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Two news articles on the BBC question the legacy of operation of Internet Service Providers in the United Kingdom. I’m not so surprised that this case is happening everywhere around the world, either in Canada or in Cambodia.

In September, the article suggested that broadband speeds in the UK are much slower than advertised by net firms. This month, the other article, titled ‘Net firms quizzed on speed limits,’ demands that more information is required for Internet subscribers.

“This problem has been building for a while with a growing gulf between what is advertised and what is delivered,” said Paul Allen, editor of Computeractive.

Since ISPs business is increasingly growing in Cambodia in recent years, I think that one of the best ways to compete with other rivals is being more open with their customers.

In the Observer Magazine writer William Dalrymple has an interesting piece on Bayon styled temple Ta Prohm of Cambodia. In this feature article some of the greatest travel experts in Britain reveal their best travel secrets in places in Sri Lanka and Albania. Backpackers may find this not a very good read since William took the journey to Siem Reap, the country’s most popular tourist destination, with his small kids and stayed at a luxury hotel, but the writer tells almost everything about this 12th-century temple in one great piece of writing: the interconnection of the Killing Field, peaceful Cambodians in this present time, and Jayavarman VII, a king of the Khmer Empire.

So unusually gentle, peaceful and friendly were the Cambodians we met - the smiling schoolchildren and the beautiful village women on their way to market - that my children simply refused to believe the stories I tried to tell them of the old days of the Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields.

According to encyclopedia Wikipedia, Ta Prohm is the modern name of this ancient temple; originally it’s called Rajavihara, which means ‘royal temple’.