Asiana Airlines Provides 50 Sets of Solar-Powered Streetlights to APSARA
Authority through KOICA
KOICA News Release: trainslation from local newspaper
Kampuchea Thmey
Daily
Year 11 Volume
2851, Friday, May 04, 2012
Siem Reap
Province: Fifty (50) Sets of Solar-Powered
Streetlights and one place of playground were provided by Asiana Airlines to
APSARA Authority under the cooperation between APSARA Authority, KOICA and
Asiana Airlines. The hand-over ceremony was held at Run-Taek commune,
Bantheaysrey district of Siem Reap province under the presidency of H.E. Bun
Narith, Director General of APSARA Authority, Dr. Shin Euicheol, Representative
of KOICA Cambodia Office and Mr. Cho Kyu Yung, Vice President of Asiana
Airlines.
A the hand-over ceremony, H.E. Bun Narith, Director General
of APSARA Authority, reminded that within the cooperation framework between APSARA
Authority and KOICA for the purpose of better preserving and developing the
Angkor site, the Asiana Airlines, KOICA and APSARA Authority signed, on August
19, 2010, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the provision of fifty (50)
sets of solar-powered streetlights to APSARA Authority.
During 2010-2011, Asisna Airlines and KOICA provided APSARA
Authority thirty four (34) solar-powered streetlights, which were erected at
the following locations: 1 near Krous Primary School, 4 at the Spean Neak
bridge, 6 along the Svay Tom road, 7 along the West bypass road, 2 at the
beginning of the road in front of the Fourth Regional Military Station, 3 at
the junction of the Pradak road, nad 11 in the Run-Taek eco-village. 2012
alone, KOICA and Asiana Airlines decided to provide more seventeen (17)
solar-powered streetlights and one (1) place of playground to APSARA Authority.
H.E. Bun Narith affirmed that these achievements could be
viewed as invaluable gifts for the people in Run-Taek eco-village as well as
for the people in Siem Reap province. These gifts also reflected a good culture
of sharing of KOICA and Asiana Airlines, whose donation would importantly contribute
to the sustainable development of Angkor-Siem Reap regi0n in line with
strategies laid by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) under the visionary
leadership of Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, the Prime Minister of
the Cambodia. H.E. Bun Narith also thanked KOICA and Asiana Airlines for these
priceless contributions the betterment of the Angkor-Siem Reap region as well
as to improve the living condition of the people.
Dr. Shin
Euicheol, Representative of KOICA Cambodia Office, said that Asiana Airlines
was working closely with KOICA and APSRA Authority to install solar-powered
streetlights near the Angkor Wat temple complex as part of its efforts to help
preserve the side and to improve safety for national and international tourists.
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