Mao Chi Channa

In 1981 the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) received a request from the secretariat of the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) to help them compile foreign trade statistics in their member States. After an initial evaluation it became clear that this would require Customs clearance offices to be involved since they are the source of much statistical information on trade.

Taking advantage of advances in information technology UNCTAD proposed a Customs software system which would be modular, adaptable and configurable so that it could be used in difficult environments requiring only a small number of trained maintenance staff.

UNCTAD succeeded with the assistance of some member States to develop such a system, which is now commonly known under its name ASYCUDA.

Today ASYCUDA is the leading system for Customs modernization worldwide. The ASYCUDA software is today the core component of comprehensive, Integrated Customs Information Systems in more than 80 countries. The main objective of the programme is to help countries facilitate trade by strengthening the Customs administrations´ capacity to carry out their operations by using modern and reliable systems.

ASYCUDA accelerates Customs clearance and simplifies procedures through computerization. This cuts costs for businesses and shortens the time it takes to process goods. Governments gain from improved control of Customs, increased revenue and availability of reliable and timely statistical information.

The ASYCUDA Business Strategy follows the founders’ strategic objectives:

1. ASYCUDA should assist Customs Administrations’ modernisation and reforms, by supporting both facilitation of legitimate trade and efficiency of Customs clearance controls.
2. ASYCUDA must implement harmonized codes, international standards, simplified procedures etc. The expected basic outputs are a uniform application of the Customs law and regulations, a better command on the collection of duties and taxes, and the availability of timely and accurate statistics.
3. ASYCUDA should fit the requirements of all Customs operations worldwide: A unique, parameterised system, which brings a vast economy of scale, allowing UNCTAD to propose very cost-effective solutions. Country-specific requirements must be fulfilled provided they are not incompatible with objective 2. In addition, any specific enhancement of ASYCUDA must maintain the functional and technical coherence of the system.
4. ASYCUDA is provided by UNCTAD at no cost . The implementation of the system is carried out through UNCTAD Technical Assistance projects, comprising general support activities, training, documentation and/or specific product developments on a cost-recovery [non profit] basis.
5. ASYCUDA products should match highest quality standards of the industry. In order to do so, the ASYCUDA software will make use of latest reliable technologies available on the market .

The implementation of these strategic concepts has led to the development of three major versions of the software product, ASYCUDA Ver. 1, ASYCUDA Ver. 2 and ASYCUDA Ver. 3 (ASYCUDA++), and the current development of ASYCUDAWorld.

ASYCUDA is a computerised customs management system which covers most foreign trade procedures.  The system handles manifests and customs declarations, accounting procedures, transit and suspense procedures.

ASYCUDA generates trade data that can be used for statistical economic analysis.

The ASYCUDA software is developed in Geneva by UNCTAD.  It operates on micro in a client server environment under UNIX and DOS operating systems and RDBMS Software.

ASYCUDA takes into account the international codes and standards developed by ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation), WCO (World Customs Organization) and the United Nations.

ASYCUDA can be configured to suit the national characteristics of individual Customs regimes, National Tariff, legislation,…

ASYCUDA provides for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between traders and Customs using EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport) rules.

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It must be amazement, that the beautiful colorful mobile phone price only 18$ and avialable for all phone operators (SIMs) . The Metfone MF316Z  look thin and nice that designed with black color and streak by red line and coming with a smal flashing light . 

 The MF314z is the product of Metfone that designed for serving the company service only, It means that It designed for Metfone SIM (097) only. Eventhogh, now it is avialable for all kinds of SIM in Cambodia. We use chip (small cercuit) to place under the SIM that we want to use. But we have to cut the SIM as the shap of Chip (see the picture). We can buy the chip at any phone shops (especailly at Night Market near Psa Chas). the Chip is only $4 . if we buy both of phone and chip is only $18.

 ADVANTAGES OF USAG :

• Cheap Price : if we copare to other mobile phone series. the Metfone MF316z is cheaper than other. it is only $18.
• Khmer OS : the Operating System is Khmer Language that allow us to write message, recode contact name, and other functions in Khmer.
• Beautiful : it is the kind of super slim style mobile phone , designed with black red color. color display with 65K color Screen. and also the useful flashing-light.

DISADVANTAGES OF USAG :

• Code logged off : It is designed for Metfone SIM only. the other SIMs are required the Code to log on. if we want to use with other operators like 012,010,011,098,068………… We have to buy a chip to place under the sim in order to log on the code.
• Error : chip that we use to support the SIMs, is not come along with the phone. I mean, It is other device that designed by another man so it must be not support well. it is easy to error when the phone is not use carefully. somtime it has nos service signal beause the SIM is out of Chip.
• other points I cannot see now, hope I will get sharing from all readers.

In conclusion, the Metfone MF316z is the very nice phone and it is acceptable to use even it has some bad points. It is an economic phone, that allow us to save the money in buy mobile phoen. it is cheap but up to date.

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What is a domain name?

A domain name is a name that you use to get to a website. Usually it ends with .COM or with your local national extension such (.kh=khmer), (.lk=lanka), (.uk=united Kingdom) and other extension like (.info=information), (.org=organization), (.edu=education) and so on.

If we want to use the domain name we have to pay. see www.name.com to check out the price of each extension. But we can use also free domains name which are providing by some company.

According to my experience, the domain name Dot TK (.tk) is a FREE domain registry for all websites on the Internet. It has exactly the same power as other domain extensions, but it’s free! Because it’s free, millions of others have been using .TK domains since 2001, which makes .TK powerful and very recognizable.

How to make it work?

Using Do TK, you can convert your long sub-domain name to the short one.

• First step, you must have a domain name or sub-domain name for your website already.
• Second step, you just convert it to be Dot TK extension-Domain name.

For Example: I have a long sub-domain name ( www.channa.110mb.com) . It is too long to remember, so want to change it to be a short one likes  (www.channa.tk) . It is easy, just type domain name that you want (www.channa.tk) in the text box below and enter,  than you will be asked to type your long sub-domain name (Ex: www.channa.110mb.com ) in order to replace it. As a result, you will get the cool and lovely free domain name.

TRY IT NOW

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  There are many hoting companies that are proving free hosting service. Free hosting can help us in testing website or can be hosted for personal or Bussiness website also. Normally, Free Hosting is limited. Some hosting is allowed to use only one or two months and another provides less authority to users, for example they allowed only Website with HTML extension or PHP but no Mysql……….

According to my experiences, Free hosting company that useful and reliable is www.110mb.com. It is free 5 GB space and no Ads. Moreover we can use either our own domain name or subdomain name. Click to register free hosting now!

When you have registered sucessfully, you will get a sub-domain name. For example your user name is channa, you will get sub-domain name www.channa.110mb.com. you can add a domain name that you love to use, for instance, I am using my domain name www.channa.tk. It means that either www.channa.110mb.com or www.channa.tk are pointed to the same homepage.

Popularity: 73% [?]