A Study Visit at Hong Bang University International in Vietnam

Souvenir of PSE for Hong Bang

A seven-day trip for a study visit in Vietnam started after voting day was over. It was an obligation for Cambodian people to elect the right political party to govern their territory. According to the memorandum of understanding between Pour Un Sourire d’Enfant, Non-Profit Organization of Cambodia (PSE), and Hong Bang University International (HBU) in Vietnam, the two parties agreed to have an exchange program. Therefore, the third generation and final year students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration of the Business School of PSE Institute had a course on Organizational Control taught by Dr. Nguyen Minh Tuan, a professor of Hong Bang University.

            

Organizational Control Course

Staying for a week, from the 4^th until the 11^th of June 2012, we departed from PSE Institute in the early morning and travelled for 6 hours in the Mekong Express Bus, and we also went across three provinces in Cambodia – Kandal, Preyveng, Svayreang, and one province in Vietnam – Tai Ninh. We arrived there in the afternoon around 4:30 pm, and we had seen so many things along the journey. When the bus stopped in front of Hong Bang University, we were all greeted with a warm welcome by the delegate there, named Nguyen Chao Chi, bringing us to the comfortable room in the dormitory of the university.

Visit at Dong Nai Custom

Visit at Dong Nai Custom

For the course – organizational control – we learnt, we got a deeper image in our mind about it, and we found it interesting to learn for our five-day course. We, therefore, understood the advantage of having a manageable control system, a paramount part in management functions, which is applied in various business sectors in today’s market; however, to have a better control system, we need to have some practical and observational knowledge to understand what the key variables that can have a greater impact on our business are, and where those key variables are from. Hopefully, being a good manager, we need to balance our control system not to use too much tight control and lose control. The more we can balance, the better the result we can achieve.

Dancing Show by Vietnam Students

Ken Dancing Show by PSE Student

However, even if we learnt a lot from this course, there were also some troubles we encountered during studying, too. Because of language, culture, handouts preparation, and noisy environment, we had some difficulties to catch up the lesson; otherwise, we still persisted and paid much attention to the lecture. As mentioned about practical and observational knowledge, we were all brought to visit two places in a special economic zone in Vietnam – Thanh Thanh, a ceramic manufacture, and an official custom department in Dong Nai province, which is situated close to Ho Chi Minh City, about 20 kilometers away.

Ken Dancing Show Students

Dancing Show by Laos Students

As a result, we could compare how different it was between the theories we had been taught vis-à-vis the real practical work in the manufacturing chain and the custom department, so that we were able to learn even more with the real situation to reflect to the theories. Before leaving, HBU International had arranged a cultural exchange program for PSE students, and there were so many performances showed by the students coming from several South-East Asia Countries – Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and also Japan – to show their own culture to each other.

Visit at Dam Sen Park in Ho Chi Minh City

Thanks to PSE Institute and Hong Bang University for organizing such a valuable program for the students to improve their know-how and insight of the theories while seeing the real practical knowledge to improve our eyesight of the differences between the two countries. Also, thanks to our first generation of PSE Institute majoring in Tourism in Vietnam who always intervened in our daily life while being there.

Written By: Mr. Phoeun Sokphan

Last year Sales and Marketing Student

Visit to rubber plantation

      Report from Miss. Sreyna BBA3-B. She said that, on February 18th 2012, Mr. Lim Rithy, manager of Business School, arranged a visit for BBA₂ and BBA₃ to Chub rubber plantation in Kompong Cham province. All the students left from PSE at 7:30 am with several teachers of Business school like Mr. Lim Rithy, Mr.Tuy Sopheak, Miss Socheat, Miss Channa and Miss Eléonore.

Sreyna said that she arrived  there at 11:40 am. She saw the factory. It was the first time that she could enjoy this visit and she was very surprised that there were a lot of different modern machines. She noticed that the production process generated a bad smell.

She also mentioned that it was difficult to collect information from the production manager inside the factory. But she tried to collect all the information that he provided to her. She was able to know about the history of the rubber plantation, the level of rubber export and import, the production process, etc. There are four kinds of products: the first one is CSRL, the second is CSR 5, the third CSR10 and the last one is Logran.

After, she went to the  rubber farm. She couldn’t believe when she saw growing rubber trees in line and she imagined it would be comfortable to sleep or eat something under the rubber trees with her friends. Especially, she was able to know how to make a rubber tree nursery. Rubber tree can provide rubber for a long period of time. Collecting rubber on a tree is possible for 6 years.

There are a lot of advantages for planting rubber tree from the government. And people in Cambodia like furniture. The most important is that they can export abroad to Asian countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and China. Before it was controlled by the government but now it became private companies like Chub, Kreang, Maimut, Snoul, Peapchank, Beung Thaon and Phum Dong.         

     "I am very happy for visiting a rubber plantation because I was able to get a lot of knowledge from it. Also, I was able to become clear about this topic, as before I never knew anything related to it. And for suggestion, I would like PSE to continue to have this program in order to make the next generations of students know about this." SreyNa said.

