Asean invests $178 Million in Cambodia for the first semester of 2012

Cambodia has gained the investments of 178 million U.S. dollars from its ASEAN member states in the first six months of 2012, according to a report from the Council for the Development of Cambodia said this week. From January to June this year, the country granted licenses to four projects from Thailand with the total investment of 84 million U.S. dollars, four projects from Vietnam with 82.5 million U.S. dollars, and one project worth 11.5 million U.S. dollars from Singapore, the report said. Cambodia licensed to 72 domestic and foreign investment project worth about 692 million in first half of 2012. Local investors focused on beverage manufacturing, rice mills, to tourism resort development. And foreign investors from Us, UK, Hong Kong, South Korea also focused on garment and textile factories, to rice mills.