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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, [...]

Buying lesson, cake, candy and paying money to teacher are corruption in education sector?

vutha — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:22:11 +0000

Schools will be able to be a training school to educate corruption, if schoolboys and schoolgirls are required to buy candy or cakes sold by teachers, or to pay party for teachers, or to buy gifts for teachers at the end of each year. And students have been forced to buy lessons [...]

Government institutions required to use Khmer Unicode

vutha — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:08:13 +0000

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 [...]

Khmer Poem still alive for Cambodian youths

vutha — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:33:14 +0000

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 [...]

Young people and new ICT

vutha — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:55:17 +0000

In the modern era, the new technologies are growing much faster than the older information and communication technology (ICT) in developed and developing countries such as internet, mobile phone, computer use and so on. The young people are the main user of the new ICTs, especially the internet and more advanced features of [...]

Technology is engine of education

vutha — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:38:51 +0000

During three-day debate in workshop organized by the Department of Scientific Research in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports under fund support from Unesco. The workshop was focusing on International Trends in science and technology and their potential application in developing countries, by attending from other countries such as Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Papua New [...]

Habit of cheating during exam

vutha — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:37:27 +0000

Cambodia education is important but the annual exam for high Khmer school always have been held but the bad smell of irregularities, cheating, corruption always appeared during the day of exam while students paid some cash to exam proctors and controllers to allow them for cheating, copying and having answered checked by other students. That [...]

Dine out with friends

vutha — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:27:12 +0000

One of 10 students awarded scholarship in Fulbright Fellowship Program 2008-09 to pursue his graduate degree in USA is a friend of mine (Sim Hoychhoung ). Before leaving home country and friends, I had dinner with him and other friends together on Monday.

He tries his best to pass this scholarship, [...]

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 [...]

Unemployment and labor market

vutha — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:28:49 +0000

Hundreds of fresh university students leave their schools every year, and those of them are facing unemployment because labor markets cannot meet sufficiently labor demand. While graduated students also are not guaranteed by schools or universities. Presently, 70% of the population is underage 30 years old.

The third Career Forum 2007 [...]

Concept of Love on Valentine’s Day

vutha — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:02:49 +0000

Previous article, I posted the different variety of meaning of roses. At the time, I quote some proverbs saying about Love on the Valintine’s Day:

“Men and women, women and men. It will never work.” by Erica Jong “Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.” by Lynda Barry “Love is, above all, the [...]

A different variety of Meanings of Rose

vutha — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 03:15:22 +0000

Today, young people always give gifts or flowers to their partners and friennds in special occasion such as B-day, Farewell party, Valentine Day, and so on. Some young people don’t understand well about the meaning of color of Rose. Rose have been the traditional choice of lovers around the world. Valentine Day is [...]