Top: Madam Phou Sun Suy enjoys her 82nd birthday. (Stuart Alan Becker)
Middle: Monks, family and friends attend a ceremony to honour Madam Phou Sun Suy. (Stuart Alan Becker)
Bottom: The entrance to Steung Hav Port and Special Economic Zone. (Stuart Alan Becker)Stuart Alan Becker
Monday, 26 December 2011
The Phnom Penh Post
More than 300 people arrived in the small port estuary town of Steung Hav on Christmas Eve to participate in ceremonies for the 82nd birthday of Madam Phou Sun Suy.
Madam Lim Chivv Ho, chair of LCH Investment group, invited hundreds of family members and friends to attend a two-day celebration of the life of her mother in the quiet seaside community about 27 kilometres north of Sihanoukville.
A traditional Buddhist ceremony took place at the home of Madam Lim's sister, Madam Lim Meng Yean.
The family uncle, Ung Sun, 83, was also honoured as family members and close friends, most dressed in ceremonial Khmer Buddhist uniforms, showered the elderly pair with jasmine and flower petals following a Buddhist chant presided over by a group of important Khmer Buddhist monks, seated in their orange robes.
Madam Phou Sun Suy and Ung Sun were then placed in special chairs and carried several times in a circle around the house courtyard as a Khmer orchestra played traditional instruments in an area strewn with flowers and banana leaf decorations, ceremonial boats and fruit offerings.
Also in attendance were family relatives from France, Australia, New Zealand and the United States as well as distinguished visitors from Phnom Penh including Ohkna Ly Hour and also HE Ly Bun Thoeun.
Madam Lim Chivv Ho is perhaps the most successful entrepreneur among Madam Phou Sun Suy’s children. Lim started out running boats back and forth to ships at sea when Cambodia was still under armed military control, bringing in all kinds of necessary supplies. She endured severe hardships during the Pol Pot regime and half the family was wiped out.
Today, Madam Lim Chivv Ho’s flagship building is Attwood Center on Russian Boulevard toward the Phnom Penh Airport. In addition to her service as chair of LCH Investment group and managing director of Attwood Import Export, which has exclusive rights in Cambodia for Hennessy, Johnnie Walker and Heineken brand names, she chairs the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone Co Ltd, which hosts a number of factories in a protected area south of Phnom Penh – including a newly-opened Japanese factory for specialised mechanical devices.
One of her most ambitious projects is the development of the SteungHav International Port and Special Economic Zone near her sister’s home where the honouring ceremony of her mother and uncle took place on Saturday. Substantial works are now underway on that project including a complete jetty and docking facility, warehouse and other infrastructure.
Attwood Investment Group also owns LCH CE Mobiles Ltd, which is the licensed distributor of Samsung Mobile, and her sister, Lim Chivv Y, is the exclusive distributor of Phillips Consumer Electronics in Cambodia.
Madam Lim Chivv Ho, chair of LCH Investment group, invited hundreds of family members and friends to attend a two-day celebration of the life of her mother in the quiet seaside community about 27 kilometres north of Sihanoukville.
A traditional Buddhist ceremony took place at the home of Madam Lim's sister, Madam Lim Meng Yean.
The family uncle, Ung Sun, 83, was also honoured as family members and close friends, most dressed in ceremonial Khmer Buddhist uniforms, showered the elderly pair with jasmine and flower petals following a Buddhist chant presided over by a group of important Khmer Buddhist monks, seated in their orange robes.
Madam Phou Sun Suy and Ung Sun were then placed in special chairs and carried several times in a circle around the house courtyard as a Khmer orchestra played traditional instruments in an area strewn with flowers and banana leaf decorations, ceremonial boats and fruit offerings.
Also in attendance were family relatives from France, Australia, New Zealand and the United States as well as distinguished visitors from Phnom Penh including Ohkna Ly Hour and also HE Ly Bun Thoeun.
Madam Lim Chivv Ho is perhaps the most successful entrepreneur among Madam Phou Sun Suy’s children. Lim started out running boats back and forth to ships at sea when Cambodia was still under armed military control, bringing in all kinds of necessary supplies. She endured severe hardships during the Pol Pot regime and half the family was wiped out.
Today, Madam Lim Chivv Ho’s flagship building is Attwood Center on Russian Boulevard toward the Phnom Penh Airport. In addition to her service as chair of LCH Investment group and managing director of Attwood Import Export, which has exclusive rights in Cambodia for Hennessy, Johnnie Walker and Heineken brand names, she chairs the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone Co Ltd, which hosts a number of factories in a protected area south of Phnom Penh – including a newly-opened Japanese factory for specialised mechanical devices.
One of her most ambitious projects is the development of the SteungHav International Port and Special Economic Zone near her sister’s home where the honouring ceremony of her mother and uncle took place on Saturday. Substantial works are now underway on that project including a complete jetty and docking facility, warehouse and other infrastructure.
Attwood Investment Group also owns LCH CE Mobiles Ltd, which is the licensed distributor of Samsung Mobile, and her sister, Lim Chivv Y, is the exclusive distributor of Phillips Consumer Electronics in Cambodia.
2 comments:
who the hell is she? why on the news for just a birthday party?
It is alright to show your loving,caring for your immediate family and it's naturally easy to do do.
Then things can be transcend to include the loving,caring of your community and above all your country. Avoid be so critical and jealous of someone who is successful and hardworking but also avoid be so insensitive of your surrounding.Don't drink water then pour out to the ground while the person next to you are still thirsty.You sure are not wishing Pol Pot to resurface and see you as a heartless upper class again.
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