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HAM Samnang

LEGAL ASSISTANCE & INTERPRETER

Contact Information

Tel: Office: (+855) 23 883 885
H/P: 012 241 247
Fax: (+855) 23 883 885

Email

info@skpcambodia.com

Educations

Royal Univeristy of Phnom Penh.

12 October 1987-26 September 1990

Bachelor degree in Mathematics.

Professional Experiences

• Preparing legal documents (briefs, motions, contracts, agreements, etc.) • Conducting legal research • Managing case files • Filing documents with the court • Scheduling appointments and meetings • Communicating with clients and other parties • Translating documents from English to Khmer and vice vera • Interpreting for clients if required.
• Translating various documents including legal documents relating to court procedures (submissions, motions, responses, Amicus Curiae briefs, etc.), Khmer Rouge confessions, Khmer Rouge telegrams/directives, Written Records of Witness Interviews, etc. • Interpreting (consecutive and simultaneous) in court hearings and in various meetings/workshops such as judges’ meeting, meeting of Judicial Administrative Committee (JAC), Civil Party Lawyers’ meeting, etc. • Facilitating, assisting and interpreting for the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges (OCIJ) in interviews of Khmer Rouge witnesses in various places throughout Cambodia (UN Index No. 917359)
• Translating documents, newsletters, books, articles of various subjects concerning human rights, education, law, social, health, economic and cultural matters and etc. from English to Khmer and vice versa. • Providing simultaneous translation on various issues concerning human rights, education, law, social, health, economic and cultural matters from English to Khmer and vice versa.
• Preparing surveyor team for the socio-economic survey of the project affected people both the relocated and set-back people • Designing plan and schedule for the survey • Providing training to surveyors • Coordinating and facilitating the surveyor team • Public relations by coordinating with government’s concerned establishments, and commune and village officials as well as with JICA’s experts to set up meeting • Writing reports
• Assisting Executive Director as required • Serving as a member of the core research team • Writing proposals and reports including Annual Report • Attending meetings in and outside the country • Assisting in public relations • Participating in developing agenda and work plan for training workshops, seminars, conferences, etc. • Participating in the training program as lecturer or trainer • Providing assistance and advice with regard to various research and program activities • Interpreting from Khmer to English and vice versa (simultaneous and executive translation) for training workshops, seminars, or conferences • Coordinating the Toshu Fukami Center for Japanese Studies and Management
• Collecting data and related document and information • Arranging interviews and appointments with relevant stakeholders • Field survey and interview with relevant stakeholders and project affected people • Analyzing collected data and obtained document and information • Participating in the preparation of the Stakeholders’ meeting and writing report • Developing work plan and agenda for the project • Interpreting in stakeholders’ meetings from English to Khmer and vice versa • Translating final reports from English to Khmer and vice versa and posting them on website
• Checking Khmer-language newspapers and magazines for information • Monitoring Khmer Rouge radio, government-run radio/TV • Translating important radio/TV broadcasting news, press release, and other documents provided to the newspaper for news publication such as speeches by the Prime Minister • Reporting and facilitating the expatriates with their Khmer communication or Khmer cultural and historical context • Working closely with the assignment editor by checking fax machine before s/he arrives- to see if any faxes need translation; reporting to him/her about the researched news and • Participating in planning daily news coverage • Arranging interviews or set up appointments with government officials and other civil society organizations
• Assessing and analyzing the access of political parties and candidates to TV/Radio (assessing formatting and timing) • Monitoring of frequency of appearance of individual politicians on TV/Radio • Analyzing the content of newscasts on TV/Radio (biased, incomplete information or misinformation) • Analyzing the instances of racially or ethnically discriminatory or inciting language on TV/Radio.
• World wide ticketing • Tour programming • Price quotation • Hotel reservation • Visa arrangement • Filling • Handling fax
I taught mathematics at grades 11 and 12. I was also assigned to teach English to five grade-10 classes using English For Today Book I.
I taught English at various levels using various books and materials for teaching (i.e. Essential English; Let’s Learn English; Headway, etc. and newspapers (i.e. SPK bulletin, Bangkok Post, etc.)