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 ...

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 ...

Best known for casinos catering to Thais and small-time trade, the border town is now looking to lure Thai and Japanese manufacturers with promises of cheap labour Economic activity in Cambodia’s ...

Poipet is known for being a major casino hub and the biggest land crossing between the two countries Thailand says it has bombed a "logistics centre" near the Cambodian town of Poipet, known for being ...

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 ...

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 ...