Cambodian News

Buddhist monks and educators in San Jose, Calif., have noted a growing concern in Khmer communities regarding the loss of the Khmer language in the US and the linkage it offers to Cambodian culture and traditions.
A community of Cambodian volunteers has been running the Cambodian Literacy School of San Jose for 20 years to prevent [...]

PHNOM PENH, 5 December 2008 (IRIN) – When Sok Sopheap could not pay his daily bribe, his secondary school teacher refused to let him attend class.
The teacher demanded he stand for an hour by the door until the class finished.
“It was humiliating, but it happens a lot to students,” said the 19-year-old son of a [...]

Prospective students for Phnom Penh’s University of Medicine undertook a third day of demonstrations Friday, angered that a high number of them had failed and swearing to continue protests until they are admitted.
Around 400 would-be medical students have been protesting since Wednesday, with less than 400 out of 1,800 test-takers able to meet the 50 [...]

PHNOM PENH, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) — A draft of the 2009 national budget indicates that the Cambodian government intends to increase funding for the country’s defense and education sectors, English-language newspaper the Cambodia Daily said on Wednesday.
The 2009 national budget totals 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, 19 percent of which, or 223 million dollars, will be [...]

HANOI, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — The number of dropout students in Vietnam has sharply increased nationwide to one million over the last six years, the highest in the Southeast Asia, Vietnam News reported on Thursday, citing the source with the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The Philippines, with 648,000 dropouts, [...]

Behind the voices of students, the noise of the sea spread over high grass, the classroom and a nearby pagoda. Surrounded by beaches and mountain forest and imbued with fresh air, Prek Svay, one of only five primary schools on the island of Koh Rong, would seem like an ideal place to study. Unfortunately, the [...]

More than 100 schools along the border in three provinces reopened Monday, following closures in the wake of military clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers last week.
More than 150 schools in Bantheay Meanchey, Oddar Meanchey and Preah Vihear provinces were closed last week, after an hour of gun battles near Preah Vihear temple led to [...]

UC Berkeley anatomy professor and neuroscientist Marian Diamond was delighted to learn last Wednesday that two of her students were heading to college-not her UC Berkeley students, but the orphaned children she taught in a poverty-stricken monastery in the forests of Cambodia.
Every winter for the past seven years, Diamond has traveled to the Siem Reap [...]

Cambodia’s Ministry of Education Youth and Sport says the government isn’t satisfied with the current quality of education.
The Ministry’s higher education deputy director general, Mak Ngoy, says increasing the number of higher education institutions is a positive sign, but the country is struggling with the hard task of strengthening quality.
In 2000, there were 10 post-secondary [...]

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — She has two years to go until graduation, but already Cambodian student Chhum Savorn is filled with a sense of dread.
The 21-year-old decided to major in finance, hoping she would acquire skills to help develop her country, which is one of the poorest in the world.
Instead, she thinks her education is [...]