Graduation and farewell party held in Nagoya

March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment

The Cambodian Students Association in Nagoya (CSAN) held a graduation and farewell party for its member students who graduated and finished their program for the academic year 2007-2008.

The event took place on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 from 17: 00 to 22: 00 at the Graduate School of International Development (GSID), Nagoya University, with a packed and cheerful participation of the rest of the members and some of their relatives.

This year, 10 students from Aichi Prefecture—the city of which is known as Nagoya where CSAN? is based—graduated and finished their program. From GSID’s Nagoya University, there were three Master’s degree graduates: Mr. Duong Chantha, Mr.Heng Sophea and Mr.Nong Sovannak and three students finished their doctoral program: Mr. Kong Sam Onn, Mr. Ngov Peng Huy and Mr. Somreth Mammoun.

Two students, Mr. In Dara and Ms. Ngim Sorachany, had graduated from Graduate School of Law (GSL), Nagoya University. And two others were master’s graduates, Mr. Chim Samnang and Mr. Thai Heng, from Toyohashi Institute of Technology and Aichi University of Education respectively.

The party was meant to provide not only the opportunity for CSAN members to express their congratulations and say farewell to the graduates and their fellow students who had finished the program but also a forum for experience sharing and Q&A, in which the participants could learn from their seniors’ useful experience and ask questions about daily, as well as academic, life.

At 22: 00, the party officially ended with a joyful and memorable atmosphere.

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CSAN holds bowling contest

March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment

NAGOYA, Saturday, 8 March 2008, 8PM: CSAN Bowling Championship, Spring 2008, was held and organized by the Cambodian Students Association in Nagoya (CSAN) at Hoshigaoka Bowling Centre. The competition, which was initiated in 2007, is one of the association’s sports activities aiming at strengthening healthAll after the contest and friendship among not only its members in Nagoya but also all Cambodian students in Japan.

In this season, spring 2008, 24 contestants of Cambodian Students, 5 of whom are ladies, from Nagoya University and Toyohashi University of Technology registered for the competition which offered the prizes of a cup, a silver medal and a bronze medal for the fist, second and third male and female winner respectively, the prize for best team and the most strike male and female competitors.

The contestants, formed in a group of three and a team of 2 groups, play 3 games each in a lane organized by the CSAN committee members in charge of sport activities. As rule, a player with highest average score is rewarded the first, the second and the third in that order, so is the team. For the most strike prizes, no matter how many score they result, they will be rewarded if they get more strike than others.

The first male champion is Mr.Sun Chhunhieng, an LL.M student of Graduate School of Law (GSL), followed by Mr. Nguon Sethykun, a Master student of Graduate School of International Development (GSID), as the second and Mr. Duong Chantha, a Master student of GSID as the third. Then, the female champions are Ms. Seng Hun, an LL.D student of GSL ranked the first, Ms.Sok Lim, a Master student of GSID ranked the second, and Ms.Sambo Somphors, a LL.M student of GSL, the third.

The team, consisting of Mr. Kim Veara, a Master student of GSID, Mr. Son Kimsa, a Bachelor Student of Graduate School of Economics, and Mr. Sammreth Mammoun, a Ph.D student of GSID, Mr. Sun Chhunhieng, Ms. Seng Hun and Dr. Kuong Teilee, an Associate Professor at CALE of Nagoya University, won the best team prize.

Mr. Ya Som Ol, a Ph.D student of Graduate school of Engineering, and again Ms. Seng Hun won the prize of player with most strikes.

After the scores were released and all prizes were rewarded, the contestants together with the cheer leading audience joint the photo taking session.

The competition ended at 11:30pm. They all were so happy and looking forwards to participating in other coming CSAN’s sports events.

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Thesis paper for economics students

February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment

Inflationary Wage Increase under Currency Substitution is a thesis paper written in English in 2006 by a Cambodian student at Japan’s Nagoya University for his undergraduate thesis paper.

HENG Dyna asked to have it uploaded to our website in a hope that it will be of service to other Cambodian economics students and that he can get useful comments for further research.

The abstract of the paper reads as follows:

This paper studies the effects of an inflationary wage increase for government staffs on the welfare of their own and private employees, and social welfare, with cash-in-advance constraints under currency substitution in an overlapping generation model. We show that there exists a Laffer curve relationship of seigniorage to finance such an inflationary wage increase in the long run. The inflationary wage increase has a negative effect on the welfare level of private employees, but has an ambiguous effect on that of government staffs and social welfare.

Click HERE to download the paper!

You can also download other papers written by Cambodian students who have graduated from Nagoya, Japan from our “Download” page at http://nagoya.csaj-khmer.org/downloads

Dyna, who got his bachelor degree in Economics from Nagoya University in 2007, served as the first CSAN president when it was established in 2003. He is now doing his masters degree at Tokyo-based Hitotsubashi University, one of the most prestigious economics school in Japan. Also, he was elected president of the Cambodian Students Association in Japan (CSAJ) for the 2008 term. What’s more, he won the Prize of Excellence from JFTC Essay Competition 2007.

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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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