Mong rithy biography
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 04 PHNOM PENH 001034 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP, INR/B DEPARTMENT PASS TO USAID/ANE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ECON, PGOV, PHUM, PINR, CB SUBJECT: CAMBODIA'S TOP TEN TYCOONS Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 1. (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Hun Sen is making efforts to bridge the gap between the political and private sector by cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with the country's most prominent business tycoons. These business leaders contribute money to the ruling Cambodian Peoples Party (CPP) and Hun Sen can call on them to fund charities and public works projects and to attract foreign investment, achievements for which the CPP can claim credit. In return, the business tycoons enjoy the added credibility and legitimacy of having the Prime Minister's support. These symbiotic relationships illustrate the networks of business tycoons, political figures,
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About Us
Originally, Mong Reththy Group was a small company based on the creative ideas of a businessman from a rural poor family, Mr. Oknha Mong Rithy. Mong Reththy Group (MRG) was established on January 1, 1989 and officially registered on February 3, 1993. The company later regained its business listing on November 29, 2000 with an första capital of only US $ 1,000.
Currently, MRG is the largest agribusiness company in the Kingdom of Cambodia and fryst vatten among the top 5 companies in Southeast Asia. MRG's success is derived from the use of modern redskap, proven track record, partnerships with many international companies, plus the efforts of more than 10,000 employees who adhere to corporate ethics.
Under the image of competitiveness and potential leadership, Mong Reththy Group has achieved many products and expanded business activities to create some branches in the Kingdom of Cambodia such as:
1st : Mong Reththy Group is the company headquarter
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Mong Reththy
Sino-Khmer businessman
Lok Oknha Mong Reththy (Khmer: ម៉ុង ឫទ្ធី) is a Sino-Khmer businessman[1]oknha, a member of the Cambodian Senate, a close counselor to Prime Minister Hun Sen and even dubbed "Hun's Sen's money man".[2] He is one of the main actors of agriculture in Cambodia, through his firm Mong Reththy Group Limited,[3] the largest agro-industrial company in Cambodia.[1]
Biography
[edit]A pagoda child and childhood friend of Hun Sen
[edit]As a child, Riththy received his education from the local Buddhist pagoda, Wat Neakavoan, in Phnom Penh for four years. It was there during his childhood that he befriended his classmate Hun Sen.
Reththy was the fifth child of 12 siblings, five of whom died under Pol Pot.
During the Khmer Rouge, he was forcibly married to his current wife. From 1979 to 1989, Riththy worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of Public Affairs, department of traffic signs.[4]