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| Monks, family and friends attend a ceremony to honour Madam Phou Sun Suy. (Stuart Alan Becker) |
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| Madam Phou Sun Suy enjoys her 82nd birthday. (Stuart Alan Becker) |
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| The entrance to Steung Hav Port and Special Economic Zone. (Stuart Alan Becker) |
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| Lim Chhiv Ho, aka "The Gatekeeper" in Wikileaks, is the director of Attwood Export Import Co Ltd - a liquor distributor - she is “one of Cambodia’s most well-connected women”, according to the cable. (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post) |
Matriarch honoured on 82nd birthday in Steung Hav ceremony
Monday, 26 December 2011
Stuart Alan Becker
The Phnom Penh Post
More than 300 people arrived in the small port estuary town of Steung Hav on Christmas Eve to participate in ceremonies for the 82nd birthday of Madam Phou Sun Suy.
Madam Lim Chivv Ho, chair of LCH Investment group, invited hundreds of family members and friends to attend a two-day celebration of the life of her mother in the quiet seaside community about 27 kilometres north of Sihanoukville.
A traditional Buddhist ceremony took place at the home of Madam Lim's sister, Madam Lim Meng Yean.
The family uncle, Ung Sun, 83, was also honoured as family members and close friends, most dressed in ceremonial Khmer Buddhist uniforms, showered the elderly pair with jasmine and flower petals following a Buddhist chant presided over by a group of important Khmer Buddhist monks, seated in their orange robes.
Madam Phou Sun Suy and Ung Sun were then placed in special chairs and carried several times in a circle around the house courtyard as a Khmer orchestra played traditional instruments in an area strewn with flowers and banana leaf decorations, ceremonial boats and fruit offerings.
Also in attendance were family relatives from France, Australia, New Zealand and the United States as well as distinguished visitors from Phnom Penh including Ohkna Ly Hour and also HE Ly Bun Thoeun.
Madam Lim Chivv Ho is perhaps the most successful entrepreneur among Madam Phou Sun Suy’s children. Lim started out running boats back and forth to ships at sea when Cambodia was still under armed military control, bringing in all kinds of necessary supplies. She endured severe hardships during the Pol Pot regime and half the family was wiped out.
Today, Madam Lim Chivv Ho’s flagship building is Attwood Center on Russian Boulevard toward the Phnom Penh Airport. In addition to her service as chair of LCH Investment group and managing director of Attwood Import Export, which has exclusive rights in Cambodia for Hennessy, Johnnie Walker and Heineken brand names, she chairs the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone Co Ltd, which hosts a number of factories in a protected area south of Phnom Penh – including a newly-opened Japanese factory for specialised mechanical devices.
One of her most ambitious projects is the development of the SteungHav International Port and Special Economic Zone near her sister’s home where the honouring ceremony of her mother and uncle took place on Saturday. Substantial works are now underway on that project including a complete jetty and docking facility, warehouse and other infrastructure.
Attwood Investment Group also owns LCH CE Mobiles Ltd, which is the licensed distributor of Samsung Mobile, and her sister, Lim Chivv Y, is the exclusive distributor of Phillips Consumer Electronics in Cambodia.
28 comments:
Not! a fucking traditional! Is a Stupid Show of!!!! LENG LAKHORN!!!
Who is this female gook who loves money and cheats? She is very ugly!
Cambodian traditional has no limit. Seems like you can do anything with money even sitting on a seat that belongs to Queen.
Ah pourk Viet blood in srok Khmer,muoy muoy taing kluon jea SDACH........Pourk ah ar kor ,hot chheam Khmer.........oy vea vineas slab taihorng.
KOMPOUCH AH HO CHI MINH ,AH VIETCONG,MI VIETCONG.
SROK XMER EILOV VEA TOV HEUI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you have a lot of money, you can buy a special chair and sit in higher position than the monks in a "special buddhist traditional" event to celebrate birthday.
Cambodia: Too many big fishes in a tiny pond.
