{"id":11408,"date":"2021-01-20T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/20\/chen-zhi-and-prince-group-bring-the-art-of-swiss-watchmaking-to-cambodia\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T05:15:00","slug":"chen-zhi-and-prince-group-bring-the-art-of-swiss-watchmaking-to-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/20\/chen-zhi-and-prince-group-bring-the-art-of-swiss-watchmaking-to-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Chen Zhi and Prince Group Bring the Art of Swiss Watchmaking to Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING, CHINA &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 20 January 2021 &#8211;\u00a0The global pandemic has changed the&#13;<br \/>\nworking lives of many people across the world, including in Cambodia. <b>Chairman&#13;<br \/>\nNeak Oknha Chen Zhi (<\/b><b>\u9673<\/b><b>\u5fd7<\/b><b>\u516c\u7235)<\/b> and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princegroupholding.com\/\">Prince Group<\/a><\/b>,&#13;<br \/>\nbeing a responsible corporate citizen, have opened the Prince&#13;<br \/>\nHorology Vocational Training Center, Cambodia&#8217;s first independent&#13;<br \/>\nwatch school. The training center gives Cambodians the&#13;<br \/>\nopportunity to learn a new artisanal skill &#8212; watchmaking &#8212; and gain the&#13;<br \/>\nnecessary experience to help them in job markets in Cambodia and abroad. The&#13;<br \/>\ntraining center follows the strict regulations for watchmaking outlined by&#13;<br \/>\nregulatory bodies in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>As a country steeped in history, Cambodia has long preserved&#13;<br \/>\nartisanal skills for generations, with the Kingdom well-known for its ancient&#13;<br \/>\nhandwoven silk and traditional handicraft industries that boast a heritage&#13;<br \/>\ndating back to the time of the Khmer Empire, a significance that Chen Zhi and&#13;<br \/>\nPrince Group have always understood and appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>New artisanal skills, however, need to be introduced to improve job&#13;<br \/>\nopportunities for Cambodians, especially as the textile and garment industry, much&#13;<br \/>\nlike other sectors, has suffered greatly due to the COVID-19 pandemic with&#13;<br \/>\nmedia reports indicating that more than 55,000 workers have been stranded&#13;<br \/>\nwithout an income.<sup>[1]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Many Cambodians have returned to agriculture and setup small&#13;<br \/>\nbusinesses in a bid to restore balance to their lives. To that end,<b> <\/b>Chen Zhi and&#13;<br \/>\nPrince Group have launched the Prince Horology Vocational Training&#13;<br \/>\nCenter in Phenom Penh, Cambodia to help introduce opportunities to learn new&#13;<br \/>\nskills.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The state-of-the-art center offers a full-time, two-year course&#13;<br \/>\nmodelled on the <i>certificate f\u00e9d\u00e9ral de capacit\u00e9<\/i>\u00a0(CFC), standards&#13;<br \/>\nfor vocational training defined by the Swiss government that are widely&#13;<br \/>\nconsidered the industry norm for basic watchmaking education.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>As a component of Chen Zhi and Prince&#13;<br \/>\nGroup&#8217;s environment, social and governance (ESG) endeavours in Cambodia, the&#13;<br \/>\ncenter also offers scholarships to local students and those requiring&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial assistance, ranging from a 50% subsidy of the school fees to a fully&#13;<br \/>\npaid scholarship that includes accommodation. The first group of students have&#13;<br \/>\nstarted their watchmaking journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Prince Group has hired world-leading watchmakers, including Maarten&#13;<br \/>\nPieters, a former director of Switzerland&#8217;s leading watchmaking school, the&#13;<br \/>\nWatchmakers of Switzerland Training and Educational Program (WOSTEP).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Anthony McGonigle, the center&#8217;s chief instructor and one&#13;<br \/>\nof the brothers from Ireland&#8217;s most famous watchmaking family, compiled the&#13;<br \/>\nsyllabus, which encompasses lessons on the history and culture of watchmaking,&#13;<br \/>\nas well as benchwork, including machining, micro-mechanics, and production of&#13;<br \/>\ncomponents like the winding stem and balance staff etc. The center also focuses&#13;<br \/>\non traditional artisanal skills like decoration and turning.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#13;<br \/>\nam honoured to announce the launch of the Prince Horology Vocational Training Center,&#13;<br \/>\nCambodia&#8217;s first independent watch school.\u00a0All the center&#8217;s modern&#13;<br \/>\nmachinery and equipment have been imported from Switzerland, Germany and other&#13;<br \/>\ncountries,&#8221; said Chairman Neak Oknha Chen Zhi of Prince Group. &#8220;We have also&#13;<br \/>\nput together a world-class team to teach Cambodian and international students&#13;<br \/>\nnew skills that will make them competitive in job markets in Cambodia and&#13;<br \/>\nabroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Last year, Prince Group lived up to its&#13;<br \/>\nESG responsibilities in other fields. It made several large-scale donations to&#13;<br \/>\nhelp in the fight against the pandemic and assisted flood victims in Cambodia. Till&#13;<br \/>\ndate, Prince Charitable Foundation Organization has organized more than 240&#13;<br \/>\ncharitable events and donated funds and other materials worth more than US$11&#13;<br \/>\nmillion, benefitting more than 320,000 people. In early December, Chen Zhi and&#13;<br \/>\nPrince Group donated US$3,000,000 to Prime Minister Hun Sen to help Cambodia&#13;<br \/>\npurchase 1 million COVID-19 vaccines as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The Prince Horology Vocational Training Center is accepting&#13;<br \/>\napplications for the next school year that will begin on June 2, 2021. The&#13;<br \/>\ncenter accepts eight students &#8212; at least five of whom will be Cambodians &#8212; each&#13;<br \/>\nyear. For more details, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/princehorology.com\/\">https:\/\/princehorology.com\/<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<div>\n<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\"\/>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n<p><sup>[1]<\/sup> Cambodia&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nuncertain economic rebound in 2021, East Asia Forum feature series on 2020 in&#13;<br \/>\nreview (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastasiaforum.org\/2021\/01\/07\/cambodias-uncertain-economic-rebound-in-2021\/\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/61824#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, CHINA &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 20 January 2021 &#8211;\u00a0The global pandemic has changed the&#13; working lives of many people across the world, including in Cambodia. Chairman&#13; Neak Oknha Chen Zhi (\u9673\u5fd7\u516c\u7235) and Prince Group,&#13; being a responsible corporate citizen, have opened the Prince&#13; Horology Vocational Training Center, Cambodia&#8217;s first independent&#13; watch school. 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