Prepared by: Uy Sokunthy, Nget Socheat and Yim Dy (BBA2-B)

                                          Economic Today Magazine 

         In marketing class we always do a lot of projects that require going different place, different time and different option of students depend on group and obligation .One of these subjects, we have one subject that came from Economic Today Magazine.

         On January, 14th 2012 we went to do a poll that require us to interview people face to face. The purpose of interview wants to know how people think about price of gasoline and satisfaction of them on gasoline. Before we went to interview, we divide 5 group and one group 4 people. We went different place such as: River side, Derm Kor market,Orussey market, Olympic market, and Chbar Om Pov market. We went to interview 12 questions per person and one group we have 40 questionnaires.

         For my group went to Orussey market to interview different people. I went with my friends they are Monika, Sophan, and one absent is Dara so we have to divide work to do more. We went to Orussey at 2 pm on Saturday afternoon and work until 4:30 pm than came back PSE. During we interview, some people busy with work they don’t have time to be interviewed. Some people allow us to interview but some I can interview just half of questions because they have work to do immediately. I met different kind of people and work but almost of them are Moto Dup driver because there are a lot of Moto Dup at Orussy Market. In the end we have finished our interview successfully and come back PSE by happily. The benefit of this subject is that we can advertise Charity Party Program in Economic Today Magazine

free because we exchange it by do market survey for them.

          I think this project is very good for us to get a lot of experiences and know a lot of people especially, I can know how to communicate with different people. Once more thing, I can adapt myself to solve problem immediately with their anger because most of them don’t like the price of gasoline nowadays. I think, I can improve my work because now we are not yet to finish it. It just the first step.

Rim vamva

        

BBA2A visited Phomen Khmer Tour Agency Company

On 18/02/2012 Mr. Lim Rithy manager of Business School arrange a visited for BBA2A to Phomen Khmer Tour Agency Company.

            At. 2:30, all the student have prepared them self already for their visited and jump on the bus. They arrived to Phomen Khmer Company at 3:00.

            This Company provide many tour service like:

•  World wide Air Ticketing Reservation
• In/Out bound Tour Arrangement
• Worldwide Hotel Reservation
• All Transportation Rental (Car, Van, Bus, Helicopter, Boat)
• Visa Service (Khmer & Foreigner
• Visa Extension
• File Arrangement For:
• Living Abroad
• Trip Abroad
• Domestic bus ticket Reservation
• Travel Insurance Service
• Office Translation Service
• Postage & Shipping
• Arrange express E-Visa(Visa online)
• Cooking Class
             This visited provide all the student many advantages because all the student can get many work experience and work process from all the professional staffs like them. And we can aware of process of making a passport and visa, aware of how to work & Documents management for traveling to abroad.

                    For me I feel very glad and interesting with this study visited because I can improved my knowledge and my work experience, Mrs. Ouch Darya said. 


Prepared by Soung Reaksmey
                    Em Ratana
                    Hok Sanlong 

BSCAC Presentation

             One program that comes from business school student it was present by Mr. Phoeun Sokphan class BBA3B and help by five student from BBA3 and first 3D student such as Miss. Pheoun Sokleng, Mr. Phoeun Lypheng, Miss. Soung Sephan, Miss. Sim Visal, Mr. Phay Seyha Miss. Seng Phalla on February 22, 2012. This program is call Business School Students’ Cooperation Affairs Center, an up-and-coming center, is aimed at stimulating, sharing, supporting and consulting with students to go forward to reach the qualified standard of learning. Therefore, according to the student in business school increase, and also we see the some problem of student in Class BBA3 lack of some ability and knowledge not bereave enough. That why BSCAC was founded by the third generation students of BBA program in January 17, 2012.

              BSCAC group is work on the break time from 12-2 pm but they are not chose the volunteer yet and the offices of them are located in M15. The activity of BSCAC group is can edit the writing of the student if they can, but if their ability of them if not enough they will send it to the teacher to edit it. Press preview it Mean you read some new and summarize fifteen minutes (this program is create when you have time to share with us). Moreover if you interesting in presentation you can send it to BSCAC every month we will help any problem and you can also can understand how use a slide presentation, how to speak it in public. However we will provide you a consulting every day from 5-6 pm.
The objectives of BSCAC that want to create this program are:

Explain why we need BSCA
Depict the vision, mission, and goals of BSCAC.
Describe core values and activities of BSCAC.
Present the management structure of BSCAC.
Explain how we all get benefit from BSCAC.



