New year revelry returns to Thai streets as tourism rebounds
Tens of thousands of revellers, including hordes of foreign tourists sporting floral shirts and plastic water guns, descended on the streets of Bangkok on Thursday for the biggest traditional new year gathering since the pandemic.Festivities for Songkran, a much-loved Thai festival sometimes described as the ...
Tradition aplenty over Lao New Year
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – It is out with the old and in with the new for many Lao people right now as preparations get underway for the annual fun and festivities of Pi Mai Lao (Lao new Year) over April 14-16.Pi Mai is arguably the ...
Visith Teppalath
Restructure economy to boost new firms: official
Favourable conditions are needed to increase the number of new businesses and startups in order to realise the target of 1 million enterprises by 2020, an official has said.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Japan, Mekong leaders to adopt new cooperation strategy in Oct.
The leaders of Japan and five Southeast Asian countries along the Mekong River, when they meet in Tokyo next month, plan to adopt a new strategy that is more relevant in the current regional and global situation. Keep reading ...
In Myanmar, a rising exodus but no trafficking arrests
Tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled Rakhine since the start of the year, joining perilous journeys on the boats of human traffickers through the Bay of Bengal. But local officials say no one has been arrested for trafficking in the Myanmar state that supplies the ...
Worker registration centres open on border
Three border provinces with Cambodia opened offices to document Cambodian workers entering Thailand on Thursday, to combat human trafficking and illegal labour, with a fourth to open on Monday. Three new one-stop centres were opened at the border in Sa Kaeo, Chanthaburi and Trat provinces, to issue temporary ...
Wassana Nanuam and Nopparat Kingkaew
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/417526/registration-centres-for-cambodians-open-at-border
Enhanced political trust key for Mekong countries to cope with challenges: Premier Li
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang urged a closer connection and stronger political mutual trust among Mekong countries amid challenges, including the uncertain world economy and the still rampant COVID-19 pandemic at the 7th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Leaders’ Summit held on Thursday via video conference. Experts ...
Hu Yuwei and Wan Lin
Cambodian Trade Union warns protest to demand release of arrested members
Cambodian Free Trade Union of Workers (FTU) warned Tuesday to stage a protest if the authority does not release its eight members who were arrested by police on Monday during a demonstration at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory, a union leader said. FTU’s president Chea Mony ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-06/04/c_132430572.htm
Gov't Approves Nearly $500M in Investments
Cambodia approved a total of $479.68 million in new investment projects between January and June with more than 70 new ventures in the pipeline, according to date released yesterday by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). Investments in the garment sector continued to dominate new investments, comprising 49 of ...
WHO eyes new TB test regime for Kingdom
A quicker diagnosis and a shorter and cheaper course of treatment for multidrug-resistant TB patients in Cambodia could soon be on the horizon. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/who-eyes-new-tb-test-regime-kingdom
Families with HIV receive support
National Centre for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD (NCHADS) deputy director Hor Bun Leng told The Post on December 7 that the Council of Ministers, in a letter dated February 21 last year, determined people living with HIV to be a vulnerable group. This entitles them ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-hiv-receive-support
Vietnamese, Lao provinces reinforce ties in forest management, protection
The forest protection bodies of Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien – Hue and Laos’s southern province of Sekong have signed a cooperation deal to promote forest management and protection, natural resource conservation, and forest produce management along the shared borderline. The document was inked in ...
Authorities charge Chinese man with illegally transporting Cambodians
Cambodian human trafficking authorities have charged a Chinese national with attempting to illegally transport 18 men to work in China in what one government official said was the first such case of trafficking Cambodian men to the country. Anti-human trafficking police, who are part of the ...
Water shortages in upper Myanmar
Kyar Kone Te Tike is a small town in Magwe division in central Myanmar, about 19 miles away from the Magwe Natmauk Road. Daw Mar Oo has lived here all of her life. Come summertime, finding drinking water is always a struggle. There are three small hand-dug ...
AUNG PHAY KYI SOE
Feature: China-Laos joint poverty alleviation project transforms Lao hilly village
VIENTIANE, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) — Some two hours’ drive on bumpy roads to the north from Laos’ capital Vientiane lies the village Ban Xor of Sangthong district, settled among the hills.Among the 407 households, or 2,007 residents in the village, half live in poverty with ...
Yurou
New equipment to ease business registration in Laos
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – It will now be easier for business operators in Laos, especially in seven provinces, to register their firms following the installation of modern equipment at business registration points.The equipment, worth more than 680 million kip, was handed over to the Enterprise ...
Souksamai Boulom
China funds poverty reduction in Laos
The Chinese government has agreed to provide grant funding of over 34 billion kip (over 33 million Yuan) to address poverty reduction in Laos, especially in outlying areas of the capital Vientiane and rural areas of Luang Prabang province. The grant is part of the Pilot ...
Experts make case for more people to be vaccinated against dengue
Thai Medical experts have highlighted the efficacy and safety of Thailand’s first dengue vaccine. The dengue vaccine registration last October made Thailand one of 14 countries using a vaccine for dengue. President of the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Society of Asia, Dr Usa Thisyakorn, noted on March ...
Disaster risk reduction partnership planning 2025-2030 relevant to Vietnam's priorities: UNDP Resident Coordinator
The disaster risk reduction partnership’s plan for 2025-2030 will be developed in accordance with the Government of Vietnam’s priorities on natural disaster prevention as well as in line with the strategic goals of all partners, Pauline Tamesis, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Vietnam ...
Signing of Record of Discussion on “The Project for Water and Sanitation Improvement Preventing Covid-19”
On 11 October 2021, the Japan InternatiOnal CooperatiOn Agency issued a press release On Signing of Record of DiscussiOn On “The Project for Water and SanitatiOn Improvement Preventing Covid-19”.Siem Reap Water Supply Authority (SRWSA) and Japan InternatiOnal CooperatiOn Agency (JICA) Cambodia Office would like to ...
Japan International Cooperation Agency