REAKSMEY KONGKEA

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The Royal Government of Cambodia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam have strengthened their cooperation, solidarity and friendship to make immortal ties and friendship between the two countries in the future. The strengthening of the two-country friendships and cooperation was made through the state-visit of Vietnamese President H.E. Nguyen Minh Triet and Spouse, and other Vietnamese delegates who paid a state visit from 26th to 28th August 2010 in Cambodia. Koy Kuong, Spokesperson and Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said that so far, the cooperation, solidarity and friendships between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Social Republic of Vietnam has been strengthened and promoted. The progress of investment, trade and tourism between the two countries has also greatly increased in Cambodia. “The state visit of the Vietnamese Prime Minister has promoted the bilateral friendship and cooperation and other...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The Voice of Vietnam Radio (VOV) has officially launched on August 27th in Phnom Penh in order to promote bilateral tie and cooperation, solidarity and friendship between the two countries. The official opening ceremony of Vietnam’s VOV Radio was inaugurated under the presidency of H.E. Nguyen Minh Triet, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and H.E. Khieu Kanharith, Minister of Information of Cambodia at the Inter-Continental Hotel, participated by Cambodian government officials and Vietnamese media experts. Mr. Vu Van Hien, Director General of the Voice of Vietnam Radio, said that it marked the first time as VOV Radio has officially opened its representative radio office in Cambodia to provide information between the two countries as well as from other countries for people in the Kingdom of Cambodia. The Director General continued to say that the purpose of the VOV Radio establishment aims to report information from Cambodia to Vietnam as well as t...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will donate Human Resource Development Center project for the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) with the estimated cost of US$ 6.5 million. Mr. Son Sung-il, Deputy Representative of KOICA Cambodia, said that the project was designed with the purpose to improve national competitiveness of Cambodia through human resource development program. He added that for next five years, expected to start from 2010 to 2014, the project will cover the establishment Human Resource Development Center equipped with modern teaching materials, creating human resource development program including Information Technology, and Technical Training courses, and dispatching Korean experts. “The final agreement over this project will be signed by the two countries after the last seminar was held on August 31st, focusing on the presentation and discussion of result of basic design study of Cambodia-Korea Human Resource Development Cent...

By BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA Ten selected football teams from cities and provinces throughout the country have attended competition of “Metfone Cambodian League 2010”, started from the 27th of March to the 22nd of August 2010 at the National Sport Complex in Phnom Penh to compete for becoming the Champion of Metfone Cambodian League 2010. The first “Metfone Football League” competition was organized by the Football Federation of Cambodia (FFC), and supported by the Metfone Company which is the Vietnamese Telecom company operating in the Kingdom of Cambodia. As result, the Phnom Penh Crown Football Club has won the Championship of the “Metfone Cambodian League 2010”. Gen. Sao Sokha, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF), Chief of the Military Police Headquarters and President of the Football Federation of Cambodia (FFC), said the winners of the Metfone Cambodian League has shown about their hard training, hard works, commitments and talents in competition. The...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The Ministry of Education Youth and Sport (MoEYS) and Phnom Penh Municipality have organized the “Public Sport Regional Phnom Penh Center Championship 2010” from the 6th to the 20th of August at the National Stadium in Phnom Penh to select the champion of Public Sport About 200 athletes from 12 different sport institutions in Phnom Penh have attended the competition. The 12 sport units from military court’s football team; the Secretariat of the National Assembly’s football team; CMAC’s football team; Senate’s football team; the National Management for Disaster’s football and volleyball teams; Ministry of Information’s football and volleyball team; Phnom Penh Municipality’s basketball, volleyball and athlete teams; 911 Military Paratrooper’s volleyball team; Institute of Sport and Education’s basketball; Ministry of Interior’s athletes; Ministry of National Defense’s athlete team; and Build Bright United’s athlete teams. H.E. Bun Sok, Secretary of State for the...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The Ministry of Health has taken measure to combat the outbreak and the epidemic of the dengue fever which will is most prominent during the rainy season. H.E. Dr. Eng Huoth, Secretary of State for the Ministry of Health, said that the dengue fever has quickly created health problems in developing countries especially the countries in the tropic region and in Southeast Asia region across the world. The breakout and epidemic of the dengue fever have increased in the region and the number of people who have been affected and died by dengue fever also has increased yearly, he said, adding that most people who get infected and die from dengue fever are children. “Dengue fever is considered a very serious disease which has threatens children under 15 and its outbreak and epidemic occurs nationwide both in cities and rural provinces or rural areas in the country,” he told the municipal and provincial health officers at a workshop on “situation control of outbreak an...