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This is what we have received from our Visa applicant Rauno Korhonen, Sweden. He is kind enough to share with us his travel tips too

“Air asia flies also to Cambodia from Bangkok. You only mentioned Bangkok air and Thai Airways. Air Asia is the cheapest flight.”

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Travellers arriving at Siem Reap internation airport

Check and validate your Visa application before travel to Cambodia. This new service is brought to you by Cambodiaonarrival.com. It helps you to find the best way to apply your Travel Visa, the safer and quicker way! Plus, you get free travel guidebooks for both Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Apply Now!

e-Visa project was first launched in year 2006. The original Team is a web design company in Malaysia, who also donated funds to build schools in Cambodia. The team worked hard day and night to improve, to fund, to market and to support the system till it became a valid and trustworthy site and received overwhelming feedback from customers, friends and even other web developers.

For 30 months , the Team had built the system, had paid employees in Malaysia and Cambodia to maintain the system, had paid for the internet connections & PCs, had even travelled to Cambodia to set up the network and to do marketing and admin. All these work were invested with the agreement for eventual payment when it becomes profitable. However, just as the system became profitable, the system was hijacked with Mr Adrian Phang as the mastermind.

The original e-Visa website. The original service provider uploaded the original version at http://www.cambodiaonarrival.com in order for travelers to do a side-by-side compare of old & new website.

The project was originally created by people at 1.com.my

Two Kumomo Schools built in Cambodia by 1.com.my

Mike praised on the original website

Then comes the evils!

On the 28th of June 2008, 3 culprits hijacked the Cambodia e-Visa website. However as expected, the culprits being non dedicated and money-faced, could not maintain the system well enough and had caused a lot of problems to existing e-Visa holder and new applicants.

New service provider launched their website by illegally infringing the original e-Visa website

The Team is suing Mr. TY Thong from GoVoice Sdn Bhd, Mr. Adrian Phang from Green Solutions Technologies Sdn Bhd and HE HONG Panharith, General Inspector of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation. Read the court case document.

The evils returned

There are no clues where the money goes if you pay your Visa fee online. It is skeptical now as the system is now managed by a bunch of crooks.

It gets even more murky now. The new website is down most of the time. The service provider changed the header to cover their sin of infringement. The site is a mess now if you compare it with the original site.

The new service provider claimed that it is an upgrade. We DOUBT… :)

Original e-Visa website Vs New e-Visa website

New e-Visa website having problem most of the time

Check this out, they don’t even bother to change this picture. The girl is a former team member from the Team. Again, another proof that the current service provider is a crook.

Former team in 1.com.my

Please do not apply Cambodia e-Visa until the justice prevails.

Screenshot taken from Wikitravel

The original provider of the e-Visa service was kicked out in murky circumstances, and their site now rails against the evils of the new provider. However, travellers who have obtained e-Visas with the new system report no problems using them.

Posted in Wikitravel Cambodia.

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See what are they complaining about the current Cambodia e-Visa system below.

I am a travel agent staff. I applied the Cambodia E-VISA for my clients on line. First time, I filled up the application for 5 people and wait for payment. But the Web didn’t work. So, I proceed open another new Web to apply an other 5-people. (I have 20 VISAs need to apply) After i finished and checked the info, It showed correct, so I payed. But when I check the aprroved VISA’s details, I find that the approved visa’s details are confused with that i filled up on the first time. That is say. the approved VISA’s details are all wrong(include the photo,name, passport No.etc). and i payed.

Hello! Me and my friends are visiting Cambodia next week! I got my e-visa few weeks ago, but my friends did´nt! Someone is charged my credit card already (I applied all visas)! What I have to do to get visas or get money back???

I am in Ningbo,China. I want to apply Cambodia E visa, but can not login your website http://evisa.mfaic.gov.kh, kindly help!

Besides, the news on Cambodia e-Visa system infringement can also be found in Wikitravel under Cambodia Visa section.

Therefore, tourists to Cambodia are strongly recommended not to apply for e-Visa for the time being. As an alternative, on arrival visa can be easily obtained at price USD20.

In rural Cambodia, hundreds of villages are still lack of a functional primary and secondary school.The construction cost of a rural school is $13,000. To find out more about how you can help, please visit CambodiaSchools.com.

The development of bio-diesel produced from Jatropha curcas, a plant native to Cambodia, has drawn attention from investors, said Sat Samy, deputy secretary of state for the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy during a workshop on Cambodian bio-diesel held recently in Phnom Penh.

Bio-energy industries are present in a number of countries, said Secretary of State for Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy Ith Praing, adding that European Community (EC) countries will increase their use of bio-fuels from 15 percent to 20 percent of the total by 2020 with the intention of reducing green gas emissions.

Sat Samy told Rasmei Kampuhea that bio-diesel from Jatropa oil has many benefits; providing cheap fuel for generators, a renewable source of revenue for the economy and decreasing Cambodia’s reliance on fuel imports. Bio-fuel also promotes the use of agricultural land for cash crops, he said, as well as ensuring a clean environment, as bio-fuel is far less polluting than fossil fuels.

The industry is in its infancy in Cambodia, said the secretary of state, adding that ten firms have started production or shown interest in Jatropha cultivation so far.

A recent study showed 3,500 Jatropha trees can be grown per hectare, producing 3,000 liters of oil annually after three years.

Some Jatropha oil, produced by smallholders, is already available in Cambodia, priced at 2,300 riel (about US$0.57) per liter. Firms are buying Jatropha seeds for 400 riel (about US$0.10) per kilogram, said the deputy secretary of state, adding that many seeds have been sold in Kampong Chhnang, Prey Veng, and Kampong Speu.