PHNOM PENH, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen urged all the students to love themselves and their parents, as well as distance themselves from drug-related chemical materials, official news agency AKP reported on Thursday.
The premier made the remarks in a message sent to the students across the country on the new school-year 2009-2010 starting today.
On behalf of the royal government, he said, he was pleased with the countrymen, teachers, educational staff and students to celebrate the new school-year 2009-2010 in the whole country.
However, he said, the challenge faced by the education field in the country is the balance between the strengthening of the quality and the widening of the quantity.
In order to get to the planning of the national education in 2015 and the planning of educational strategy, and respond to the implementation of the child rights, Hun Sen said, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports should pay not only attention to implicating Article 68 of the Cambodian Constitution and educational law, but also motivated the local and international communities to join the development of education in the country.
The premier said for the new academic year, the royal government will made a further effort to implement the child rights to draw the parties involved, mainly students' parents to form a studying environment in a comfortable way.
In his message, he also raised a Teacher Day to be held on Oct.5, asking students to adhere to the gratitude to those who educated them, which is a good tradition for a long time.
