Education
Education ads on Valentine’s Day
Before the Valentine’s Day celebration on February 14, Cambodian teenagers seem to express their pleasures and they are also prepared already gifts for their loves. But what is important is that they do not understand well the meaning of Valentine’s Day. Therefore, the ministry of women’s affairs produces the five-minute education spots in order to [...]
Government institutions required to use Khmer Unicode
Recently, all government institutions have been required to switch their computers to the Khmer Unicode Standard. All government’s documents have to be typed in Khmer Unicode instead of previous different Khmer fonts.
Khmer Unicode fonts have been developed since 1996 and its standard was fixed in 1999. By the way, Unicode assigns a unique number to [...]
Students were required to pay informal school fee
Before starting to make discussion about Cambodia’s education sector, I just want to ask all of you whether you used to pay informal school fee to your teachers while you were at the State-primary and secondary schools. According to the Constitution, all children are encouraged to enroll into the public schools with free of charge. [...]
Choun Nath’s Electronic Khmer Dictionary updated
The Buddhist Institute launched the second edition of an electronic Khmer dictionary which is available for all Cambodian students and others to download on the internet with free of charge. Khmer dictionary is based on the work of revered Cambodian scholar and Buddhist patriarch Choun Nath.
The original Khmer dictionary was written by Scholar Choun Nath [...]
Valentine’s Day confused young youths’ mind
As I remembered, the celebration of Valentine’s Day has been made since 2000 after the first national election. Young youths always keep this event in their mind and regard it as the special day for their true love. In reality, this event is not Khmer culture. When I was at high school, I never heard [...]
Khmer Poem still alive for Cambodian youths
All people always saw and heard the well-know Khmer Scholar, Krom Ngoy (1865-1936), aka “Phirum Ngoy” or “Ngoy the language master”. He usually performed “Chapei” at the various religious ceremonies and festivals by taking his meaningful poetry of form of rhyming “Chapei” songs. His poems are concerned with the moral issues and teach people about [...]