Rights groups have called on the government to increase tax rates for logging companies amid the latest domestic revenue figures. According to the Ministry for Agriculture, forestry and Fisheries, timber exports produced $9.4 million in government tax revenue during the first half of the year, up ...

Stakeholders are concerned about the legitimacy of the multinational approval process for Laos’ Luangprabang hydropower project, after recommendations to lower the environmental impact were raised, but few were accepted during a meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) last week in Vientiane.The meeting was held ...

The Fifth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) will focus on the theme, ‘TransFormations towards sustainable and resilient societies’. In addition to discussing the theme of the July 2018 meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2018) as it relates to regional and ...

An international team of earth scientists has linked the establishment of the Mekong River to a period of major intensification of the Asian monsoon during the middle Miocene, about 17 million years ago, findings that supplant the assumption that the river incised in response to ...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance informs the public and concerned individuals of the new tax rates on salary in compliance with the new article 47 of the Law on Taxation, which has been carried out from January 2015 onwards. ...

New regulations to please the European Union (EU) will not lead to sustainable fishing, a major commercial trawler association said on Tuesday (April, 10) “Fishermen are now unhappy with fishing regulations prescribed by authorities. These regulations have put us in a tough situation. The practices ...

No new health insurance cards will be issued from 2019, according to Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI). Nguyễn Hoàng Phương, deputy director of the Information Technology Centre at VSI, said at a press conference on Wednesday that the VSI system would continue to update participants’ data without the ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on February 16 signed an agreement to begin a project that will directly support 10,000 of the most vulnerable people affected by the economic fall-out from Covid-19 in Siem Reap ...

The People’s Court of central Quang Binh province on August 28 handed a death sentence to a Laos national who stood trial for trafficking 308.6 kg of methamphetamine in Vietnam.The defendant is Xeng Vang, born in August 6, 1995, and residing in Laos’ Bolikhamsai province.According ...

WASHINGTON, December 2, 2019 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved $22.5 milliON in additiONal funding for the Poverty ReductiON Fund, ONe of the Lao PDR Government’s main vehicles to address rural poverty.The additiONal funding will support agriculture-related activities under the government’s NatiONal ...

China International Travel Service Group (CITS) will open a duty-free shop (DFS) in Cambodia next month, the first non-airport DFS in the country, it announced on Sunday. ...

The Ministry of Tourism today reported that over 500,000 tourists visited resorts throughout the country during the first two days of the Khmer New Year holidays. On Tuesday, more than 2770,000 people checked into hotspots registering an 18.75 percent increase compared to August 17. ...

The number of flights between New Zealand and Southeast Asia is set to grow with the approval of New air services agreements with the Philippines and Cambodia, Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee said Wednesday. “These agreements help provide New Zealanders with better access to Southeast Asia, providing ...

Construction of a new airport that will serve Phnom Penh is on track and could be completed as early as 2023, the developer said. Pung Kheav Se, chairman of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), the company behind the project, said they are now building ...

Community representatives from Indonesia and the Philippines warned Cambodia yesterday of the potential human cost that an influx of mining companies could bring to the country. As private companies scour the land for minerals, with some set to begin extraction within a few years, Cambodia could ...

An official at the Ministry of Justice says he hopes a new law on information access will help improve the country’s attitude toward its judiciary, which is widely seen as politically biased and corrupt. ...

Mobile phone technology could be an effective means to promote improved health practices among Cambodia’s female entertainment workers and help curb the spread of HIV, according to a new study conducted by the organisation KHANA and the Center for Global Health Research at Touro University ...

Last month a study conducted by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia painted a bleak picture for Cambodia’s ailing healthcare system. While acknowledging progress made in the field of delivering quality healthcare and the government’s apparent commitment to its universal access, the ...

The World Bank approved a US$400 million interest-free loan to provide financing and technical assistance to help bring electricity to more than 6.2 million people in Myanmar, the bank announced on 17 September. The loan will support Myanmar’s National Electrification Plan and was granted by the ...

A major exam for students this year included tighter security in order to prevent widespread cheating, but critics say more needs to be done to improve Cambodia’s education system. ...