Courtesy of SatreyKhmerOnline
These days Vichara Chhy spends her time studying for her exams at Murdoch University in Western Australia and chatting with friends, like any other student. In fact, though, she is a remarkable young woman and, at only 22, a true citizen of the world already.
By Sandra Wilson
Source: CampusAsia
Born and brought up in Cambodia, one of the world’s poorest countries, she has already won a Cambodian government scholarship to study in Japan, studied English at the University of California at Berkeley, been selected for a Japanese university exchange program to study for a year at Murdoch University, and won selection to attend international youth congresses in Glasgow in June and in Quebec in August 2008.
Vichara is full of ideals. Most of all, she wants to do something to help the recovery of her country. Cambodia still suffers the lingering effects of the disastrous Khmer Rouge period of the 1970s, in which perhaps one-third of the population died and a great deal of infrastructure was destroyed.
More damage was done even after the overthrow of Pol Pot, during the Vietnamese occupation and the long civil war that followed. Indeed, it is almost impossible to find anyone in Cambodia who is still not affected by those terrible years, and in many ways the country remains in shock.
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It is wonderful to see many of the young generation has won scholarship to pursue further education abroad. My sincere congratualtion go to them all in particularly those young girls now are leading the way comparing to the opposite sex.
Just posted a blog "Post Eelection: Stand-off & Dateh-lock.
This [stand-off & death-lock] is not the first or the last time that Cambodia is facing, in fact it would be an imminent issue and obstacle for Cambodian politicians from all sides if there was not any "Political Will".
Conclusion:
Even if a government were to go ahead, Sam Rainsy said his party, which won as
many as 27 seats Sunday, would maintain a strong opposition voice in the National Assembly."There is enough voice to pressure the government to do a better job
Click here for original and full story "We will go to the seat and serve the interests of voters by not giving up all the results we received, even though it was fraudulent."
Based on the above comment, I do beleive that Mr. Sam Rainsy does have a political wills to resolve the death-lock. It is a matter of when and how Mr. Sam Rainsy wants to commit it.
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