POIPET, Cambodia, April 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This April, experience the next level of Songkran celebration at the HEAVEN747 Songkran Festival 2025 — the first-ever Songkran Festival hosted aboard a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover casinos and travel in Asia. Thai tourists account for 95% of Poipet’s customers, so it caters to them – Cambodian-born ...

POIPET, Cambodia, April 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The highly anticipated Heaven747 Songkran Festival 2025 made history with the world's first Songkran Festival held aboard a Boeing 747 aircraft. Over ...

A deadly fire swept through a Cambodian casino hotel on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and injuring at least 60. Located in Poipet, a gambling town along the border of Thailand, the 17-story ...

Chinese people are beginning to flock to the Cambodian border town of Poipet, which has become the country’s second most popular gambling destination after the coastal city of Sihanoukville. There is ...

The repaired rail link between Aranyaprathet and Poipet was reopened on Monday, 46 years after it was closed by a civil war that destroyed Cambodia's railway infrastructure. Speaking at the opening ...

Cambodia said Thailand’s military on Thursday bombed the casino town of Poipet, a major crossing between the two nations, as foreign powers pressured them to halt reignited border clashes. Thai forces ...

Seeking respite: Displaced Thais resting at an evacuation centre in Surin province, Thailand. — AP THE country is working out how to repatriate up to 6,000 citizens unable to return home through a ...

It is worth noting that border fighting resumed between Cambodia and Thailand, with each nation blaming the other for starting the fight, claiming self-defence. Thai forces "dropped 2 bombs in the ...

Thailand says Cambodia is violating international human rights law by preventing up to 7,000 Thai nationals in the Poipet border town from returning home despite a prior commitment to reopen the ...