Wednesday, January 20, 2010
No opportunity for bright young Cambodians?
David Jonathan Gross
Nobel Laureate: Human Resource is the Major Problem Facing Cambodia
By Im Sothearith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
19 January 2010.
THE FACTS:
THE CPP IS NOT A POLITICAL PARTY , RATHER THE 120 000 VIETNAMESE TROOPS OF
INVASION OF CAMBODIA OF GENERAL VAN TIEN DUNG .
THIS IS THE MAN
Gen. Van Tien Dung WHO Led an INVASION OF CAMBODIA DECEMBER 25 ,1978.
Dec. 25, 1978 Invasion of Cambodia. Some 100,000 Vietnamese with 20,000 KUFNS
troops, under the direction of Gen. Van Tien Dung, launch an invasion of
Cambodia.
IT WAS CONDEMNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly
adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling
for a withdrawal of Vietnamese.
VIETNAM INVASION & OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA IS CONDEMNED:
Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia.
Still , Vietnam, has not respected the 10 UN resolutions, calling Vietnam to
cease her occupation of Cambodia and remove all her troops from the country.
US president Reagan calls Vietnam to restore Cambodia Independence .
President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General
Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988.
"Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose
freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and
independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops
...."
BURY
As other developing countries in the world, the major problem facing Cambodia
is the serious lack of human resources for the country’s development, according
to Professor David Jonathan Gross, a Nobel Laureate for Physics.
Prof. Gross said through his lecture and dialogue with some participants and
people he met, he observes that there are quite a lot of brilliant young people
in Cambodia, which will be important for Cambodia’s future development, but the
most important thing is whether they are given opportunity to develop their
skills.
“It’s a major problem - human resources,” Gross said in a phone interview with
VOA Khmer during his visit to Cambodia’s Siem Reap province. “I’ve met a lot of
very hopeful people. You know that’s the most important thing. People are very
optimistic about the future. Cambodia has a lot of great resources. I have a
lot of faith in young people, very brilliant young minds that could do great
things just given the opportunity. I have tried to tell them that they should
dream big. I have talked to people about giving young people opportunity.”
Prof. Gross is a Nobel Laureate for Physics in 2004. He has discovered and
explored the force that binds particles inside an atomic nucleus. This
phenomenon led to a whole new physical theory and enabled scientists to
complete the standard model of particle physics, which describes the
fundamental particles in nature, and how they interact with one another.
Gross said there are two kinds of human resources. While the majority of people
are just working forces, others have special talents and great minds, who make
great contributions to the country’s development. This kind of people should be
given special opportunity.
"And then, very gifted people, whose minds you really don’t want to waste and
who will contribute very important contributions to the society,’’ Prof. Gross
said. ‘’And it’s important to make sure you don’t lose those really special
people, and you give them opportunities. You will have to enable them to go
abroad. It’s also important to identify very brilliant people and give them
special opportunities because those people can make important contributions.”
Chek Chan Oeun, a physics lecturer at Royal University of Phnom Penh, who
participated in the Professor Gross’s lecture, said the lecture paves the way
for participants, especially for students to a broader scientific research and
open their minds to how science can help social development.
“Through this lecture, we have acquired some knowledge related to universe,
dark energy, dark materials, and the evolution of the universe,” Chek Chan Oeun
said. “In addition, it encourages students to find out what has been discovered
by scientists, what is still unknown, and what they are doing to help the
world.”
“In the future I want to be like him and discover new things to meet the needs
of the world,” said Sun Limhour, a 4th year student in physics department of
Royal University of Phnom Penh. “I have loved electronics since I was young. It
is a true science.”
The visit by Prof. David Jonathan Gross intends to strengthen the relationship
among nations in Southeast Asia and ASEAN with the rest of the world, according
to the organizer.
“It’s our aim really to build these bridges not only with Nobel laureates from
the United States or Europe and the societies here in Southeast Asia, but
between the societies in ASEAN to reach more cooperation on the level of
education because education as we think is basic for peace and that’s why we
are doing this program at the universities and at schools here in Cambodia and
also in other countries in the region,” said Morawetz, director of
International Peace Foundation.
Born in Washington, D.C., Professor David Jonathan Gross, received his
undergraduate degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1962 and then
continued his education at University of California, Berkley, from where he
received his Ph.D. in physics in 1966. He then served as a junior fellow at
Harvard University. Professor Gross is now a director and holder of the
Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics of the University of California in Santa Barbara and a
member of the Advisory Board of the Intentional Peace Foundation.
As part of the “Bridges” program by the International Peace Foundation, the
next Nobel Laureate who will pay a visit to Cambodia on January 20 is Professor
Eric Stark Maskin, a 2007 Nobel Laureate for Economics.
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