Source: Xinhua| 2017-10-14 11:52:42|Editor: Zhou Xin

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PHNOM PENH, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Saturday met with 424 students who passed the 2017 high-school exit exam with Grade A, awarding each of them an iPad and 500 U.S. dollars.

At a get-together held at the Peace Palace, the prime minister encouraged them to pursue their study at universities, saying that they would be potential human resources for national development in the future.

Meanwhile, Hun Sen said peace and political stability were the major factors that enabled them to get education and called on the people to continue joining him in protecting the country's peace.

"With peace, children and youths have a lot of opportunities to get education," he said.

Cambodia held the annual high-school graduation exam in August with a total of 99,728 exam-takers. As a result, 63,668 applicants, or 63.84 percent, of them passed the test with 424 gaining Grade A.

The top-scored graduates are 213 males and 211 females.

The Southeast Asian nation has started to strengthen high-school quality since 2014 through cleaning up cheat and bribery during the grade 12 national exam.