The annual catch of the small fish used to make prahok, Cambodia’s famously pungent fish paste, has been abundant this year, fishers and traders say. But there appear to be fewer buyers around, and prices have dropped by as much as half, they say.
AirAsia announced on Thursday it would resume flights to Cambodia in January, but Phnom Penh’s airport operator expects arrivals in 2022 to be “far from the prepandemic level of traffic of 2019.”
Eighty tons of ketamine precursors have been found following a fatal shootout and seizure of 1.4 tons of the drug that led authorities to a Kampong Speu lab, where a prominent agroindustrial company said it was merely leasing facilities within the same compound.
Four defendants linked to British businessman Gregg Fryett appealed their prison sentences and fines on Tuesday, claiming that they had nothing to do with the forgery of documents.
ABA Bank suffered widespread outages in its services on Thursday, especially its popular mobile and payment application, after a scheduled system upgrade went awry Wednesday night.
NagaWorld workers and union leaders who have refused to accept termination are planning rallies and urging a strike next month, vowing to continue until the casino company’s management addresses their current and unsolved grievances.
Prime Minister Hun Sen dropped quarantine requirements and overnight PCR tests upon arrival for all vaccinated travelers from Monday, going beyond Thailand’s reopening to dozens of countries early this month.
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the reopening of the country at a vaccination event on Monday, and did not detail if there would be further relaxing of existing quarantine measures but said he was considering lifting restrictions on “high-risk” businesses.
NagaWorld built its business — which earned more than $1.7 billion in yearly revenue before the pandemic — in part through the CEO’s use of his offshore companies and a series of loans that lifted the casino company’s value, according to documents and emails released in a major leak of offshore enterprise documents.
VOD identified nine offshore companies connected to Cambodian nationals or Cambodia-based business owners in the sweeping leak of offshore company files known as the Pandora Papers. A deeper look at the business history hints at further connections to powerful individuals for some of the companies included, while others are little-known.
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