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I was invited by my friends to join a group of tourists to visit Stueng Mean Chey, Phnom Penh city’s dump site. It was one of list item on the place to visit, so I joined them. The purpose of this visit is to deliver food, and basic medical care to people who live on the dump site. This is a routine trip for the organizer to the place. I’ve been told that the dump site has been closed, some how these people still live there.

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Today high school students throughout the country is facing the final challenge of general education. Although there are many grandaunt coming out from the proud Cambodia’s education system, the quality of education is another story.

It is weird that some students, instead of having a full nigh sleep prepared for a fresh morning of exam, the spend the nigh out looking for the questions and answers for the coming exam. I am not mentioning about copying each other during exam yet!

So when will thing getter better? if the education system continues to be like this?

Tags: Cambodia, Education, Exam, High School

Some of the photos from  University of Cambodia entertainment show 4th edition. It was the mixed event that combines fashion shows, singing, music performance and dancing. It was a sucessful event, but I have to say honestly that this event is handled unprofessionally.

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If you live in Phnom Penh, I am sure you experienced this, beggars on corner of the streets. A question of to give money to these beggars or not, is much of the personal preference. One can justify to give or not to give based on many reasons. For me, I do not give out money to these beggars for this reason: this little money cannot change anything, but to encourage more of them to beg.

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Tags: beggars, begging, Cambodia, Education, equal opportunity, ethic, moroal, phnom penh, Poverty

Have you ever wonder how many business schools or universities are there in Cambodia? How many student graduate from business school every year?

But! how diversify is business landscape of Cambodia?

So! does this prove that education in Cambodia is not effective? When you train all the people to do business, only few of them do, and most of them copy from each other.

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