E-Commerce Surges In Cambodia

[geovalin]

Khmer Times/Un Raksmey and Igor Kossov

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – As Internet use spreads across Cambodia, e-commerce outlets are mushrooming.

Some are online shopping centers like MAIO Mall, which offers a plethora of functions, including lending and booking services. Others, like Shop168, link brick-and-mortar stores with customers via web portal and delivery services. Others, like Mall 855, enable people to sell goods to one another.

“Online commerce is now becoming very popular - many companies are now starting to use online sales,” said Chey Tech, an independent internet analyst.

Growing Internet Access

According to the Telecommunications Regulator of Cambodia, the number of internet users has reached 5 million, or about one third of the population in 2014. In April, Cambodian Minister of Posts and Telecommunication Prak Sokhonn said that he expects penetration to reach 9.5 million people by 2020.

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[sammygood]

a new hub for some more farangs to go to , once they governement gets strickt on digital nomads