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA With financial support from Goble Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), the National Road Safety Committee (NRSC) in collaboration with Handicap International Belgium (HIB) has organized the workshop on “Developing Cambodia’s 10 year-action plan from road safety 2011-2020” over two days from the 12th to the 13th of August 2010 at the Sunway Hotel in Phnom Penh. The workshop is aimed to set up developing Cambodia’s 10 year-action plan for road safety 2011-2020 in Cambodia. Gen. Khan Savoeun, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Interior (MoI), said that in recent years the deaths caused by accident has increased every day, and is still a main concern for Cambodians. He added that road accidents has also become a main subject and is the second biggest concern and worry for the Cambodian government disaster after HIV/AIDS in the country. He emphasized that according to the Ministry of Interior covering the first six moths of 2010, there are 3,040 cases of road acciden...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA CAMEMIS, which is a free web-based software application for educational establishments to manage student data, was firstly introduced to Cambodian teachers and Information Technology (IT) experts for use in the Kingdom of Cambodia. The first introduction of the CAMEMIS was conducted and presented by Mr. Kaom Vibolrith, CAMEMIS Author, and a Cambodian-German nationality, with over 100 participations who are school teachers, education officers and IT experts from about 50 different state universities and colleges and private universities and institutions in Phnom Penh. Kaom Vibolrith, CAMEMIS Author and Presenter, said that the event marked the first time as he has organized the workshop on CAMEMIS-Free Education Management Information System for school teachers and people in Cambodia. He added that the main purpose of the workshop was to introduce his CAMEMIS finding of new technology for people and the use in Cambodia. CAMEMIS is an Education management inform...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The General Commissariats of the National Police in the Ministry of Interior has closed a training course on ID Cards Production equipment for personnel police. The course was conducted for two months from June 2nd to August 6th, 2010 in Phnom Penh. The training course was financially supported by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). A total of 76 police officer ID cards, who were selected from 24 municipalities and provinces, had attended the ID Cards Production Training in order to learn about the new information technology and ID card production equipment. Lieutenant Gen. Yun Chhunny, Deputy Police Commissioner of the General Commissariats of National Police in Ministry of Interior, said that this marked the second time that UNDP has provided its supports to the Cambodia Identity card program contributing to the strengthening of democracy and electoral processes in Cambodia. The support also contributes to the human capacity, particularly to polic...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA Since the outbreak of the pig disease called “Porcine Reproductive Respiratory Syndrome” (PRRS) occurring in Cambodia in recent weeks, the Royal Government of Cambodia is now working hard to combat the outbreak and the epidemics of the PRRSD disease and stop the import of all kind of the pigs and pork from neighboring countries across the borders into Cambodia. Kao Phal, Director of Animal Health and Food Production Department (AHFPD) in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries (MoAFF), said that PRRS disease is becoming a challenging and more concerned diseases for people in Cambodia. To combat this PRRS disease, on August 12th, his authority has invited about 100 pig farm companies’ owners or representatives whom are the stakeholder and his provincial AHFPD officials to meeting at the AHFPD office in Phnom Penh in order to discuss how can they work to respond to the PRRS crisis and to help the farmers, he said. The main objective of the meeting was ...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA Samdech Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has called for the meeting of the international conference to help resolve Preah Vihear Temple’s areas dispute, saying that bilateral approach between the two countries has broken down. The Prime Minister said that Cambodia-Thai Preah Vihear Temple border dispute may reach bloodshed, saying that only an international conference, with the participation of the ASEAN country member countries, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), all other countries and the 19 Signatory member Counties to the Paris Pease Accord, can help to resolve the border issue. “I think that now the use of any bilateral mechanism to resolve Preah Vihear border issue has broken down and cannot work anymore. Therefore, I am appealing for a multilateral participation from ASEAN, the UN Security Council, all other countries and the signatories to the Paris Peace Accords to help resolve the border dispute between Cambodia a...

