Thailand’s Big C opens first supermarket in Cambodia

The Thai retailing giant Big C has opened its first supermarket in Cambodia.Big C Poipet had its soft opening on Saturday, the company announced on its Facebook page. “A soft opening for the Poipet Hypermarket was held under our vision to be the leading Thai retai ...

Cambodia, Thailand to officially open railway connection

The rail lines between Cambodia and Thailand will be officially connected on April 22, increasing the facilitation of cross-border travel, logistics, and trade by rail. H.E Sun Chanthol, Senior Minister and Minister of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MP ...

Big C Supermarket Coming to Cambodia

The Thai retailing giant is to invest about $ 10 million in the construction of the Big C supermarket in Poipet.Domestic investors, Sok Heang, said by telephone on Monday that the mall will start construction next December 2018, although the company has not received a r ...

Poipet resumes airport project

The Poipet Airport development project, which had been abandoned for more than 10 years, will resume construction in 2020 as the city welcomes more Chinese, say provincial authorities.Hotel and casino investment firm Holiday Palace began construction of the airport in 2 ...

Poipet: From gambling hub to an industrial boomtown

he town of Poipet, which hosts Cambodia’s main border crossing with Thailand, is located between Siem Reap and Battambang and has gained its popularity as a cross-border gambling destination.Because most forms of gambling are banned in Thailand, for years the casi ...