Armenian Tech Sector Keeps Growing Despite Recession
Փետրվար 09, 2021
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Armenia’s technology sector continued to grow rapidly last year despite a recession primarily caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Minister of High-Tech Industry Hakob Arshakian said on Tuesday.
“The combined turnover of [tech] companies rose by 20.6 percent to about 198 billion drams ($380 million),” Arshakian told a news conference.
“Please note that this includes only high-tech industry companies and doesn’t include telecom operators,” he said.
The total number of such firms reached 1,228 in 2020, Arshakian went on. The number of their officially registered employees jumped by 22 percent to 18,747, he said.
Many of them work for local subsidiaries of U.S. tech giants like Synopsys, National Instruments, Mentor Graphics and VMware. A growing number of other information technology (IT) engineers are employed by Armenian startups and other homegrown fi
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Government Vows Aid Program For Disabled War Veterans
Հունվար 21, 2021
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The Armenian government on Thursday pledged to provide demobilized soldiers maimed during the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh with modern prosthetics and help them find jobs and receive higher education.
Labor and Social Affairs Minister Mesrop Arakelian said the government will set up a commission of local and, if necessary, foreign prosthetic experts that will assess the individual needs of every disabled war veteran.
All veterans will be eligible for receiving, free of charge, artificial limbs recommended by the commission, Arakelian said during a weekly cabinet meeting in Yerevan. The government will pay for even the most expensive prostheses, he said.