9:45 PM
Most of the comments are fine because they expressed their anger toward this woman aka Madam Lim Chivv Ho. But your comment is not about just a frustration, it is about framing someone whom you are so jealous and so hate.
For your stupid remarks, let me remind you that this woman Madam Lim Chivv Ho is not Yuon, but a sino-Khmer, so stop your stupidity blaming any Khmer you hate as Yuon.
This Khmer woman is a successful business woman, whatever she does like cheating or stealing from others, let keep her in your own dirty Cambodia, don't frame on Yuon.
Yeahh.. in Khmer dogdom nation today, money can buy monarchy chair, and can change the tradition, by having their parents sit higher than the Monks. Oh la la.
OH! I thought he is Quen Mother 2nd. . Or she may once F$%$ by Shuhanouk! But Shihanouk would not f$%^ that so urgly woman!!!
I'M NOT SO PROUD TO THIS FUKER LADY! I'M SO PROUD TO THE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND TO THEIRS NATION, RISKY COUNTRY TO A BIG HOLE. WAKE UP PEOPLE! SRP, POOR PEOPLE! THE NATION NEED YOU! SRP!
SRP cannot help unless the ordinary Khmers in Cambodia help the SRP first!
Don't blame or curse the Vietnamese as it won't change a damn thing.
A lot of the ordinary Khmers are happy or at least seem to be happy with what is going on in their land even though the illegal Vietnamese is everywhere and has more protection, right and freedom than their poor compatriots.
So the bottom line is unless the Khmers inside want change, there is nothing much the Khmers outside can do to change the status quo, but keep cursing the Vietnamese!
Don't blame the greedy and opportunistic outsiders for the problems in your own house when your other brothers and sisters don't even think a little bit as you do!
That has been a Cambodian problem which led to the downfall of the Angkor Empire.
Are we too stupid to exist as a nation and thus need to become a second-class citizen in our own land to survive?
A concerned Khmer with no political affiliation with any party, but would definitely not vote for the CPP, FUNCINPEC or the Norodom Ranaridh Party.
Most of Sino-Khmers are very successful in Cambodia. I have nothing but respect and admiration for their hardwork and entrepreneurship. Many "pure" Khmers should open their eyes and learn for Sino-Khmers.
Beside, Sino-Khmers, often referred to as Kaun Chau-Chen, have made great contributions to Khmer societty in politics, economy and culturel. How many of us in this forum know that the legendary singer Sin Sisamuth is a Sino-Khmer?
Pure khmers are nothing but a bunch of hopeless, jealous, worthless, angry, finger pointing animals. That's why they are the slaves and the Sino-khmers are the masters.
Ms Soap
Foreigners and Sino-khmers build everything (highways, bridges, modern shopping malls, airports, etc) in Cambodia while pure khmers build nothing and destroy everything. Khmers, you're too dumb to exist on this planet, why not give your land/country to us so we can better manage it? We, viet the superior race, will take very good care of you and your lazy asses. You don't need to worry about anything, just work as slaves for us - your masters, and you will all be ok and happy. If you agree, say "no"; if you don't agree, say "yes". If you agree or don't agree, or don't care, then just sign and give your country to us. We will build a better tomorrow for you starting today.
Ms Soap
It looks like Cambodians here are against rich people; what do they want? Poor people???
Let be reasonable to each other; use your head before you say anything if you love your country. I wouldn't want you to be Cambodians either if you are behaving this way.
Cambodians here are against rich people because they are jealous. Khmers like to use the term "jis juan". That's how communism started, they let the poor and the uneducated control everything while the rich and the educated work as labourers or be killed.
kmeann néak borrisoth TÉ mi chor sampoeung loch réass khmer . SOTH TÉR MAFIA TÉ .MI NOROUK HOT CHHÉAMM KHMER MI NISS YOUN DÉGUISÉ EN KHMER....
Fool! not a bout rich or poor but about corruption and stupidity!!!!And the abuse of power to destroy religion and culture!
And acting stupiud!!!
There are some problems with the title statement used by KI Media Team to describe the birthday party of Ms. Lim Chhiv Ho's mother.
