Vietnam, Cambodia cooperate in training signal officers
Cambodian Defence Attaché in Vietnam Major General Leang Sovannara on March 6 visited the Telecommunications University (TCU) (Signal Officers Training College) in Nha Trang city, south-central province of Khanh Hoa.
Vietnamese and Cambodian representatives at the meeting. (Photo: The Courtesy of the Telecommunications University)
Khanh Hoa (VNA) - Cambodian Defence Attachéin Vietnam Major General Leang Sovannara on March 6 visited the TelecommunicationsUniversity (TCU) (Signal Officers Training College) in Nha Trang city, south-centralprovince of Khanh Hoa.
TCU Vice Principal Nguyen Danh Khoa briefed the DefenceAttaché on the university’s training of Cambodian students, and pledged to raisethe quality of the work in the time ahead.
Sovannara thanked the Vietnamese side for itswhole-hearted support to the Royal Cambodian Army in training, information equipmentsupply, expert dispatch and technology transfer, greatly contributing to the developmentof the signal force of the Cambodian army.
The two sides compared notes on how to improve thequality of the training of Cambodian students.
The TCU has been tasked with providing training forsignal officers of the Vietnam People’s Army, and helping the Cambodian and Laoarmies in this regard, with hundreds of Cambodian officers having already graduatedfrom the school so far./.
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Vietnamese and Cambodian representatives at the meeting. (Photo: The Courtesy of the Telecommunications University) 
