- Teng Bunma
Teng Bunma (born 19?? in
Suphan Buri ,Thailand ) is one of the wealthiest businessmen inCambodia , [cite book|title=Open City #8: Beautiful to Strangers|author=Caitlin O'Connor,Joyce Johnson ,Harvey Shapiro , Susan Perry|pages=88|url=http://www.amazon.com/Open-City-Beautiful-Strangers/dp/1890447196/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/104-1437248-6452720|publisher=Grove Press |isbn=1890447196] [ [http://feer.com/breaking_news/981202.html Hong Kong, Singapore Legal Woes for Cambodian Tycoon Theng Bunma] ] a country whose wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small group of closely connected politicians, military officials and businessmen. He is of Chinese-Khmer descent. [cite book|title=Off the Rails in Phnom Penh: Into the Dark Heart of Guns, Girls, and Ganja|author=Amit Gilboa|pages=38|url=http://www.amazon.com/Off-Rails-Phnom-Penh-Heart/dp/9748303349/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/002-4601878-9323256|publisher=Asia Books |isbn=9748303349; [http://www.voltairenet.org/article7422.html Cambodge] ]Teng Bunma was one of first Thai-Cambodian [ [http://www.khmerintelligence.org/3Q2004.html KHMER INTELLIGENCE] ] businesspeople to invest significantly in Cambodia after the fall of the
Khmer Rouge in 1979. First president of Cambodia's Chamber of Commerce, he also owned the luxury Intercontinental hotel inPhnom Penh and "Rasmei Kampuchea", the country's most influential newspaper. His son is a partner with Khmer Rouge functionaryIeng Sary in running the Caesar international casino inPailin , a mining town in western Cambodia.A 1996 article ("Medellin on the Mekong") in the
Hong Kong -based "Far Eastern Economic Review", byUnited States journalist Nate Thayer, described Teng Bunma as a significant figure in Cambodia's international drug-smuggling tradeFact|date=April 2007.Thailand issued a warrant of arrest in June 1998 against Teng Bunma because of fraud. Police determinations took place also in Hong Kong: there Bunma had submitted a falsified passport for the registration of its enterprise "to Thai Boon Roong". For years Bunma has been denied entry into the USA, because he appears on that countries list of suspected drug dealers.
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