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Monday, November 26, 2012


Why do people prefer to study in the USA?

International students study in the USA more than any other country, and for good reason. Whilst the world’s top institutions all reside in the USA, there are also more than 4,000 other world-class universities offering a top-notch education that can lead to career success.... Read More>>

Angelina joins Siem Reap rush

It's the start of high season in Siem Reap and tourists from all around the globe are heading for the temples. But somewhere among the Angkor Wat watchers is a visitor of a different sort: Hollywood’s Angelina Jolie.... Read More>>

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Angkorian Temple and Cambodia

Visit Angkorian temples and Cambodia, click here.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

School Buildings In Siemreap Cambodia
These schools and some others have been supported by ABOUTAsia Schools Organisation. 



Monday, November 5, 2012

These are Angkorian temple in Siemreap Cambodia... Click Here to see more picture.



Thursday, November 1, 2012


Vail Valley students heading to Cambodia

Group will spend two weeks in Asia helping orphanages

EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado — A trip to Cambodia so deeply affected Nina Ferzacca and Tabor Whitney they have to go back. ... Read More >>

Thursday, October 25, 2012

US, Cambodian Navies Kick Off CARAT 2012
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy and Royal Cambodian Navy commenced the 3rd annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Cambodia exercise Oct. 22, with an opening ceremony held at the Royal Cambodian Ream Navy Base.... Read More >>

Wednesday, October 10, 2012


What will you do for your parents during Pchum Ben?

What will you do for your parents during Pchum Ben? Will you give them something like new clothes, some money? If you want to know about what other people will do for their parents, click here.

Rich or poor, pagodas keep the faith

Driving from Camko City Roundabout to Somrong Andet Pagoda for about five kilometres, you will see a small road on the right hand side, where you will see two small wooden pillars standing and supporting a banner of the name of a pagoda... Read more >>

Cambodian Non-Profit Honors Teen Sibling Volunteers

For the last 35 years, The United Cambodian Community in Long Beach has helped mitigate immigrants’ struggles with cultural assimilation... Read more >>

Sunday, October 7, 2012


Boat racing back for Water Festival, PM says

Hundreds of thou­sands of Cambodians from across the country are expected to converge on Phnom Penh next month after Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that boat racing will return to the Tonle Sap river for this year’s Water Festival, which runs from November 27 to 29... Read more >> 

Buddhism: Cambodian way of life


In Cambodia, temples and monks can be seen everywhere. Buddhism is the dominant religion. One tradition is to send a boy to a temple to be a monk at the age of 13. From ancient times to the present day, temples have been the most important institutions ...Click Here to listen

Tuesday, September 25, 2012


Park Hyatt keeps sewing school alive

The newly refurbished Park Hyatt Siem Reap and Life and Hope Association Sewing School opened in Wat Damnak on  September 11.... Read more >>

After graduating, what kind of career do you want in agriculture?

“In the future, I want to work for an organisation or institute that’s related to my major. That way,... Read more >> 

Young Cambodians leave the countryside behind

Cambodia is a developing country that depends largely on agriculture and crops cultivate in the rural areas. Young people are a vital source of energy needed to help the sector grow... Read more >>

Wednesday, September 5, 2012


Ask the doctor: pets, worms and the dengue fever you don’t feel

I heard from a friend that it’s almost a certainty that everyone who stays in Cambodia for at least six months will get worms and should get it checked out. Is that true? What are the symptoms?.... Read more>>

Wednesday, August 29, 2012


The more you givethe more you receive

Before leaving for Cambodia to do voluntary workLi Kaiwen thought she was going to a poorcountry to offer her helpButthat was only half the story - she gained more from the experience than she ever imagined.... Read more >> 

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Children at Momeanh Primary School





















All primary schools in Cambodia have been closed from June, 20th to October, 1st. Some children stay at home helping their parents with house works, some go to rice fields and others do others activities. Some children who miss their school go back to school with their friends to play. They are Momeanh-Primary-School children above.

