The arrival of yet another international pizza brand in Phnom Penh suggests a looming war for market share is cooking. Pizza, whether corporate, Khmer-influenced or classically Italian, is a favourite food among both Cambodia’s young and the expat community and there is increasingly no shortage of businesses after their tastebuds. Anthony Galliano, American Chamber of…
The prolonged spread of Covid-19 continues to dismantle the Cambodian restaurant industry. New research from the Cambodia Restaurant Association (CRA) shows that sales have been decimated by the pandemic, dropping 50 per cent last year over 2019 and now 60 per cent lower than 2020 levels. This represents a cumulative 80 per cent drop of…
Saigon plans to extend it’s lockdown status until at least September 15 in response to sustained coronavirus threats, the municipal Party Committee said Friday. Phan Van Mai, deputy secretary of the municipal Standing Party Committee, said the southern city is expected to announce its upcoming plans to fight the coronavirus in the next two days….
Cambodia aquaculture production could experience marginal declines this year as discouraging prices and other market forces prompt farmers to reduce the amount of juvenile fish used to stock their ponds, or go as far as to temporarily halt operations, according to the Cambodian Aquaculturist Association (CAA). Chet Phirum, co-founder of CAA, which now boasts more…
Local food chain corporation United Food Group Co Ltd (UFG) has brought the US-based fast-food chain Pizza Hut to Cambodia and is set to open its first shop this month, reflecting the ongoing expansion of US businesses into the Kingdom. A subsidiary of New York-listed Yum! Brands Inc, Pizza Hut has the advantage of best-practice…
Vietnam supply chain dislocation worsens as soaring cases of Covid-19 are seeing ships back up in greater numbers along Vietnam’s southern coastline, while ports are now turning away vessels and are struggling to source available containers. Ho Chi Minh City’s Cat Lai Terminal has stopped accepting reefer cargoes through to the middle of the month…
HO CHI MINH CITY: Until recently, handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam had been a remarkable success story, however, that has recently changed as it is struggling with the Delta variant. In January 2020, once the scale of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan became clear, large outbreaks were expected to follow in neighbouring Asian…
SP Group (SP) and BCG Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bamboo Capital JSC, have formalised a joint venture (JV) to invest in rooftop solar and other renewable energy projects in Vietnam. In a press statement on Monday, SP said that it will own 49 per cent of the Vietnam JV, while the wholly-owned subsidiary of…
According to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Cambodia, the construction of the Phnom Penh (PP)-Sihanoukville Expressway is progressing smoothly and to date, the project has achieved 63% in terms of overall completion. After the completion of the above expressway project, the journey from PP to Sihanoukville is estimated to take only 2…
