PHNOM PENH, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's real estate boom maybe coming to an end, with the global financial meltdown threatening foreign investment, national media reported Friday.
"Our property markets are closely connected with the stock markets in South Korea and other Asian countries. If these markets fall, we are affected," Kang Chandararot, the head of the economists at the Cambodia Institute of Development Study, was quoted by the Phnom Penh Post as saying.
"We will see a recession in the short term, perhaps in six to 12 months," he said.
The South Korean government issued a statement this week urging banks to sell foreign assets to increase liquidity, the Post said.
South Korea is Cambodia's biggest investor and a fall in South Korea would be especially harmful to local growth, it said.
"South Korean and other Asian markets are very closely connected to the U.S., and these countries are our biggest investors," said Kang Chandararot.
Cambodia's real estate sector has enjoyed unprecedented growth since 2007, but began to slide in mid-2008, industry sources say.
No figures on the depth of the declines were available, but industry experts said the crisis' impact could be felt soon.
Meanwhile, Cheam Yeap, a lawmaker with the Cambodian People's Party and chairman of the National Banking and Finance Committee, said the U.S. crisis might affect the Kingdom's real estate market, but not the economy as a whole.
He said Cambodia's economy is sufficiently diversified in tourism, agriculture and garment manufacturing to withstand the global crisis.
"Our property markets are closely connected with the stock markets in South Korea and other Asian countries. If these markets fall, we are affected," Kang Chandararot, the head of the economists at the Cambodia Institute of Development Study, was quoted by the Phnom Penh Post as saying.
"We will see a recession in the short term, perhaps in six to 12 months," he said.
The South Korean government issued a statement this week urging banks to sell foreign assets to increase liquidity, the Post said.
South Korea is Cambodia's biggest investor and a fall in South Korea would be especially harmful to local growth, it said.
"South Korean and other Asian markets are very closely connected to the U.S., and these countries are our biggest investors," said Kang Chandararot.
Cambodia's real estate sector has enjoyed unprecedented growth since 2007, but began to slide in mid-2008, industry sources say.
No figures on the depth of the declines were available, but industry experts said the crisis' impact could be felt soon.
Meanwhile, Cheam Yeap, a lawmaker with the Cambodian People's Party and chairman of the National Banking and Finance Committee, said the U.S. crisis might affect the Kingdom's real estate market, but not the economy as a whole.
He said Cambodia's economy is sufficiently diversified in tourism, agriculture and garment manufacturing to withstand the global crisis.
6 comments:
No concern, we got lot of competence advisers who can hack the issue when the time comes.
Ok we have Neuk Mam for help!
Really,competent advisors may be... but the problem is the incompetent government owes foreign coutries too much already.
be perserverant, remember the so-called coup of 1997 that caused many people to abandon ship or sell all of their property and land, and people who took advantage of that opportunity really reap a huge profit from the real estate later on since UNTAC came to cambodia in 2000 because most people in cambodia who got rich now, they owed it to that time of crisis of the 1997 coup. again, in cambodia, do watch out for good opportunity in the real estate during a time of short-term crisis because cambodia is not the same anymore and will never be the same again, meaning cambodia will always move forward, not backward; only the KR era was moving backward, that's because they were stupid, ran by stupid, ignorant people, that they were! cambodia knows better now. so, please be smart and be updated in your knowledge because don't expect the cambodian real estate to slow down or go down, maybe temporarily, if it goes down at all; however, keep in mind, many, many khmer people got rich due to real estate boom; let's not forget that! god bless cambodia.
I DON'T THINK CAMBODAIN PEOPLE DO NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THIS ECONOMIC CHAOS.
CAMBODIAN PEOPLE ARE MORE RESILIENT. THEY CAN ADAPT TO RIVER BEND AND CURVE IN THEIR SOULS/MINDS BASE ON POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE.
THEY CAN EAT GRASS AND WILD POTATOS. THEY CAN GO WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER FOR A WEEK. THEY CAN FIGHT THAI ARMY WITH BARE HANDS OR WEARING FLIP FLOP WITH RUSTY WEAPONS. THEY HAVE SO MANY MAGICAL/SUPERNATURAL WITCHCRAFTS, WHO CAN FLY OR WAL ON WATER OR TO MAKE FOOD, RAIN, AND ECT...
LOOK!!! RIGHT NOW THEY DON'T HAVE ANY MUCH HELP FROM THIS GOVERNMENT, AND THEY CAN LIVE JUST FINE. CATCH CRAB,SNAIL, FISH IN FIELD. THE BEST THEY HAVE HAND ODWN FROM UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM.
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON....
one simple words to 10:10pm.
You got SHIT!!
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