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Opening saving account for your kids?

vutha — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:45:53 +0000

All of us may have different dreams and different wishes. However all parents have a common hope and that is to give the best to their children so that they can have a bright future. Education is undeniably the greatest vehicle to get to such as dream. Nevertheless, we’ve all known that education, [...]

Life of Cambodian Beggars

vutha — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:20:08 +0000

Nowadays, although there are a lot of organizations and centre of educations where help orphans and poor people in Phnom Penh, but I have still seen some beggars along the streets begging for money from travelers at the traffic lights, from guests at the restaurants, at the national museum, on the public gardens, [...]

Teach my niece to use computer

vutha — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:53:33 +0000

At the present, the price of computer is cheaper than the last five years, and the price of internet is cheap as well. they afford computer for their kids. For me, I got started to knew how to use computer when i was at university in 1997 and know how to use [...]

Need help Cambodian children in Siem Reap

vutha — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:48:57 +0000

I received email from Rey from Singapore who suggested me to write review some problem affecting Cambodian children living in ACODO organization. His email read:

I am from Singapore and visited Siem Reap last month, where I found an orphanage ACODO which is currently relying only on donations from tourists [...]

Decrease in social morality

vutha — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:45:53 +0000

Moral and ethic education is very important for social welfare, if the decrease in social morality is to cause problem in the society such as violence, conflict, drug-use, school-drop out, crime, robbery and so on. Strengthening and expanding social morality education is a key factor for social happiness and life-style.

On the contrary, [...]

Charity Party for collecting money to help poor students

vutha — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:17:09 +0000

On Sunday evening, I joined the party called â€œThe First Ever Youth Gathering Partyâ€ organized by the volunteer youths at Slek Toey Restaurant. The purposes of forming this network are to foster education outreach by procuring study materials to underprivileged kids and youths, to strengthen communication between teenagers, young children and other communities and [...]

Parents: The Greatest Person in Your Life

vutha — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:25:17 +0000

(This article is the guest blogged by Lyda)

Well, I think that I donâ€™t have to talk it in a long way. I would like to say it strength away. Our parents are the god, the greatest person in our life or mind. When you have problems (it can be any kind of [...]

Stop charging student’s birth certificates

vutha — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:01:24 +0000

Two-year birth certificates have been required for junior and senior school examinations by the ministry of education in order to avoid accidentally wrong names and birth date on the list. But local authorities have charged the copied birth certificates between $2.50 to $5 in the provinces and $10 in Phnom Penh, just only stamped [...]

Long string of Cans

vutha — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:52:28 +0000

The boy is holding a long string of used cans of beer at wedding tent, where I joined this wedding in Kompong Speur province. That is not odd for Cambodian young boys or girls to collect cans for selling.

School boys and Girls

vutha — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:51:52 +0000

After Khmer Rouge regime was toppled, most of Cambodian people attended school too late. Because school building had been destroyed and closed. To me, I was too late to attend school as well, aged at 10. Looking at the present time, young boys and girls start their study at the age of [...]

Grand Concert Bosbapanh

vutha — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:45:52 +0000

On December 21, 2007, younger singer, Bosbapanh, will sing her new songs for the second album from 7pm at Chaktomuk Theatre (Phnom Penh) under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture. She is 10 year, her mom is Laotian and her daddy is Cambodia. Her band was named â€œLa Compaignie BOSBAPANHâ€. She [...]

Life of boy and girl in rural areas

vutha — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:37:50 +0000

After studying at school and school vocation, boys and girls in remote and rural areas always spend their time to help their parents. I went to Svay Rieng and sew boy and girl herding cows in front of their house. I thought that their lives are not different from theirs in the same rural [...]

Poor children have less opportunity to attend school

vutha — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:59:59 +0000

At the beginning of new academic year 2007-08 started on October 2007 with an opening ceremony as planned. Parents have been required to register their children at public school at age 6, while they reach the age of schooling. Even though, all of them have an equal chance to attend school, the children is [...]

Workshop on â€œRole of youth in peace buildingâ€

vutha — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:18:05 +0000

Last week, I went to Siem Reap to attend workshop on â€œRole of youth in peace buildingâ€ organized by Youths for Peace from 20-25 September, 2007 with 200 young participants from different provinces and municipality, including Phnom Penh, Battambang, Kampong Chhnang, and Takeo provinces.

There are many issues happening in the current society [...]

Trading Sex with virgin in Cambodia

vutha — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:04:34 +0000

The International Organization for Migration released report on â€œThe Ties that Bind: Migration and Trafficking of Women and Girls for Sexual Exploitation in Cambodiaâ€; there are about 85 percent of the Asian men who pay to have sex with virgin in Cambodia, which around half of the Asian clients are Khmer (47%) [...]

Shoeshine boy

vutha — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:18:47 +0000

â€œPoo !!! Need me to polish a pair of your shoeâ€ that is the pity voice coming from the boyâ€™s mouth while I met him at the lunch restaurant along Mekong river on the other side of river.