What I did this summer: Stanford medical student works to improve emergency care in Cambodia

One such project is an ongoing initiative in Cambodia to develop video-based education modules for the management of common emergency complaints.... Read more >> 

Wednesday, August 22, 2012


Cambodia, World Vision announce partnership to combat child sex in tourism

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Tourism Ministry and World Vision-Cambodia on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to forge partnership in combating sexual exploitation of children in tourism... Read more >> 

Monday, August 20, 2012


Cambodia: En Siev Eng builds a better life through education

En Siev Eng is one of six children. Her father is a taxi driver, and her mother grows vegetables for a living. Her parents were keen for their daughter to be able to complete her education successfully and not to end up illiterate.... Read more >>

Sunday, August 5, 2012


How are you preparing for the upcoming national exam?


Please ask this question yourselves.

Building student networks

Education is one of many pertinent factors which enables individuals to have a bright future. But education alone does not guarantee a “happily-ever-after” - it’s imported to engage in peer-supported networking to carry you through the ups and downs of studying and beginning your career.... Read more >>

Wednesday, August 1, 2012


Heather Graham - Heather Graham Sponsors Five Children In Cambodia

Actress Heather Graham sponsors five young children in Cambodia after she was inspired to act following an emotional trip to the country's impoverished capital.... Read more >> 

Thursday, July 26, 2012


Students Forced to Pay Bribes

Cambodian schoolchildren are being forced to pay bribes to pass high school admissions tests, a senior local  educator said on Thursday while calling on the country’s Ministry of Education to have students retake their most recent exams.... Read more >> 


Cambodia the focus of photo study


"I have returned to Cambodia each year since I originally volunteered at Helping Hands Cambodia, a non-government organisation," he said.... Read more >>

Tuesday, July 24, 2012


A Special Food In Cambodia

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Shrewsbury Student Brings Back Lessons From Cambodia
SHREWSBURY, Mass. — Jen Tylock hopes to be able to share what she learned this summer in Cambodia about human trafficking and the Khmer Rouge genocide with classmates at Shrewsbury High School....Read more >>  

Friday, July 20, 2012

Orchestra to tour Laos, Cambodia
HA NOI — Viet Nam National Symphony Orchestra will tour Laos and Cambodia next week, returning from its international tour with a concert in HCM City on August 1.... Read more >> 

Thursday, July 19, 2012


Cambodian youth given platform for empowerment

Meta House’s month-long Free Your Mind Festival will be putting its focus on Cambodia’s youth this weekend, with a side event titled “Long Way to Go” taking place on Sunday, July 22... read more >>

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Cambodia Shuts Schools To Stop EV71 Virus Spreading
Cambodia has closed schools weeks ahead of the summer holidays to prevent the spread of a virus that has killed dozens of children since April...Read more >>

Friday, July 13, 2012


Young Cambodians cut their lifelines for a wage

Tien Vireak was standing alone in the dark, sleepily holding his umbrella. As a security guard, his job is to stay awake when everyone else is sleeping.
He is only 24, but would be happy to take off his uniform and find a better job.... Read more >>

Cambodian self-published writer an artist in sci-fi novel and comics

New art forms keep emerging among the young generation of Cambodians - from creating tattoo and clothes designs to composing their own music... Read more >> 

Monday, July 2, 2012


4 Cambodian temples that aren't Angkor Wat

At the turn of the millennium, when Cambodia was still reeling from decades of civil war, one could spend hours walking around Angkor Wat Archaeological Park without seeing a single foreigner... Read more >>

Tuesday, June 26, 2012


International summer program launches

This summer, nearly 30 students from Cambodia, France and Laos will be giving up their holiday – and throwing off the slothful student stereotype – in order to attend the Université des Moussons, (the University of the Monsoons) in Phnom Penh.... Read more >> 

