My Khmer friend is constantly trying to hire full stack dev grads for his website development team and offers $600/pm to start with rapid promotion. He finds it difficult to recruit and retain them. Recruiting and retaining seem like two different things. Some people recruit the wrong people and ar...

I don't have any direct experience, but I know someone who works in that field and employs local programmers. He pays them quite well, but says that sometimes they get too focused on one tiny thing, and it's hard for them to fall back and see the bigger picture (whatever that means). Or they'll fai...

Is the business training new graduates or are you recruiting / training staff for your existing business? The business isn't training new people, but when someone asked me would I do it for x baht, I thought to myself, that's actually quite viable, but Thailand has rules about numbers, and if you h...

Imagine the things you might start to say if mocking you was made a criminal offence, eh... https://macropolo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/xi-1.jpg The thought consists of a 14-point basic policy as follows:[6][7] 1. Ensuring Communist Party of China leadership over all forms of work in China. 2. ...

Sure. The fact that you can fly to and from Bangkok helps too. It seemed like SR has nearly a dozen universities and maybe some colleges too, and perhaps isn't too far to drive to from Poipet.

"You don't need a deep, dark place. You just need some discipline." For most people self discipline comes from the deepest darkest place possible and becomes accessible only momentarily. I agree. You'll just end up talking to yourself a lot, looking for distractions, and not being very pr...

Thanks for your replies. To answer CamExpat, I'm British. I have a UK company, a Thai incarnation of that company, and want to set up a Cambodian incarnation of that company. I want to train them to do coding in languages like C/C++/C#. Typically in the UK, and most likely anywhere else, kids come o...

Hello, I've read a few threads on here, and get the impression it's very much like other parts of SEAsia, in terms of people having naive notions of how things will be and getting harsh reality checks. Yet, it sounds like some people have found a way to do OK, and perhaps some of that is timing, and...

Taste for the exotic Absolutely.... chocolate asians... yummy i think this might be the exotic khmer look people have been talking about... https://i.imgur.com/NfqEqNr.jpg Amen. I would pay her to get on a sunbed and go bourneville. Small, dark chocolate Asian ladies with big eyes and big lips are ...

Just curious...