CSAN announces champions in CSAN Badminton Competition 2008
November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments
Badminton Competition is the second sport event, after Bowling Championship first held in 2007, newly initiated by CSAN Committee 2008. The competition is aiming at promoting sport activities, especially the most played badminton in Nagoya, and fostering friendship among players.
The only requirement for the contestants to get into the game was Cambodian national, not restricted to only students in Nagoya. Contestants could register in two categories - Double Men (November 4) and Double Mix (November 18). All the pairs met only once, while the two pairs who got the top set scores in the first round (calculated by 1 and 0 for a win and a loss, respectively) met again to challenge the Gold Medal. Below is the result of CSAN Badminton Competition 2008 officially announced by CSAN Committee.
Double MenGold Medalists: Mr. Y Samphy & Mr. SUN Chhun HiengSilver Medalists: Mr. SONG Kosal & Mr. UNG SeihaBronze Medalists: Mr. KIM Veara & Mr. SAMRETH Mummourn
Double MixGold Medalists: Mr. SONG Kosal & Miss SOK LimSilver Medalists: Mr. Y Samphy & Miss NGIM SokrachanyBronze Medalists: Mr. SUN Chhun Hieng & Miss CHAN Sokyeng
Academic Talk resumes after a 6-month break
October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Academic Talk is one of the academic activities initiated by some senior CSAN members. The main objective of the Talk is to offer a chance to those who wish to present their papers, readings, etc. under an informal atmosphere. The Talk is currently moderated by Ms LY Sopheap, a Doctoral Student at Graduate School of Law. Due to tight school schedule and the scarce availability of presenters, Academic Talk has been inactive for over 6 months since its previous session in March.
Upon invitation and availability, Mr HUOT Chanthy, a visiting researcher to the Agricultural Department of Nagoya University, agreed to talk at Academic Talk on Wednesday, 29 October, 2008, at Graduate School of International Development (GSID). The topic of the Talk was about “Agro-Processing Promotion in Rural Areas of Cambodia”, in which Mr HUOT Chanthy gave a comprehensive introduction to the agricultural sector in Cambodia, followed by some issues relating to Agro-industry. More specifically, he talked about two case studies conducted in Treang and Tramkok districts, Takeo Province, parts of a 3-year project schemed by the International Cooperation Center for Agricultural Education (ICCAE) and Royal University of Agriculture (RUA). The main theme of the project is the survey of income structure of Sraa-sar (rice wine) producing farmers and quality improvement experiement on using different yeasts and rice varieties as inputs, improving distillation system and labelling and bottling. The project is to be completed in 2011.
In Cambodia, Mr HUOT Chanthy is a lecturer at the Royal University of Agriculture (RUA) and has been involved in several researches concerning agricultural products improvement. In Nagoya, Mr HUOT Chanthy is doing a short-term research under the topic mentioned above.
Nagoya University celebrates the 4th Homecoming Day
October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Homecoming Day is an annual event of Nagoya University. Every year, school alumni are invited back to school for a reunion. They are asked to attend the Alumni Association General Meeting and various events offered by the University. The 4th Homecoming Day fell on October 18 this year, and Mr TEP Vichet, a former LLM student of Graduate School of Law (GSL), was invited to join the party as a representative of Cambodia. Mr TEP Vichet graduated from GSL in 2006 and is currently working for Leopard Capital in Cambodia.
At the Homecoming Day Party held by GSL at the Education Center for International Students (ECIS), representatives from 6 countries, namely Cambodia, China, Laos, Mongolia, Ubekistan and Vietnam, were well received by various kinds of food and performances prepared by foreign students at Nagoya University. There, Cambodian students cooked Kary Nom Banh Chok (curry with noodle) and Cha-Huoy (jelly) and performed Robamm Sovann Machha (Monkey King and Mermaid Dance), while other foreign students had their own specialty and performances.
CSAN’s welcome party, fall 2008
October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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.