Monday, June 25, 2012


Cambodia’s first social work grads ready to take the reins

After witnessing his fellow Cambodians endure poverty, child exploitation, domestic violence and discrimination for years, 24-year-old Hour Chhaileng wasn’t going to let each day pass without doing something about it....  Read more >> 
Over 1.5 mln foreign tourists visit Cambodia in first 5 months
PHNOM PENH, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has attracted over 1.5 million international visitors in the first five months of 2012, up 26 percent compared with the same period last year, the statistics released by the tourism ministry showed Monday... Read more >> 

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Researcher keeps watch on Cambodia's Angkor Wat for half a century

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/23/4584324/researcher-keeps-watch-on-cambodias.html#storylink=cpy


For half a century, Yoshiaki Ishizawa, a former president of Sophia University, has studied and worked to preserve the World Heritage Site of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.... Read more >> 

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/23/4584324/researcher-keeps-watch-on-cambodias.html#storylink=cpy

Thursday, June 21, 2012


Cambodia's Orphanage Business

Juliana Ruhfus investigated the growth of the global commercial volunteering industry and found volunteers' hopes exploited and Cambodian children needlessly placed in orphanages... Read more >> 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012


Failure to diagnose: Health care on the brink of death

In Cambodian folklore, the shaman is a being able to save human lives from sickness and disease with his magic. Today, many Cambodians look to doctors as modern shaman – with little regard for doctors’ human limitations, sick men and women expect miracle cures... Read More >> 
Korean Education Fair
South Korea is a country booming with excitement for young Cambodians, as K-pop music, fashion styles and movies saturate the Kingdom’s youth culture... Read more >>

Tuesday, June 19, 2012


Using Art to Fight Human Smuggling

A Cambodian man wins a U.S. award for raising awareness of human trafficking in Southeast Asia... Read more >> 

Less Power for Cambodian Women, Report Says

Cambodian women have fewer opportunities than men, and less access to economic and political positions of power, a World Bank report says.... Read more >> 

Monday, June 18, 2012


Is education a turn-off in today’s Cambodia?

Despite Cambodia’s evolving gender system, local men would rather pick women with lower education qualifications as their love mates. As a result of this finicky selection, it seems many bright young ladies are left with a diminishing list of suitors.... Read more >> 

Tuesday, June 12, 2012


Constructive Cambodian: Is our national anthem striking a bad chord?

Our Kingdom’s flag is considered the heart and soul of the nation, but recently, why are young Cambodians expressing a sense of shame when asked to sing our national anthem?... Read more >>

Saving the seven symbols

An alarming amount of young Cambodians have no idea know what our national symbols are, a shocking surprise given their knee-jerk reactions when responding affirmatively to being nationalists.... Read more >> 

Cambodia observes World Day Against Child Labor with photos, music

    Phnom Penh (Cambodia), June 12 (Xinhua-ANI): Cambodia on Tuesday observed the 11th World Day Against Child Labor with photo exhibition and children music festival... Read more >> 

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Cambodia attracts 1.27 mln foreign visitors in first 4 months
PHNOM PENH, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has received 1.27 million international tourists in the first four months of this year, a 27 percent increase from the same period last year, statistics of the Tourism Ministry showed Wednesday.... Read more >>

Tuesday, May 29, 2012


BuckHunger food charity facing the knife

An independent project which seeks to provide free food to Cambodian children every day, many of whom live on the streets, is in danger of starving itself out.... read more >>

The Young Library: Horrific real life of young man in Cambodia

Never Fall DownPatricia McCormick HarperCollins, $18, 219 pages, ages 14 and up During this past decade young adult readers have gone wild for dystopian fiction like "The Hunger Games." Now Patricia McCormick gives them a chance to read a tale of real horror... Read more >> 

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/29/4520594/the-young-library-horrific-real.html#storylink=cpy


Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/29/4520594/the-young-library-horrific-real.html#storylink=cpy

