Singapore business community holds Shiok Night

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Guests at the Singapore Club Cambodia business networking event Shiok Night enjoying their dinner in Phnom Penh. KT/Kang Sothear

Singapore Club Cambodia (SCC) held its monthly business networking event called Shiok Night last Friday in Phnom Penh aimed at the Singaporean business community in Cambodia.

Erich Poh, Vice President of SCC and COO of BIC Insurance Plc — a portfolio of BIC Group in Cambodia, said about 60 guests attended the sixth face-to-face event at Dim Sum Emperor restaurant in Tuol Kork district.

Phillip Bank sponsors the food and beverage at Shiok Nights since the start of this year.

“The event is to provide a platform for the public participants to meet and talk to one another like introducing their businesses and making friends. Most of them get many benefits for their businesses, like people here will know this restaurant offers banquet and later they will come to enjoy the food,” said Poh.

Poh added that after the Shiok Night, which was attended by members of the banking, insurance, construction, real estate firms and so on, SCC will organise the Singapore National Day programme on August 12 – a bigger event – at Himawari Hotel Apartments.

Nicholas Seah, General Manager of Singaporean interior design service firm Spacelogic International (Cambodia) Co Ltd, said he has been taking part in the event for more than 10 times and has lived and worked in Cambodia for 15 years as he saw a potential for business when Hwang DBS bank commissioned the company to provide services about 10 years ago.

“I have met some potential customers, seen some impacts and collected useful information about industries and also met some old friends who lived in Singapore and they came here to do business. I think it is very supportive of business. That’s why more and more companies are here,” Seah told Khmer Times.

He added that ninety percent of employees [in his firm] are Cambodians such as architects and the company is trying to be innovative and competitive in the market as there are more and more companies doing this business and the market is still big.

Cindy Chong, senior associate marketing director of PropNex (Cambodia) Co Ltd, a full-service real estate company in Phnom Penh, said the company opened about six months ago when her family with four children moved from Singapore to Cambodia to enjoy the lifestyle and to do business.

“We can go places and then get exposed to a lot of things like learning new culture .. even cooking food, buy food online, do electronic payment and use the internet. So, I can do a lot of things like working and even eating street food or at small restaurants and so on and so forth,” she said.

Cindy said that it was her first time at the Shiok Night and she met many Singaporean businesspeople in Cambodia and some of them have been living in the country for more than 10 years. As a newcomer, she said she was impressed after discovering business opportunities in the real estate industry in the Kingdom.

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