CFAI opens an irregular session

September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Following its regular session 006 on July 27, Cambodian Forum for Academic Initiatives (CFAI) had an irregular session held on Saturday, September 27, 2008, at CALE Forum, ECIS Building, Nagoya University.

In the first part of the session, Mr ORN Pannha, an LLD holder from the Graduate School of Law, presented his doctoral dissertation, titled “Harmonizing the Administration of Industrial Justice in Cambodia”.

“… The distinction of individual and collective dispute defined in the Cambodian labor law prevents the individual disputes from being heard by the arbitration council. Accordingly, there would be an advantage in reviewing those articles of the labor law concerning dispute resolution. While the labor law leaves the court wide jurisdiction over the labor disputes as provided by Article 385, the arbitration council is limited to handle only collective disputes which the arbitral award finally needs recognition and enforcement from the court. The expectation of the counseling service that links to conciliation would give the disputing parties more trust and confidence in the system on one hand, while on the other the disputing parties could benefit from various methods of dispute settlements either from this service, the arbitration council or the court,” concluded Mr ORN Pannha as a summary submitted to CFAI committee.

In the second half of the session, Prof. ANG Choulean, an anthropoligist and a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, gave a lecture on the “Issue of Kui Ethnic Group in Cambodia”. Prof. ANG Choulean is currently a visiting scholar to Kyoto University. According to CFAI committee, he formerly worked with APSARA Authority and is well-known among Japanese scholars whose research interestes are in Khmer history and culture. The lecture was then followed by a discussion among the participants.

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CSAN’s graduation and farewell party

September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

On September 24, the Cambodian Students Association in Nagoya (CSAN) held a graduation and farewell party to congratulate and farewell three graduates who are leaving for Cambodia by the end of the month upon their academic achievement.

In one-year term, Mr CHAY Sokun, under Young Leader Program, got a Master of Science in Health Care and Administration from the Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University; Mr ORN Pannha and Ms ROS Bophanna, under Special Program of the Royal University of Law and Economics and Nagoya University’s Graduate School of Law, obtained an LLD and an LLM, respectively, from the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University.

At the party, there was an experience sharing session, in which participants, especially those in their last year of study, gained some tips handy for their academic and daily life.

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CSAN welcomes 5 Cambodians to Nagoya

September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

On August 31, 2008, five Cambodians, including staff and Japanese language students from Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center (CJCC) in Phnom Penh, arrived in Kota Town, Aichi Prefecture, on their two-week study tour in Japan. On the day, they were welcomed in a party, where six Cambodian students from Nagoya University performed coconut dance. The party as well as the schedule for the study tour was organized by Kota International Association (KIA).

Having visited Tokyo, Kyoto, Toyohashi, etc., the five Cambodian fellows were arranged by KIA and received by Prof. Okuda Saori, Foreign Student Adviser at Graduate School of Law/Nagoya University, to meet with some Cambodian students in Nagoya University on September 11 for an exchange in idea and experience. What inspires them most about Japan is the various scholarships availble to Cambodian students. Therefore, the 90-minute talk was mainly about scholarship application tips.

Nagoya was the last destination of their study tour. On the same day, they had to get back to the hotel in Kota Town and spent their last day there before departing for Cambodia on Spetember 13, 2008.

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Nakamura Kindergarten holds a discussion with Cambodian students in Nagoya

September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment

Eight Cambodian students were invited by Nakamura Kindergarten to discuss about education in Cambodia on 5 September 2008 at Nagoya International Hotel. Since Ms Utsunomiya, chief of Nakamura Kindergarten, would like to make a documentary about Cambodian children’s pre-school education after her visit to Cambodia three years ago, the main purpose of the discussion was merely to get to know Cambodian students’ perceptions on what aspects the program should be filmed in. Moreover, Ms Utsunomiya also expressed her intention in helping Cambodian children by some means which are not only mainly financial donation.

During the session, each students were asked to talk about what is personally perceived as good and bad points about Cambodia’s education, together with childhood experiences. In exchange, people from Nakamura and other two kindergartens, including school directors, teachers and nutritionist, briefly shared their working experiences and impression on Cambodia. This first-time meeting was believed to be a stepping stone for the collaboration between the schools and Cambodian students in contributing to assisting poor Cambodia children in their education.

As the next step, a food fair to introduce Cambodian food to Japanese kids and a bowling competition between Camboidan students and kindergarten teachers is taken into consideration and scheduled in October and November. Such kind of exchange would be a golden opportunity for deeper mutual understanding for further cooperation.

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Cambodian students meet at CFAI 006

July 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

Cambodia students in Nagoya held a Cambodian Forum for Academic Initiative (CFAI) Regular Session 006 on Sunday, July 27, 2008. CFAI is one of the academic activities of the Cambodian Students Association in Nagoya (CSAN), consisting of regular session held twice a year, and irregular session held as many times as necessary and administratively feasible to respond to the needs of the Cambodian intellectual community in Japan.

There were two presenters in this session. First, Mr. NGOV Penghuy of Graduate School of International Development (GSID) presented his journal published in the GSID’s Forum of International Development Studies (March, 2008) under a title: Governance, Foreign Direct Investment, and Economic Growth. Second, Ms. LY Sopheap of Graduate School of Law (GSL) presented part of her doctorate dissertation draft titled, Make Social Health Insurance Work in Cambodia: Market or Hierarchy?

Each presentation was followed by a Q & A session, and comments from the audience. It started from 3:00 pm and concluded successfully at 8:00 at GSID.

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