Cambodia
Cambodia reintroduces e-visa scheme for tourists
Cambodia has reintroduced its e-visa scheme for tourists after the country decided to gradually open its borders as distress from the Covid-19 pandemic eases.
The...
Cambodian students create drone from school chair
Cambodian students have developed and designed a prototype drone from a school chair by adding a structure with eight propellers which is able to...
Cambodia hires notorious US lobbying firm to improve its image abroad
The Cambodian government has commissioned a US-based lobbying firm to improve the country’s image in United States and elsewhere, a report by US-sponsored news...
Dispute about ‘stolen’ Cambodian oil could take years, lawyers say
The legal dispute about who is the rightful owner of the Cambodian oil that has been “stolen” by an oil tanker after Singaporean oil...
Cambodia’s stolen oil resurfaces in Indonesian waters
Indonesia's navy said on August 25 that it has seized a tanker and its crew who were wanted on charges of stealing nearly 300,000...
Cambodia’s online marketplace Smile Shop gets boost from venture investor
Cambodian e-marketplace Smile Shop, dubbed the leading business-to-consumer e-commerce platform in the country, is receiving a major boost from a new partnership with Chinese...
Cambodia, Malaysia launch cross-border digital money transfers
The National Bank of Cambodia and Malaysian banking group Malayan Banking, or Maybank, launched a new mobile...
Cambodia’s largest hydropower dam under fire for destroying livelihoods
The Lower Sesan 2 dam has flooded large parts of an area in northeastern Cambodia
A massive Chinese-financed...
Cambodia’s new state-backed crypto money meets strong response
Cambodia’s central bank-backed crypto currency rollout, which started as an experiment in October last year, has so...
Cambodia officially ends its short-lived oil production venture
Cambodia on August 1 officially ended its short-lived foray into the oil production business after the exploration...
Cambodia kicks off first commercial gold production
Shortly after it turned out that Cambodia’s dream of becoming an oil-producing nation won’t fulfil in the...
Cambodia wants Sweden’s Ikea and Volvo invest in Cambodia
Cambodia is calling on Sweden to invest in the country’s furniture production and vehicle assembly industries, it...
Cambodia deploys new army of mine-sniffing rats
Rats can be trained to sniff TNT
Cambodia has deployed its next generation of rat recruits to sniff...
Cambodia’s short oil dream ends as exploration firm collapses
Cambodia’s dream of becoming an oil-producing nation had a rude awakening as the company commissioned with the...
Pandemic shakes Cambodia’s construction sector
Residential housing construction in Phnom Penh
Economic disruption by the Covid-19 pandemic is taking a toll on Cambodia’s...
Cambodia plans to re-open to foreign tourists in fourth quarter 2021
Cambodia’s government has communicated its ambition to re-open the country in the fourth quarter this year for...
Cambodia’s largest casino cuts 1,300 jobs amid pandemic
Cambodia’s largest casino, NagaWorld in Phnom Penh, is cutting 1,300 jobs as its once thriving business nearly...
Cambodia’s oil wealth dreams hitting a wall
Oil platform in the Apsara oil field offshore Cambodia
Cambodia’s hopes for prosperity from the exploitation of an...
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Malaysian doctor creates world’s first unisex condom
Malaysia has come in the news for a rather unconventional, but nevertheless quite practical innovation: the world’s first unisex condom.
According to an October 28...
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Indonesia ranks among top emerging crypto countries
The adoption of cryptocurrency in Indonesia is rapidly growing as the country has seen surging interest in digital assets this year and now ranks...