As Thailand will assume the ASEAN Chairmanship next year, let’s take a look at the country’s mission to host important meetings at various levels.Keep watching ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior of the Kingdom of Thailand will co-organise a meeting between Thai envoys to neighbouring countries and Border Provincial Governors under the theme “Synergised efForts to enhance security, prosperity, and sustainable development in the Border ...

VIENTIANE, LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (14 September 2018) — The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved an additional financing of $30.5 million, in the form of a grant, to help the government improve water supply and sanitation in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic ...

(KPL) The government of Japan has provided a grant worth US$ 292,195 to support income generation of people with disabilities in the Lao PDR. The grant extended at this time will fund activities in the first year of the two-year project.More ...

‘Like red ants on a log floating downstream each certain it is controlling the direction of the flow.” That was the acute observation of a coarse-skinned farmer staring at the TV screen at a small coffee shop in a 100-year-old market in Suphan Buri province ...

Thailand will host the upcoming 8th ACMECS Summit on 15-16 June 2018 in Bangkok and will kick-start with the ‘ACMECS CEO Forum’ under the theme “Connecting Our Future: Enhancing ACMECS Cooperation and Integration” on 15 June 2018 at 9.00 hours at Shangri-La Hotel.Keep reading ...

When Asean organises big meetings, the tendency for the host is to talk up a brouhaha. So it goes with the 34th Asean summit under Thailand’s rotating chairmanship this year. By year’s end, several hundred Asean-related meetings will have taken place, highlighted by the final ...

For Seng Voleak, a 23-year-old bank employee in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, her commute home has become easier thanks to buses donated by China.Voleak rides the city bus twice a month to travel from where she lives in central Phnom Penh to the city’s western suburb, ...

Cooperation among three major continents where illicit wildlife trades and trafficking are still rampant is being forged in an attempt to suppress the activities that are now seen crossing from countries in Africa to Asia.Some leading anti-wildlife trafficking experts and law enforcers from 30 countries ...

Thailand has made scant progress over the past three decades in spreading power and national budgets outside of the capital Bangkok, a core issue behind the nation’s yawning wealth divide. But now there is a slim hope that the decentralization process has begun, and it has ...

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday threw his full support behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), saying it was in line with Asean principles and goals. In his speech at the Belt and Road Forum For International Cooperation, the Thai premier said China’s ambitious ...

Can Thailand handle the upcoming general election and also chair Asean in the same year? This was a question posed by Asean colleagues last year to Thai officials during a meeting of the 10-member bloc, suggesting a lack of confidence in the Kingdom’s ability to carry ...

Leaders of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries and Japan decided to lift the two sides’ co-operation to a strategic partnership at the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting in Tokyo yesterday (Oct 9).Keep reading ...

Government leaders at all levels have been urged to prioritise the implementation of effective measures to solve malnutrition in Laos, according to a leading official. Speaking at the 3rd National Nutrition Committee Meeting and the 1st Nutrition Forum, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and ...

South Korean ambassador to Cambodia Park Heung-kyeong is highly optimistic that the new Cambodian investment law and free trade agreement (FTA) signed between the two countries would be important factors in enhancing bilateral trade and encouraging more direct investment flows from South Korea to the ...

Following Internews’ 2021 class for ODC on Google Analytics, further Advanced Google Analytics training was developed for the third year of participation in the Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) project. Eight ODC team members joined the training facilitated by Elshad Gojayev of Internews’ ...

International development partners have agreed to continue supporting disabled people’s organisations in Laos through capacity building for the authorities and organisational capacity, promoting equity and participation among disabled people. The signing of Memorandums of Understanding on the implementation of two disability projects took place on 30 ...

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) said on Wednesday it has embarked on a feasibility study – Project of Mine Action for Human Development Programme in Cambodia – to advance community development in villages that have been deemed mine-free. ...

Four years after Prime Minister Hun Sen personally outlawed the practice of Cambodian women traveling to Malaysia to work as domestic servants, the two countries have agreed to restart the maid trade, according to a statement released by the Labor Ministry on Thursday. ...

On​ 7 August  2015, the Royal Government of Cambodia released an announcement to inform the public that from 24 July to 7 August 2017, the Ministry of Labor in Thailand has:1). Received letters from 195,627 Thai employers.2). Extracted data from 694,629 illegal migrant workers, of ...