Tag: Cambodia
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Cambodian travellers can access Emirates’ super innovative check-in in Dubai
Emirates has introduced Home Check-in, a new service which allows customers to check in for their flights from anywhere in Dubai – including travellers from Cambodia who have been staying or stopping over. With this service, an Emirates check-in agent will arrive at the preferred location anywhere in Dubai to weigh and tag your bags…
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Uber users from Cambodia have two weeks after Grab merges with Uber in Southeast Asia
According to today’s update on Grab website, the Singapore-based technology company has merged with Uber in Cambodia and Southeast Asia, leaving Cambodian Uber users and other users two weeks to migrate to the Grab app which be found on Playstore and Appstore. Meanwhile, Uber drivers and other partners of Uber will also have to sign…
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Looking for a good coffee seller in Phnom Penh?
Coffee is probably one of the oldest drinks in the world, and while Cambodians have started to consume more and more coffee, many still look for a good supplier or seller in town. There’s also so much news about fake coffee out there that scares a lot of Cambodian coffee drinkers into buying coffee with…
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10 Cambodian Movies to Watch in 2018
In the past 5 years, Cambodian films have reached a new height, hit international cinemas, and attracted a great deal of attention from international audiences. Cambodian directors and producers are on the move to set a new stage for Cambodia talents to shine and show the world that it is certainly very possible to find…
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Costco-like store open in Phnom Penh this week
Throngs of Phnom Penh residents flocked to Makro today. When in Phnom Penh’s writer Sotheavy Nou said: “It’s a Thai company, but the products are all in Khmer and with riels. And, I would suggest coming on a week day because it’s so crowded that people who started to line up at noon, are still…
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Embassies open to visitors to celebrate Heritage Day in Phnom Penh
Now the public who are enthusiastic about some Cambodian heritage bits can visit the a few embassies in Phnom Penh which open gates to visitors this year on Saturday 30, September on the occasion of the “Heritage Day”. This annual event gives the public the opportunity to visit buildings and places usually closed to the public or…
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Grab has launched private beta in Phnom Penh
Grab has launched their private beta in Phnom Penh and Uber is yesterday’s news. On Sunday, after months of speculation, screenshots of Grab’s UI started to surface within Cambodia’s Facebook community. The images, which bear an uncanny resemblance to literally every other ride-hailing application in Phnom Penh, followed a relatively quiet recruiting campaign launched by…
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Too cute for words (short video)
When your day doesn’t feel right, you have something cute to lean onto. Cambofarm is a business belonging to a Cambodian couple, Malen and Vannarin, who love pets, and as they say, rabbits breed like rabbits. They decided to leave their full time jobs, and set up a farm in their home place in Chak…
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Entertainment apps flock to Phnom Penh
If you follow the current news headlines in Phnom Penh/Cambodia right now, you might have come across a few about Cambodia’s first entertainment app, Soyo (launched in July), and a couple of others such as JaikonTV (July) as well as Iflix (apparently July) after Netflix launched worldwide including in Cambodia 18 months ago. What are…
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Cambodians can now pay with phone credit and that’s a big deal
No credit card, no problem! Pay with Cellcard Main balance is now a thing and it’s a pretty big deal for a country that’s been struggling with online payments. Okay, so the name of the service is a mouthful, but the concept is actually quite easy: you can now pay for things online using your…