Cambodia attracts 692 mln USD investment in 1st 6 months
Cambodia attracts 692 mln USD investment in 1st 6 months
Cambodia had issued licenses to 72 domestic and foreign investment projects in equivalent to 692 million U.S. dollars in the first half of 2012, according to a report of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Friday.
During the January-June period this year, domestic investment topped the chart with a total venture of 148 million U.S. dollars in 12 projects, followed by China with 141 million U.S. dollars in 19 projects, and Thailand with 84 million U.S. dollars in 4 projects.
Local investors invested in the fields of fertilizer manufacturing, beverage manufacturing, rice milling, tapioca powder processing, garment factories, hotel and resort development, and information technology, said the report. Chinese investors put their ventures here in garment and textile industry and rice mills, whilst Thailand in the fields of rice milling, footwear factory and clothe manufacturing.
Besides these investors, during the period, the country saw investments from the United States, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, the United Kingdom, South Korea, China's Taiwan, China's Hong Kong, India, Japan and Samoa.
In the whole year of 2011, the country attracted 164 domestic and foreign investment projects worth 7.01 billion U.S. dollars.
xinhua