BY BUTH REASKMEY KONGKEA The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Office in Cambodia in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts have organized the 1st Anniversary ceremony of the inscription of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archives in the Memory of the World International Register on August 9 at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. Jamie Hyo-Jin Lee, Communication Focus Point of UNESCO Phnom Penh Office, said that the event will feature speeches by His Excellency Hem Chhem, Minister of Culture and Fine Arts and His Excellency Teruo Jinnai, UNESCO Representative of Cambodia, and will conclude with art performances. He added that the Memory of the World is the documented, collective memory of the people of the world. It is the legacy of the past to the world community of the present and the future. “The UNESCO Memory of the World Program recognizes documentary heritage of international, regional and national significance, ma...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA Pa Nguon Teang, Director of the Cambodia Centre for Independent Media (CCiM), said that Media and NGOs are the partners to work and promote the good government and social accountability in Cambodia. The media and NGOs have a main role to work and to help the government in poverty reduction, promote good governance, social accountability and democracy, respect of human rights, generate sustainable economic development and accountability in the country. He said that the media and NGO groups should be partnered and has a good network of information sharing so that the media group can do their reporting within accuracy, fairness and credibility for the people and the government. “I think that good governance and social accountability, the media groups and NGOs should be partnered, cooperating and working closely with each other providing information and reporting. To achieve this goal, the media should play independent roles in reporting the accurate, fair and r...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The Ministry of Education Youth and Sport (MoEYS) in collaboration with the Cambodian Boxkator Federation (CBF) have organized the Nationwide Boxkator Championship 2010 over five days from the 29th of July to the 2nd of August 2010 at the National Stadium in Phnom Penh. A total of 279 boxers including 72 female from 14 boxkator boxing clubs and associations in Phnom Penh and provinces have attended the nationwide Boxkator Championship in Phnom Penh. As a result, 15 boxers won the championships 2010 while other 15 boxers took second place, and 19 boxers took third place of the competition. H.E. Meas Sarin, Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Education Youth and Sport, said that the competition is important because it will help MoESY as well as Cambodian government to preserve and promote Boxkator which is a Khmer ancient muscle art and traditional culture in Cambodia and in the world. The event will also help to encourage Cambodian people especially t...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The Bar Association of Cambodia (BAC) has conducted a workshop on the “Awareness of theCriminal Code” for three days from the 2nd to the 4th of August for Cambodian lawyers. About 100 layers have attended the workshop to learn about the new criminal codes. Chiv Song Hak, President of the Bar Association of Cambodia, said that the purpose of the workshop was to disseminate the new criminal code which was prepared and made by the Royal Government of Cambodia under the financial support of French Cooperation since 1998. The workshop aimed to contribute to the building and the development of Cambodia based on the social justice sector especially contributing to the law and justice reform in Cambodia so that Cambodia can achieve the correct state of law in the future. President Song Hak emphasized that there are six key chapters and 672 articles in the New Criminal Code. The New Criminal Code was prepared and made by the Royal Government of Cambodia with financial ...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA More than 500 Cambodian artists from 24 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and 10 provinces will attend the “Cambodia Youth Arts Festival 2010” from the 7th to the 11th of August 2010 at the Chaktomuk Hall Theatre in Phnom Penh. The Cambodia Youth Arts Festival 2010 is organized by the Cambodian Living Arts with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, together with over 20 other arts organizations from provinces and Phnom Penh. Mr. Phloeun Prim, Director of the Cambodian Living Arts and Organizer of the Cambodia Youth Arts Festival 2010, said that the tournament marked the 5th year of the competition because his organization has organized this event in Cambodia after the two youth arts festivals were held in Siem Reap and other two events held in Battambang provinces in recent years. The purpose of the youth arts festival is to raise and promote Khmer identification, traditions, cultures and Khmer forms of arts as well as to promote Khmer cult...