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State earns weak marks for messaging during tension
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 31/07/2025
» Social media platforms in Thailand recorded 2.6 million messages in July about Thailand-Cambodia border tensions, with Facebook, YouTube and X, formerly called Twitter, the top three channels.
Goods from Vietnam replacing Thai products in Cambodia
Jakkrit Waewklaihong, Published on 15/07/2025
» TRAT - Cambodian retailers in Koh Kong, a province bordering eastern Thailand, are turning to imports from Vietnam to fill shelves left empty by the ban on border trade with Thailand.
Adding to the uncertainty
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 23/06/2025
» The ongoing disputes between Thailand and Cambodia have had a minimal effect on Thai businesses, but their uncertain nature has created a sense of unease among businesses and individuals.
Disconnections hit Thai internet and mobile customers in Cambodia
KOMSAN TORTERMVASANA and SUCHIT LEESA-NGUANSUK, Published on 13/06/2025
» Thai telecom operators and some of their Thai corporate customers doing business in Cambodia are suffering from telecom and broadband network disconnections between the two countries as border tensions persist.
Malaysia, Cambodia launch cross-border QR payments
Reuters and Xinhua, Published on 19/09/2024
» KUALA LUMPUR - The central banks of Malaysia and Cambodia on Thursday launched a cross-border quick response (QR) payment linkage between the two countries, allowing consumers and merchants to make and receive instant retail payments through mobile applications.
Krungsri Organises Japan-ASEAN Startup Business Matching Fair 2024, To Ignite Startup Growth Beyond ASEAN
Published on 10/07/2024
» A "startup" is a new enterprise with the potential for exponential growth by integrating and developing knowledge from science, technology, and social sciences into innovations that solve the public's daily life problems (Pain Points). These innovations have significant potential to drive the economy. However, many startups lack early-stage funding, preventing them from reaching their dream of becoming "unicorns."
Krungsri hosts Japan-ASEAN Startup Business Matching Fair 2023
Published on 11/07/2023
» In Thai national economy, there are more than 3 million micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. They account for approximately 35 percent of the country’s GDP and above 70 percent of employment. Both the government and private sectors have been supporting startup and small business development for many years, while also creating business digitalisation infrastructure. Thus, Thailand is an ideal place for Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited (Krungsri) and strategic alliances to host its first Japan-ASEAN startup business matching event.
Cambodia bans live pig imports from Thailand, Vietnam
Khmer Times, Published on 14/01/2022
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has temporarily stopped the import of pigs from its neighbours Thailand and Vietnam, due to an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF).
Year of Turbulence
Asia focus, Asia Focus Team, Published on 27/12/2021
» Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.
Cambodia starts first crude oil production
Business, Reuters, Published on 30/12/2020
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has begun extracting its first crude oil from fields in the Gulf of Thailand, in a venture between Singapore's KrisEnergy Ltd and the government, both parties said on Tuesday, bringing an end to years of delays.