"Lavish and extravagant birthday..."
How do we define "lavish" and "extravagant" birthday?
These 2 words are relative in nature. Would such a party by considered lavish or extravagant in comparison to that of Queen Elizabeth II or that of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand? Of course, NOT!
There is a strong and likely possibility that Ms. Lim Chhiv Ho becomes rich as a result of her hardwork and intelligence and also that her business is done appropriately. Such a reasonably honest success is to be congratulated and encouraged as without scrupulous rich people and their intelligence, development of a country may not be possible or even moves very slowly.
Wealth encourages competition and sustains incentive, which in turn helps move Cambodia into a better and brighter future.
It is hard to do business in Cambodia without having good connections with the CPP to protect your legitimate and honest business from bad government officials even though you are running a reasonably honest company.
Here KI, without any proof, assumes that she is bad. Is she really that bad? She may have helped a lot of poor people of which we do not know. Don't assume!
There will always be the rich and the poor in this world in the same manner as there will always be smart students and unintelligent students. That is the fact!
As long as she helps build Cambodia with her company, she provides jobs for Cambodians, we should be happy and congratulate her.
Sino Khmers, Vietnamese Khmers, Thai Khmers, American Khmers, Canadian Khmers pure Khmers or whatever Khmers are real Khmers if they work hard, care for and defend the interests of Cambodia and protect the country.
To me, they are all patriotic Cambodians living in Cambodia if they fulfill the criteria mentioned above.
Being jealous is not going to move Cambodia anywhere, but backward!
Look at the KR policies and its consequences and I rest my case!
Pissed off
Correction"
"...Would such a party be considered lavish ..."
Add: Remember this is her money! As long as it is earned appropriately and legally, she can do whatever she wants with it!
Pissed off
Mi kanhjass Vietcong Phu Sun Suy,kom pong tream kluon tveu jea Preah Mohaksatreyani leu Anajac Xmer,jumnours Neak Mn'eang MONIQUE SIHANOUK teh deung ???
Pay oy oss Duoy tov, pourk mi may jor yuon Vietcong,toin srok Khmer kompong ronhei ronhay krom roborb ah chkuot yuon CPP.
crone?
Can she walk if she cannot why they don't buy her a wheelchair instead let people carry her like that it not good this is 21 century not in the dark age anymore.
LIM CHHIV HO,femme de yuon vietcong a transformée avec la belle mode traditionnelle comme cambodgienne.
Chineses karl pi sangkum jass,ros nov knong sangkum khmer sngat sngiem thomada doch khmer . khof pi ah yuon vietcong samay ah CPP eilov,
jong jenh muk ,jenh muot,
jea neak leng bart phsar,
jea you kaung,jeung pav,
jea neak mean $$$$$$$$$$
jea neak thom......
leus pi nis jong deur tour jea Sdach leu teuk dey Khmer ter md'orng.
SAM MUK HEUI AH SADAT OV XIHANOUK!
Mi viet Lim Chheam Ho ,look like the penis ah Ho Chheam Tminhhhhh !
guys maybe before wrote a comment that you angered about, you should have done research and not just reach based on the fact that wikileak said or produce?
first of all lim chhiv ho runs a number of donation center such as red cross or the orphanage that purely wants the best for khmer children where she believes there's hope as long as you don't failed. or failed and work up and do better ?
secondly where do you think the shopping mall and bridges that cambodia has, was built by who ? job opportunities is create by who ? the government ?
thirdly where is the TV station coming from ? and who produce many kind of show for the lazy khmer to watch at home ?
if khmer keeps getting jealous there's no development. no one is born to be rich? remember where did you family started out after the pol pot regime? did you family work hard enough or smart enough to venture out to see the opportunities for the future that benefiting your children?
are you sick and tired of calling people ugly ? look at yourself first maybe?
P.S that was meant to be a private event where media is not suppose to involve. under the law media publishing one private is transpassing one property and shall be remove unless its being authorize to be put up. or shall be prosecuted.
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