CSAN partied with Rainbow Bridge

January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A Japanese association that has sent Japanese volunteers to Cambodia to help educate Cambodian children in rural areas invited Cambodian students to join a party January 26.

Rainbow Bridge initiated the informal event in order for Japanese students and workers interested in Cambodia and Cambodians interested in Japan, where they are staying, to exchange and learn from each other their national culture. Also, it was meant for the Cambodian students studying in Nagoya and the Japanese to make friends with each other.

The association invited 10 Cambodian students and about 10 Japanese joined. They all helped each other cook both Cambodian and Japanese dishes, ate together and took quiz about Cambodia prepared by the Cambodian side and that about Japan by the association.

At the end of the event, the association showed a video they made of them volunteering to educate children in Kompong Speu about health related problems and how to stay healthy.

Rainbow Bridge invites Cambodian students to events like that about once or twice every year.

It has its office in the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) back in Cambodia, according to Mr. Yamada, the president of the association.

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Cambodian students perform dance in Kota town

January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Cambodian Students Association in Nagoya (CSAN) has performed a traditional dance called Rorbamm Kuoss Tralauk (coconut dance) at an international exchange party in Kota town, Japan.

The event was organized by Kota International Association (KIA) at the Kota Town People’s Hall on January 20, 2008. It was also celebrated as the 15th anniversary of KIA, according to the speech by the President of the Association.

Six Cambodian students (ORN Panha, SAMBO Samphors, SUN Chhunhieng, SENG Hun, NOP Kanharith and CHAN Sokyeng) from Nagoya University were asked to perform the coconut dance. The dancers had spent a few hours almost every day two weeks before the party learning and rehearsing the dance on their own using the video cd they got from home.

They were not professional dancers. The idea was to exchange the Cambodian culture with the Japanese and the guests of other nationalities who were present at the party.

Video taken by Y Samphy, uploaded by SAMBO Samphors, one of the dancers

20 Cambodian students in total from Nagoya and other areas of Aichi prefecture attended the party. Several other nationals also joined the event, including those from Brazil, China, Vietnam, Argentina and Korea, announced the Master of Ceremony at the event.

HENG Molyaneth of Nagoya University Graduate School of International Development (GSID) was also invited to dress in Kimono, Japanese traditional dress, and appear on the stage together with such other nationals as Vietnamese, Chinese and Brazilian who were also dressed up in Kimono.

Kota was chosen as a partner with Cambodia in the World Expo 2005 held in Nagoya.

The town invites Cambodian students in Nagoya and other areas in Aichi prefecture through CSAN to take part in two or three events every year. Those other events include the Kota Town Day and Summer Festival.

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Cambodian Students Association in Japan (CSAJ) elects new president

January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment

Mr. Dyna HENG has been elected President of the Cambodian Students Association in Japan (CSAJ) for the 2008 mandate. The election result came on January 12, 2008.

Dyna is a graduate student of economics from Hitosubashi University’s Graduate School of Economics.

HENG Dyna, 2008 CSAJ president“I have a dream that CSAJ serves as a stimulating academic forum, a dynamic channel of cultural exchanges, and an active hub of networks among Cambodian students inside and outside Japan,” wrote the president in his policy statement, adding, “however, dreams without vision and passion can make me just a dreamer.” “It is this reason that I run for the presidency of CSAJ to materialize my action and passion toward that dream.”

The newly-elected president aims, in his policy paper, at achieving five major points: absorbing more charity fund to Cambodia especially from Japanese corporations, enhancing academic activism, promoting the learn-how-to-lead environment and strengthening Cambodian students’ network.

One of his initiatives includes essay contest in which high school students in Cambodia partake and three winners will be given a chance to visit Japan on a home stay program, according to his plan of operation.

His new committee also plans to establish an e-journal, Khmer Academic Review, which means for Cambodian students to express their ideas concerning their related fields of study and other current issues. The idea is to have it published twice per year.

CSAJ consists of four regional associations of Cambodian students across Japan: Cambodian Students Association in Nagoya (CSAN), Khmer Students Charity in Kansai, Cambodian Students Association in Kyushu and Cambodian Students Association in Kanto.

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