Thursday, November 21, 2013

Vietnamese market planned


Cambodia received $1.28 billion in direct investment from Vietnam between 1994 and 2012, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia. Most of the investment was in agriculture, the financial industry, and tourism.

Pha Lina photo
May Kunmakara, The Phnom Penh Post
Tue, 19 November 2013

Cambodia's first Vietnamese wholesale market is being constructed in Phnom Penh, a Vietnamese trade officer told the Post yesterday.

Tran Tu, trade attaché of the Vietnam Trade Office in Cambodia, said the new wholesale market seeks to enhance Vietnamese produce in Cambodia.

“The idea is good because until now there [has been] no Vietnamese wholesale market in Cambodia,” he said.

The wholesale market, will be located on National Road 5, about nine kilometres from the centre of Phnom Penh, Tu said, adding that he was not sure when it would begin trading.

The decision to open a wholesale market follows the closing of Cambodia’s largest Vietnamese supermarket on Monivong Boulevard last month. Its owner, Vietnamese-Cambodian Seng Meng, is to partner with a local businessman to open up the new wholesale market.
Seng Meng declined to comment on the project, but his assistant confirmed that construction for the new building had begun.

Tu at the Vietnam Trade Office said the old supermarket was closed due to high rental fees, and although he declined to identify the local partner, he said a more affordable deal had been struck on the wholesale market.

“Actually, they set the plan [to build the wholesale market] two years ago, but they waited to find a partner [to] provide the land for the building,” he said.

The planned market will also offer products from Thailand, China and South Korea.

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam reached $2.7 billion in the first nine months of this year, a 10 per cent increase compared to $2.45 billion in the same period last year, data from the Vietnamese Trade Office in Phnom Penh show.

Cambodia received $1.28 billion in direct investment from Vietnam between 1994 and 2012, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia. Most of the investment was in agriculture, the financial industry, and tourism.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cambodia received $1.28 billion in direct investment from Vietnam between 1994 and 2012.

This explains why the deforestation, the land concession and the illegal logging to Vietname.

$1.28 billion ever goes in the ordinary peoples pocket??

Anonymous said...

HOW MANY BILLIONS YOUN HAS STOLEN FROM CAMBODIA?

Anonymous said...

How much profits did Yiekcong steals from us(Khmer) triples the amount that they invested in....Don't trust Yuons nor Chens,without profits they won't pay attention or invests in any thing,they give you (Khmer) one cent,they steal from you (Khmer) a millions cents! Did you see the differences!? Wake up folks!

Kmenhwatt

Anonymous said...

Ah kantorp youn robber get out of khmer land. Khmer hate youn vietcong very very very much. Ah barbarian youn vietcong have sick brain want to control Cambodia. Don't even dream ah brain derachhann, your time is coming.
Ah youn=ah kantorp=ah nheurg=ah srarkei daung=ah srakei yeur= ah chor plunn= ah chor lourch= ah kheatakor chheam kdauv, ah kheatakor chheam trarchack.