green alternative
Sun, 19 Mar 2023 | 09:05The vast majority of reusable bamboo chopsticks are imported; meaning the environmental cost of transporting them can sometimes outweigh the benefits that come with avoiding cheap disposable cutlery. One man in Takeo province is slowly restoring that balance.
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Takeo man turns banana tree fibres into woven krama
Tue, 14 Mar 2023 | 09:16At present, some Cambodians know how to process fruits or cassava tubers, bananas, wine into candy.
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Battambang woman’s drone service aims high
Sun, 12 Mar 2023 | 09:27A woman who provides pesticide spraying services using drones in Battambang province is gaining support from farmers after running the service for more than two years.
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Farmer tames wild duckweed for use as animal feed
Sun, 12 Mar 2023 | 09:11Duckweed is a plant that grows naturally in Cambodia’s lakes and ponds and is often used as feed for chickens, ducks and pigs by farmers who collect it from the places where it grows wild. One man, however, has decided to grow duckweed
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Siem Reap shop shapes lamps from copper
Mon, 6 Mar 2023 | 09:24Cambodia's national flower – the rumduol – and stars are considered to be lucky objects to be displayed on the occasion of Khmer New Year and are common decorative motifs.
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Kampong Thom entrepreneur turns kapok fruit fibres into textiles
Thu, 2 Mar 2023 | 09:15It is common to see some woven fabrics such as hol and phamuong skirts – silk handwoven fabrics – made from silkworm nests, along with fabric made from cotton or synthetics.
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Khmer Unicode creator developing ‘AI’ spell check
Mon, 27 Feb 2023 | 09:58In 2001, Dahn Hong developed Khmer Unicode, which remains the basis for most Khmer language fonts in use today. He designed the Unicode – a standardised system which assigns a unique number to each character – in response to frustration with the Limon font
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Villageworks replacing plastic with banana trees
Mon, 20 Feb 2023 | 08:47Banana trees are typically cut down by farmers after one harvest because they die after fruiting. The rest of the tree aside from the fruit that gets cut down becomes a pile of waste that typically goes unused for any purpose.
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Kampong Speu jewelry maker rocking local industry
Wed, 15 Feb 2023 | 09:29A young man in Kampong Speu is finding success with a range of bead necklaces that are proving popular online.