Thailand’s six major airports have handled more than 141 million passengers over the past 12 months and though international travel rose by 4.4 per cent, passenger numbers on domestic routes showed a drop of 1.4 per cent, the Airports of Thailand (AOT) reported on Tuesday ...

Thai Interior Ministry and Royal Thai Police officials on 28 September joined the tenth ASEAN conference on transnational crime in Malaysia. Among issues discussed was illegal wildlife trading and drug trafficking, to reduce such problems in ASEAN. Keep reading ...

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rebuffed international calls to have her Nobel Peace Prize revoked over her failure to stop human rights abuses on the Rohingya minority. NHK spoke to her in an exclusive interview in Tokyo on October 6th. Keep reading ...

Laos’ energy minister announced last week that the country will sell energy supplied by the controversial Xayaburi Dam to Cambodia. It is already planning to sell power to Thailand, where last month a lawsuit was lodged to stop the country from buying electricity produced at ...

Cambodia imported 412,190 tons of Crude Oil in Q-1 of Y 2013, a 12% fall compared with the 471,000 tons it imported at the same period last year, the Commerce ministry’s report showed Saturday. During the January-March period this year, the country spent US$ 397-M to ...

Bomb disposal experts conducted a controlled explosion on a device discovered near the National Assembly building in Phnom Penh on Friday morning and safely removed a second explosive device, consisting of three M-79 rifle-launched grenade shells, from a park near the city’s Wat Phnom. The ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec Corp, the Asia’s largest oil refining and petrochemical enterprise, to expedite its process to build an oil refinery in Cambodia by 2018, Xinhua reported on October 15, citing a spokesman. ...

A secretary of state at the Foreign Affairs Ministry on Tuesday defended the government’s widely criticized imprisonment of 11 activists and an opposition official during a closed-door meeting with a visiting U.S. diplomat. Daniel Russel, an assistant secretary of state at the U.S. government’s Bureau of ...

The Ministry of Information will convene a meeting with the ministries of Posts and Telecommunications; and Economy and Finance, on Wednesday to review the progress of changing state analogue television broadcasts to digital. Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith on Monday chaired a meeting at the ...

On 22 May 2020, Ministry of Post and telecommunicatiOn has release an announcement On cellular service improvement. The ministry is urging the TelecommunicatiOn Regular Cambodia (TRC) to cooperate with cellular service operator On promptly implementing the existing unified feature code. ...

Discussion about hydroelectric power plants in Cambodia tends to focus on two aspects, both negative. one is an overdependence on Chinese investment, and the other is a relatively disproportionate focus on the environmental impacts of hydroelectric power. Chinese Influence Most hydroelectric power plants in Cambodia are associated ...

China made good this week on a promise that it would share its year-round hydrological data on the upper reaches of the Mekong River, via the launch of an online information-sharing platform that will keep the Kingdom aware of any future Mekong developments. The information ...

The double tax avoidance agreement (DTA) between Cambodia and Malaysia came into effect on January 1, ushering in optimism and hope in the private sector that bilateral investment will garner steam. Royal Code NS/RKM/1120/023, dated November 14, 2020, promulgated the “Law on the Approval of ...

On 06 October 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn issued a press release On His Excellency PRAK SokhOnn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn of the Kingdom of Cambodia, will participate in the ASEAN-United NatiOns Ministerial Meeting (AUMM), ...

On 11 January 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn issued a press release On outcomes of the telephOne cOnversatiOn between His Excellency PRAK SokhOnn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn of the Kingdom of Cambodia, with His Excellency ...

On 25 January 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn issued a press release On Her Excellency Dr. Adaljiza Albertina Xavier Reis Magno, Minister of Foreign Affairs and CooperatiOn of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, will pay an official visit to the Kingdom ...

On​ 17 March 2022, the Ministry of Health issued a notificatiOn On a health educatiOn campaign to jointly prevent the spread of COVID-19.The ministry will cOnduct a health educatiOn campaign to jointly prevent spread of COVID-19,  especially  OmicrOn, On 22 March 2022 in KampOng Speu ...

Water levels along the Hau River, a Mekong branch, rose to 2.27 meters, breaking the 2019 record and plunging Can Tho City in chaos. Commuters drive through floodwaters on Nguyen Trai Street in Can Tho’s downtown district of Ninh Kieu at 9 p.m. on Wednesday. Tides on ...

The water level in the Mekong river has dropped quickly and was only about 1.90 metres deep in this northeastern border province on Monday, the lowest this year. The lack of water is being blamed on the many dams upstream in China, and this year’s poor ...

Consisting of five separate booklets, the World Drug Report 2021 provides an in-depth analysis of the global drug markets and paints a comprehensive picture of the measurable effects and potential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the world drug problem. The World Drug Report 2021 is aimed not only at ...