W Australia welcomes Cambodian businesses

Western Australia welcomes business migrants from Cambodia and there are no restrictions on what kinds of business they can do in the Australian state, as long as it is legal, a Western Australian government official told a business migration seminar on Saturday.

In Western Australia, we have no restrictions on the type of business you want to transact in the state. This means that if you have a business in Cambodia and want to do something different in Western Australia, we welcome that,” said Leo Yu, a business migration officer with the Western Australia state government’s Small Business Development Corporation.

We have business migrants who maybe did property development in their home country but come over to Perth – the capital of Western Australia – and want to start a restaurant, that’s okay,” Mr Yu told the seminar, organised by the Australian Migration Agents Pty. Ltd.

But in some states in Australia they have limitations and restrictions on what type of business you can run. In Western Australia, there are no restrictions as long as it is a legally qualified business,” he pointed out.

The one-day business migration seminar was attended by members of the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, invited guests and the media.

Mr Yu, in promoting Western Australia as the ideal place for Cambodian businessmen to migrate to, said that its capital Perth has been ranked one of the top 10 livable cities in the world since 2004.

Perth is the only Australian capital city that is in the same time zone of 60 percent of the world’s total population. We are in the same time zone as Singapore, Malaysia, and China. So there’s only an hour difference from Perth and Cambodia,” he said.

“So we are in the centre of the world’s economy and world population and also we are the closest Australian city to Cambodia.

“For businessmen, I think, time is money – the time difference between Cambodia and Western Australia is conducive for carrying out business. The shorter flight time between Perth and Phnom Penh means it’s easy for you to get there and come back.”

Mr Yu told the seminar that a crucial factor for many businessmen wanting to migrate to Australia was their children’s higher education.

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