Sunday, May 27, 2012


Huntsville, AL -- The United Nations defines human trafficking as the "act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them."…. Read more >>

Thursday, May 24, 2012


Mao Sirun: Child and education advocate

"I used to be poor, so I know how poor people feel and I understand the situation,” said 28-year-old Mao Sirun, who works hard to erase illiteracy and improve education in Sihanouk province’s rural areas.... Read more >>

Community Cambodia: Youth shake up the NGO model

When we look back over the past decade, the brunt of community service and social action was carried out by NGOs and government initiatives. But within the past few years, young Cambodians are turning to community service on their own, in an increasing trend, forming groups that look to develop remote areas, teach underprivileged children, and improve the environment...... Read more >> 

Education & the income gap

I only have fate to blame,” said Som Sopheaktra, a young factory worker in an iron workshop. “If I had money and a family like other people, I would have tried to study hard and find a good job without letting myself fall into this kind of difficulty.”.... Read more >>

Monday, May 21, 2012


Stawell secondary students embrace Cambodia offer

STAWELL - Students at Stawell Secondary College have embraced the school's offer of a Schoolies alternative which will see a group travel to Cambodia early next year for humanitarian work.... Read more >>

Tuesday, May 15, 2012


Sa Sa Bassac opens Reamker exhibition

Talking apart the mythical beings from ancient tales and depicting them in a modern-day context, a new exhibition at Sa Sa Bassac Gallery brings a fresh perspective to the diminishing art of Reamker painting, the Cambodian reinterpretation of the Hindu Ramayana epic poem.... Read more >> 

Cambodian parents use children to beg

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, May 15 (UPI) -- Cambodian parents are taking their young children across the border to Thailand to beg for as little as $1.60 a day, Thai authorities said.... Read more >>

Monday, May 14, 2012


LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Children in Cambodia a lesson for all

In the May 10 article "Vacation with a cause," the photo of schoolchildren before a meal in their Floating Learning Center in Cambodia is a lesson for us all in itself.... Read more >>

Sunday, May 13, 2012


Rochester, N.Y. – Just as impressive as the artwork displayed at an exhibit in Rochester Saturday was the story behind it.

The hands behind the paintings are those of Cambodian orphans.... Read more >> 

Thursday, May 10, 2012


Thailand's allure is strong in Srei Snam

Dry, parched ground – evidence of severe dry season drought – stretches for miles in Siem Reap’s Srei Snam district. In a couple of months, the rains will flood these fields. Both conditions make it equally impossible to produce a good harvest. .... Read more >>

Students Set To Begin State Department Youth Leadership Program

Five Cambodian high school students and one teacher from Kampong Chhnang province have been selected to participate in the State Department’s Youth Leadership Program this year.... Read more >>

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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Monday, May 7, 2012


Global Heritage Fund report warns end of national treasure

The temple at Preah Vihear, one of Cambodia’s most-prized national treasures, is at such risk of severe and irreparable damage that it could vanish completely, preservation watchdog the Global Heritage Fund said over the weekend.... Read More >>

Thursday, May 3, 2012


Teaching the Cambodian genocide to a new generation (video)

On a recent evening, about three dozen Cambodians gathered in an auditorium at Long Beach City College for an event called, “Courage to Remember.” Through a translator, Vishsnanh Cragn told her story of how she survived the genocide.... Read more >>

Thursday, April 19, 2012


At the outskirts of Phnom Penh in Chom Chao commune, 21-year-old Sreang Veasna carefully brushes a coat of gold paint onto one of Cambodia’s most iconic spiritual structures: a spirit house – one of those temple-shaped shrines that adorn the fronts of houses and roadsides throughout the country. Read more >>

Wednesday, April 18, 2012


Coastal holidays tend to attract two types of people. There are those who want to while away their leisure time in fits of all-night drinking, dancing and decadence,…. Read more >>