COVID-19 border closures along the Cambodian and Thai border crossing of Poipet have caused serious damage to nearby businesses that were mainly catering to both casinos and travellers. Strict enforcement has also resulted in many Cambodian workers being captured by Thai authorities after either being stranded or when trying to cross the border to work […]
Read MoreThe two-way trade between Cambodia and Thailand was valued at $4,555 million in the first seven months of this year, a 10.8 percent decrease compared to the same period last year. From January to July, Cambodia exported $839 million worth of products to Thailand, a year-on-year decline of 21.13 percent, according to figures from Thailand’s […]
Read MoreJapanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu said that the development of Sihanoukville Autonomous Port is critical for increasing connections within the Southern Economic Corridor and promoting a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific”. The statement came from the Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry after Motegi’s meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday, the second day of his two-day […]
Read MoreCinemas are now re-open and pulling back revenue after five months of being shut down because of the Novel Coronavirus. Around 55,000 people returned to the big screens around Cambodia in the first week alone, still a fraction of previous audiences. After five long months of closures, silver screens re-opened across the Kingdom and saw […]
Read MoreInternal travellers are giving the Kingdom’s tourism sector, devastated by COVID-19, a breath of fresh air, according to insiders. The Kingdom’s tourism attracted more than 1.4 million internal visitors, both locals and foreigners who are living here, during the week of Khmer New Year substitute days even though the country issued cautions over the pandemic, […]
Read MoreThe Prime Minister of Vietnam has issued a plan to implement a memorandum of understanding on the development and connection of border trade infrastructure between Vietnam and Cambodia. The implementation started on August 19 and will last until October 2022. If the MoU is extended, the plan will continue to be carried out for three […]
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