The Ministry of Culture on Tuesday introduced the country’s first strategic cultural policy, an ambitious plan that includes setting up provincial cultural centers, launching arts education in schools, holding annual cultural events and promoting individual artists. Speaking to an audience that included representatives from the leading ...

The electoral reform working groups from the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP resumed talks Monday after canceling their meetings last week, with officials from both parties again defending their controversial push to ban NGOs from “insulting” parties during election campaigns. ...

Negotiators from 16 Asia-Pacific countries ended their eighth round of talks to promote a deal that would free up their trade early Sunday, falling short of setting any ambitious goal of eliminating tariffs. ...

On 11 April 2022, the Ministry of EcOnomy and Finance issued a press release On the official disseminatiOn and launch of “Master Plan for MOndulkiri Tourism Development 2021-2035”. Despite the changes caused by the COVID-19 crisis On the regiOnal and global tourism structure, the Royal ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Members of the Young Entrepreneurs Association of Laos (YEAL) have called on the Lao Front for National Development to urge the government to remove barriers to doing business and address long-standing issues.Several difficulties routinely encountered by association members include access to ...

Fuel smuggling is on the rise in Vietnamese waters bordering Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand recently, partly due to the discrepancy between selling prices in Vietnam and neighbouring countries, according to the Vietnamese coastguard.Colonel Tran Văn Nam, head of the Legal Department at the Maritime Police ...

Economists and the private sector are confident that the Lao economy has a good chance of achieving the expectations set for 2017 despite global uncertainties, but urge more effective management of the macroeconomy, the price of goods, and improvement of the investment and business climate. ...

If Information Minister Khieu Kanharith is any indication, even the government is tiring of state television. Mr. Kanharith announced on Facebook on Wednesday that he had personally ordered the state-run TVK channel to stop broadcasting the comings and goings of state officials on foreign excursions. Mr. ...

Smoke billowed over Phnom Penh International Airport and people lay on the grass verges near an aircraft simulator on Friday as hundreds of rescue service personnel and firefighters took part in the airport’s fourth-ever full-scale emergency exercise. Hundreds of soldiers and police, as well as actors ...

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Monday warned that allegedly farmed python skins originating from Cambodia could in fact have been harvested in the wild, and called for surveys to determine the scale and impact of possible python hunting in the ...

A Cambodian national who was allegedly arrested on Thursday alongside dozens of Montagnard asylum seekers remained missing yesterday, while those sent back to Vietnam were reportedly abused by authorities for their attempted escape. forty-two-year-old Dy Heun, an ethnic Jarai from Ratanakkiri province, was officially reported missing ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The project includes the construction of a basin to store water for agricultural purposes and an artesian well, and installation of electric lines.The Lao Front for National Development (LFND), the Phongsavanh Group and the LFND unit in Xaysomboun provincial organised a ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Many fun and interesting activities are planned for the upcoming 25th anniversary celebration of the First Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge, taking place on and around the bridge over April 26-27.Event organisers say the activities include an almsgiving ceremony involving Buddhist monks, a ...

On 27 February 2020, the ArbitratiOn Council has posted a press release On receiving the additiOnal fund from Sweden and the United States Agency for InternatiOnal Development (USAID) to enhance Cambodia’s labour dispute resolutiOn services. According to the press, approximately 1.5 milliOn USD has been ...

The National Assembly may have approved the contentious Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO), but some young people are still urging the government to scrap it. ...

Testing on anxious villagers began in earnest yesterday as Health Ministry officials arrived in Peam, the Kandal province village recently discovered to have 14 confirmed HIV diagnoses. ...

The Interior Ministry’s anti-drug police department has cracked down on 858 drug-related cases in the first eleven months of this year, up 28 percent over the same period last year, Cambodian National Police said on its website Tuesday.​​ ...

Cambodia lacks effective mechanisms to protect its citizens working both as legal and undocumented migrants abroad, where such workers also face insufficient protection from the countries that receive them, according to two new reports published last week. ...

Oil prices on Tuesday resumed their slide from the previous session, hit by concerns that a political rift between Qatar and several Arab states would undermine an OPEC-led push to tighten the market. Persistent gains in U.S. production also dragged on benchmark crude prices, traders ...