Ambitous plans for Cambodian stock exchange

Updated August 2, 2008 09:19:05

Cambodia is moving ahead to establish a stock exchange by the end of next year.

As one of South East Asia's poorest nations, Cambodia hopes money raised through a stock exchange will allow companies to expand. It's getting advice from the South Korean Stock Exchange, while Korean companies are building the physical and financial infrastructure for the exchange.

Presenter: Karon Snowdon
Speakers: Marvin Yeo, Managing Partner with Frontier Investment Partners of Singapore and Cambodia; Professor Douglas Arner, Director of the Asian Institute of Internatiional Financial Law at Hong Kong University.