The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has instructed secondary education institutions and the capital-provincial education departments to accelerate the selection process for the national outstanding student examinations, scheduled for June.
Officials from the Battambang branch of the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) call on parents, guardians and teachers to pay closer attention to protecting children from online sexual exploitation. Yan Udom, deputy head of the branch, issued the appeal during a March 24 presentation to more than 70 CRC youth and students at Net Yang High School in Battambang town.
In a bid to raise awareness about the history of S-21 and the crimes of the Khmer Rouge, back in 2014 the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum set up a mobile exhibition called Three-Colour Building that has travelled to public and private schools in the capital, provincial towns and rural parts of the provinces on its mission to educate schoolchildren.
Covid-19 may be scary, but it is not as frightening as another hidden danger that is killing more than 480,000 people every year, said Sim Srey Leap from Net Yang High School in Battambang province, who won the first prize in the “Measures to increase taxes on tobacco” public speaking contest.