In the late 1980s, Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Chen Lip Keong, the Chief Executive Officer of NagaCorp, visited Phnom Penh from Malaysia as part of a strategic investment programme to stimulate tourism and trade in Cambodia.

Currently the 26th richest Malaysian, Dr. Chen is not only the founder and controlling shareholder in NagaCorp, but he is Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Cambodia and an Advisor to the Royal Government of Cambodia with Ministerial status – he is also an actual medical doctor.