Penang-based Leader Universal Holdings Berhad (leader) was one of the forerunners of heavy Malaysian investment into Cambodia at a time when the country was still regarded as dangerous and volatile. leader’s persistence has paid off and today the Group is a major player in Cambodia’s power generation and transmission industry.
CAMBODIA IN THE early 1990s was not the investment location of choice for the “big guns” of the Western business elite, despite its proximity to the Asian Tigers. The small Indochinese nation had endured nearly two decades of Khmer Rouge brutality and war and was only taking baby steps towards re-establishing some semblance of normality after the ceasefire of 1991 and the introduction of United Nations (UN) supervision.
