Cham Prasidh ( km, ចម ប្រសិទ្ធ; born 15 May 1951) is the

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n Minister of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. His Chinese name is 黃裕德虎. Mr Prasidh previously served as a Senior Minister and Minister of Commerce for 15 years. He is a member of the

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and was elected to represent Siem Reap Province in the

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in 2003. Cham was born Ung You Teckhor to an ethnic

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family who were engaged in

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. His father, Ung You Y, served as the member of parliament for

Stung Treng Stung Treng City ( km, ទីក្រុងស្ទឹងត្រែង) ( lo, ຊຽງແຕງ ) is the capital of Stung Treng Province, Cambodia. It is the major city (and capital) of both the district and province. Geography Stung Tren ...

province during

Lon Nol Marshal Lon Nol ( km, លន់ នល់, also ; 13 November 1913 – 17 November 1985) was a Cambodian politician and general who served as Prime Minister of Cambodia The prime minister of Cambodia ( km, នាយករដ្ឋមន្ ...

's regime before the

Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge (; ; km, ខ្មែរក្រហម, ; ) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. ...

took over Cambodia. After the 2013 general elections, the Ministry of Industry, Mines, and Energy was split into two separate ministries: the Ministry of Industry and the Handicrafts and Ministry of Mines and Energy with the reasoning that the scale of work was too big for one ministry to handle.

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* Gottesman, Evans R., ''Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation Building'', Silkworm Books, 2004, 1951 births Cambodian politicians of Chinese descent Members of the National Assembly (Cambodia) Living people Cambodian People's Party politicians Government ministers of Cambodia People from Phnom Penh Cambodian Theravada Buddhists Royal University of Phnom Penh alumni {{Cambodia-politician-stub