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA His Majesty the King Preah Karuna Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni, King of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has praised the excellent work of the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) under the highest wisdom leadership from Lok Chum Teav Dr. Bun Rany Hun Sen, President of CRC. The King said that the Cambodian Red Cross under the wisdom leadership of Lok Chum Teav Dr. Bun Rany Hun Sen has been working very hard in providing its humanitarian work and assistances for rescuing and helping victims and the poor people in Cambodia. The King added that CRC’s hard work were also recognized and supported by the whole Cambodian society as well as both national and international donors inside and outside the country. “I wish to congratulate the great success that CRC has been done and achieved so far and I also wish to praise all CRC’s leaders who cooperated, working hard and leading all members of CRC to join hands, cooperate and voluntarily work in helping and rescuing ...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The Royal Government of Cambodia plans to recruit more young solders in a move to reform and perform military field, aiming to defend its territorial sovereignty. General Chhum Socheat, Under Secretary of State and the Spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, said that the Royal Government has prepared to recruit and reserve troops for serving the military obligation to defend the country. The draft sub-decree on recruiting reserve soldiers was already approved by the Council of Ministers and The National Assembly and it is now waiting for the final approval by His Majesty King Preah Bat Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni, the King of the Kingdom of Cambodia, he said, adding that the reserve soldiers are practiced in many other countries around the world and it has nothing related to the border conflict with Thailand. “The main purpose of having military reservation is to reform and to enhance in military field for a long-time vision,” he told The Southeast Asia...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) plans to send four of Cambodia’s selected athletes to attend the “Asian Youth Games” tournament in next month in Singapore. Vath Chamroeun, Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC), said that he plans to send four Cambodian athletes to attend in the “Asian Youth Games” 2010 competition which will take place on the 14th of August 2010 in Singapore. There are over 40 countries which will participate in the Games. The four selected athletes included one Taikwondo boxer; one wrestler; one swimmer; and one athlete who is the best athletes selected from the NOCC in Cambodia, he said, adding that the purpose of participation is to compete with other participating countries in order to gain honor for the Kingdom of Cambodia. “We are pleased to send our athletes to participate in the Asian Youth Games. We hope that within this participation, our athletes will try their best to win more meda...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA One of The University of Cambodia’s “Samdech Hun Sen-Handa National Scholarships 2009” students, Seng Pisith, 22, has provided an interview with The Southeast Asia Weekly on July 30th, describing about his desire in the future. Pisith was born in 1989 in Bati district in Takeo province and has two brothers and two sisters. He is the youngest brother in his in family. His parents are the business people sending goods at the Samrong Yong market in Bati district, in Takeo province. He now is studying Law at The University of Cambodia (UC) after he passed the scholarship exams offered in 2009. “I am happy as I passed the scholarship exams offered by The University of Cambodia in 2009 and have a chance to study Law at the UC which is one of the well-known universities in Cambodia,” he said. Seng Pisith studied at the Bun Rany-Hun Sen High School and he earned a Baccalaureate in 2009. He decided to study Law with The University of Cambodia because he wanted to bec...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA Dr. Handa Lecturer Series on “Student Leadership” was conducted by the Asian Leadership Center (ALC) and College of Management at The University of Cambodia (UC) at the UC Conference Center on July 30th in Phnom Penh. The lecture was over seen by Dr. Katherine Marshall, Professor of the Georgetown University, Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, and former Counselor to the President of the World Bank, and The University of Cambodia Distinguished Professor with the participation of over 1,000 UC students. Professor Dr. Katherine Marshall said that Leadership is very important for all people especial students who are the future leaders and human resources in the country. She added that to become future leaders with leadership qualities, students must know how to build on leadership, set training on leadership, and develop their speaking. She continued to say that they shall also look at the people that are and suitable for the leadership, ...