A Cambodian on the front cover of Forbes Magazine
“He’s Kith Meng, and that same swagger is on display practically everywhere you look these days in Cambodia. From hotels to telecoms and television, banking, insurance, even education, Kith’s Royal Group has a finger in nearly every pot simmering in Asia’s newest tiger economy.”
It is nice to see something positive about Cambodia, even though in the article it states that “He’s a major supporter–and beneficiary–of the prime minister, say many in the Phnom Penh business community. He holds the title of Okhna, bestowed on those who make civic contributions of $100,000 or more. Yet Kith denies receiving any special privileges, launching into a rage over a recent story on the Internet that suggested that he had the prime minister’s ear.” Hopefully those internet stories are not true. It would be tough on the Cambodian people to see that one of them that has “made it” turn out to be full of corruptions like the others.
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