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- Making sandals from tires: The pensioner who refuses to quit
- Cambodia’s blockchain social media app rewards creativity
- Phom Penh’s burgeoning animation start up scene tackles Khmer classics
- Engineers in the making revive drone, setting an example for Khmer youth
- Cambodian animation racing towards world-class imagery
- Two pioneer brothers offering first airboat tour in Cambodia
- A new player enters Phnom Penh’s food delivery market
Making sandals from tires: The pensioner who refuses to quit
Durable shoes made from old car tyres became the distinctive style of the Khmer Rouge regime four decades ago. And still today this footwear, despite its tragic historical associations, continues to prove popular among Cambodia’s older
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Phom Penh’s burgeoning animation start up scene tackles Khmer classics
Publication date 06 March 2019 | 12:15 | ICTLead motion graphic designer Song Hem Kiry sits composing footage, frame by frame, in his office at burgeoning start-up Rounh Creative Studio.
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Engineers in the making revive drone, setting an example for Khmer youth
Publication date 27 February 2019 | 11:20 | ICTA team of 8th grade students successfully breathed new life into a completely broken drone, refurbishing it so that it was able to fly for over 20 minutes in recent exhibition at the First Air and Tech Show at the Royal Cambodian Ai
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Cambodia’s blockchain social media app rewards creativity
Publication date 20 February 2019 | 10:15 | ICTEleven years ago, at roughly this time of the year, Dutch-Cambodian man Lim Chhay Lem took a leap of faith, leaving his home in the Netherlands for his ancestral homeland in Cambodia, a country of which he had virtually no experienc
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Cambodian animation racing towards world-class imagery
Publication date 13 February 2019 | 09:47 | ICTIn a studio in Sen Sok district’s Phnom Penh Thmey commune, a team of six aspiring young digital artists work diligently on their desktops while Yok Chivalry walks around observing, ready to give advice and technical support.
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Koh Paen residents aim to keep bamboo bridge tradition alive
Publication date 06 February 2019 | 10:55 | ICTConnecting the island of Koh Paen to Kampong Cham city in Kampong Cham province is a giant 779m concrete bridge, opened in March last year, able to carry loads of 20 to 30 tonnes across the Mekong river.
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The metal straws ending plastic
Publication date 30 January 2019 | 15:13 | ICTNOT antiplastic, just antiexcessive waste.
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The Singaporean ride-hailing app challenging the industry’s big boys
Publication date 30 January 2019 | 11:59 | ICTCambodia is set to become the second destination for Singapore’s up and coming ride-hailing service aiming to unseat the region’s main contenders Pass App and Grab through its cheaper fares and novel business model.
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A new player enters Phnom Penh’s food delivery market
Publication date 23 January 2019 | 16:00 | ICTSeeing the growing number of office workers and smartphone users in Phnom Penh, two young entrepreneurs have entered the competitive world of mobile phone apps and launched their own food ordering service, Muuve Delivery.
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Two pioneer brothers offering first airboat tour in Cambodia
Publication date 16 January 2019 | 13:55 | ICTTwo Cambodian brothers broke new ground and found a creative way to earn a living after teaching themselves to build an airboat, now using the vehicle to provide tours of Tonle Sap lake.
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Facial recognition set to ‘personalise’ experience
Publication date 11 January 2019 | 11:26 | ICTIMAGINE walking into a store where a robot greets you by name, lets you know that your online order is ready, and then suggests other products you might want pick up.