Cambodian News

Song Pro is a widow from the Pnorng ethnic group. She lives in Mondulkiri province, where she has watched all five of her children drop out of school, none of them reaching beyond the fourth grade.
Most of them now are fully grown, young men and women without jobs, a source of much regret to their [...]

The National Heritage Fellowship is the highest form of federal recognition for folk and traditional arts. Shapiro and 10 others were awarded this year.
“The reason why I think her award today is so important is that it gives her the ability to continue the art,” Laura Richardson, a Democratic congresswoman from California who joined the [...]

Two Cambodian youths who won a trip to the US from a television contest in Cambodia are meeting with US government officials and lawmakers.
In the contest, youth exhibit leadership skills, confidence and knowledge of democracy, in a program broadcast on CTN that is gaining in popularity.
This is the third sponsored trip conducted with support from [...]

More than 300 medical students from three universities gathered for a second day of peaceful protests Friday, claiming the medical school had prevented too many advancements among them.
The students came from the schools of dentistry, pharmacology and medicine, and some claimed they had been prevented from seeing recent exam scores.
“I want to know my score, [...]

The world is losing one language every two weeks, linguistics experts warned on Tuesday, estimating that half of the 7,000 different languages spoken today will be lost by 2100.
“The loss of a single language is really a loss for all of us,” Susan Penfield, program director of the National Science Foundation, said during a talk [...]

In celebration of International Children’s Day Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Cambodian needed to improve the quality of its education system.
“The quality of Cambodian education is low,” Hun Sen said in a speech. “We must push further toward paying attention to all children, especially providing opportunities for girls to have basic education for at [...]

Ohio University graduate student So Farina is a Cambodian Muslim. She was awarded the Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund Grant on May 19 in Washington, one of ten award recipients worldwide. She is the first Cambodian to receive the award. So Farina impressed the selection committee with her research on Muslim women under the Khmer Rouge.
She [...]

Ly Navy had just come back from school. Wearing her school uniform and a scarf to cover her head, the second-year medicine student at Phnom Penh’s University of Health Science entered a room filled with bunk beds, bookshelves and wardrobes.
For now this was her home, a hostel for female Muslims on the grounds of the [...]

The Cambodian Teacher’s Association has found the value of education in Cambodia decreasing, as students were leaving school and teachers were not always tending to their classes.
In interviews with 460 teachers in nine provinces, the association said Wednesday, 93 percent said students were abandoning their studies due to poverty, bribes charged by teachers, or school [...]

PHNOM PENH, March 12 (Xinhua) — The United Nations has granted 6,252,871 U.S. dollars for Cambodia to develop its education sector in 2009, said official news agency the Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) on Thursday.
UN channeled the grant through its Children’s Funds to the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS), said [...]