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Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Thailand reached $3.16 billion in the first nine months – an increase of 14.08 per cent year-on-year.

 

Imports to Cambodia were worth $2.65 billion, representing a 19.26 per cent increase in contrast with exports to Thailand that was valued at merely $543.26 million or a 6.2 per cent drop.

 

“Border trade with Cambodia is growing well,” director-general of the Foreign Trade department in Thailand Adul Chotinisakorn told the Bangkok Post. He added that imports to Cambodia soared by 34 per cent on the export of beverages last month.

 

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I have just experienced this travelling at a painfully slow "snail's pace" between Poipet and Battambang on the main route 5 clogged with all sorts of container and heavy goods lorries. It took 2 1/2 hours in a taxi to travel around 130 kilometers.