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA Forty local journalists from newspapers, online newspapers and radios from different media organization have attended a training course on “Media and Accountability” from the 27th to the 28th of July in Koh Kong province in order to build and strengthen their capacity on journalism and code of conduct in Cambodia. The media and accountability training course was organized by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCiM) and funded by European Union (EU) and British Embassy to Cambodia and taught by Professor Kavy Chongkittavorn who is a Thai veteran and long- experienced journalist working in Asia. Mr. Pa Nguon Teang, Director of CCiM, said that it marked the third time as CCiM has organized the journalism training for the local journalists in Cambodia. He stated that the purpose of the training was to promote and strengthen the capacity, professional journalism and media skills for the journalists in Cambodia. “This training is very important for our journ...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The Royal Government of Cambodia plans to establish a Children’s Court in order to protect the children from being trafficked and forms of sexual exploitation and all forms of children’s rights violation in the future. Ith Rady, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice, said that this suggestion model proceeds upon the basis that the proposed court would be juvenile justice rather one that also exercises child protection powers. He added that the latter would of necessity be a more complex institution that would require an examination of the role of other government departments and their co-operation. It could perhaps be a project following the development of the first model. “The aim is to set up a model children’s Court for Cambodia at a suitable location to be introduced as part of the implementation of the new Cambodia juvenile justice law bearing in mind the current law in the first instance. The location would ideally be located in an area where a de...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The number of epidemic for the influenza of A (H1N1) has shortly increased in the raining season this year and threatened people’s health in Cambodia, according to the Ministry of Health officials. Dr. Ly Sovann, Deputy Director of the Disease Outbreak Department of the Ministry of Health, said that the number of epidemic of A (H1N1) has recently increased in the short period in Cambodia. The Deputy Director Ly Sovann continued to say that according to the Ministry of Health’s report, the epidemic of the A (H1N1) has 27 new cases increasing in this year’s raining season in some cities and provinces across the country. He added that there are a total of 623 cases of A (H1N1) influenza which happened in 2009 in Cambodia. “We are worry about our peoples’ health which could be affected by this new bird flu in Cambodia,” he said. “I would like to appeal to all Cambodian people to raise their awareness and take care of their family members from being having this dang...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) has already prepared troop and its actions against the Thai offensive and invasion in case they open their fighting or invading into Cambodian territory after Cambodia's management plan for the Preah Vihear temple was accepted by the World Heritage Committee’s consideration in Brazil. General Chhum Socheat, Under Secretary of State and the Spokesperson in the Ministry of the National Defense, said Cambodia has already planned and prepared for any Thai offensive or invasion, if there is fighting caused by the Thai’s after the Cambodia’s management for Preah Vihear Temple was accepted by the UNESCO’s Heritage Committee on July 30th. The Spokesperson Chhum Socheat added that despite Cambodia being a small country it is not afraid with the bigger countries which intend to invade Cambodia’s borders, integrated territory and sovereignty. “Although Cambodia is a small country we are not afraid to fight against any big countr...

BY BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA The National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) plans to send four of Cambodia’s selected athletes to attend the “Asian Youth Games” tournament in next month in Singapore. Vath Chamroeun, Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC), said that he plans to send four Cambodian athletes to attend in the “Asian Youth Games” 2010 competition which will take place on the 14th of August 2010 in Singapore. There are over 40 countries which will participate in the Games. The four selected athletes included one Taikwondo boxer; one wrestler; one swimmer; and one athlete who is the best athletes selected from the NOCC in Cambodia, he said, adding that the purpose of participation is to compete with other participating countries in order to gain honor for the Kingdom of Cambodia. “We are pleased to send our athletes to participate in the Asian Youth Games. We hope that within this participation, our athletes will try their best to win more meda...