                 One more things Vision and Mission of BSCAC is “We believe that the potential quality development of students depends primarily on self-awareness and art of sharing”. “With the philosophy of our vision, our team spirit and leadership play an important role in facilitating and organizing virtual, vital and educational programs and events for students to share their ideas in the optimal envision to their community and society”.
In another hand the goals of BSCAC are:
•    Build up more rapports between students and more networks.
•    Bring the students to reach the clues of effective learning.
•    Help the lower understanding students to get better mindset.
•    Share the know-how to all students in PSE Institute.
•    Usher students to understand and practice the art of sharing.
•    Provide them with the stepping-stone to reach the key sectors in their life.
•    Bring the right and appreciable equality of understanding to all students.
Provide them with the motivation to benefit to the community and society

           In sum up they created BSCAC program in order to help the entire student in Business to increase their ability by sharing knowledge, experience, and idea and help each other. Mr. Sophan Said that “he hope when we can get some knowledge, experience, idea and more than that we can share it to next generation in order to improve them to have brighter future.”

 Written by: Nourn Sophy BBA2B
Edit by: Hun Sophea BBA2B
Interview by: Pann Navy BBA2B
Source of information form : Mr. Pheoun Sophan BBA3B

CRA Competitions 2011 (Cam food)

First, I’m very proud on myself that I have a chance to  join this event on Oct 20, 2011 - Oct 21, 2011 in SOFITEL PHNOM PENH PHOKEETHRA  this event create by the CRA (Cambodia Restaurant Association) it mean that all the restaurant in Cambodia join together and create this event.

CRA

Next, I would like to tell you about the information before the event on Oct 19, 2011 class BBA2B and class TH2B sale and marketing class in PSE came to help this event with the organizer also Teacher Tuy Sopheak came with us. One more things before the event we do a lot of work with the organizer and we can know everything’s before we do a work. On Oct 20, 2011  -  Oct 21, 2011 the organizer divide the 6 joy for us to do like, Bartender, Fruit Carving, Khmer mystery box, Registration, and Barista. In this event we can see many things like the ways how competitors do in this event. In other hands the teacher in PSE likes Mr. La Vibol, Mr. Touch Leang came to this event and have a lot of student from PSE came to join and see the way how competitors do a work. In the event time the student that responsible for the Bartender they have 5 member in this group, and they do as a Service order Prepare the win to order Clean the table, cup and flat Bring the win for competitor, Give the water to competitor, Make sure nobody interrupt the competitor ,Control all every things in the store . Moreover student that responsible for fruit carving they have 6 members they do some work like; prepare the store before competition, don not let everybody talk to competitors, Control the store, Make the store be quite, Prepare the table and chair for committee, Translate English to Khmer for competitor, Bring the fruit to display on the table, Take care about fruit no need to lost and all the student do similar job. In other hand student that responsible for Khmer mystery box they have 6 members do some work like; Service order ,Help Judge with the program ,Help competitor and give some material for the ,Look after the competitor ,Prepare some place ,Control the cooker  ,Help them to take the blow and clean some blow ,Give food to the Judge to taste. In other hand student that responsible for Registration they have 6 members do some work like; Welcome to guest , Register the name telephone and e-mail, Look after the gust, Register the competitor , Help other task that they need. However student that responsible for Barista they have 4members do some work like; Collect all cup ,Clean the cup ,Look after the gust ,Help Judge, Give coffee to the Judge. In this event it very wonder full event all student can catch the main important things from it. Especially the competitor try to do their work by hard like cooking, prepare the bad,and more things that related to the hotel can make all student in PSE know clearly about the ways how to do in hotel like they competitor do in this event.  

           

        In my conclusion I can see many people do different ways to do their job they do as a professional people in this event, they came from different restaurant and competed together to find the winner, one more things student in PSE can get experience from this event, I’m very happy that I have a chance to join this event I can get many knowledge and many experience from this event, I just have small problem form this work, but my team happy to join this event again.  

Nourn Sophy 
BBA2B

Entertainment Club

      Last year, on Friday-28-Dec-2011, in Pour Un Sourire d’Enfant institute there was one action that related to cleaning day, but after the cleaning day the Director of PSE Institute had a meeting with the entire students in the campus at 4 o’clock and then he gave a feedback and some comments that related to our action.  
     After that, he talked about his announcement that related to the cleaning day: Before the cleaning day happened one time per month, but starting from now on, it will happen one time every two months. Every other month will be dedicated to the Entertainment Club, every other month to the Cleaning Day.

     First, he said that before we created this activity, we needed all students to join together to make this club a success. Why we created it? Because we want all the students to have time to relax from their studies, and enjoy together. One more thing, we don’t want our students to have stress in their brain and to reduce their stress from their brain also. Then, he wanted the students who had objective to join to go to register their name with the teacher in charge before Mon-09-Jan-2012 and at 12:00 PM was the expiry date. And each class should vote for one person that they think would have abilities to be a leader in the class. The chosen leader would be responsible for the whole class. And, after that, the leaders went to join a meeting with the Director of PSE Institute to discourse about the Entertainment Club.

     Finally, he wished all students in PSE would have a chance to join in the international day and happy New Year day but should be carefully with traveling, because now the traffic generates more accidents that can kill people in 1 minute if they are not careful with their traveling.


 Written by Mr. Yim Dy