City bomb horror in Bangkok
Central Bangkok descended into chaos on evening of 17 August when a bomb exploded at Ratchaprasong intersection, killing 20 people, including three foreigners, and injuring at least 125. The explosion occurred about 7pm near the Brahmin statue at the Erawan Shrine on the intersection packed with evening rush-hour ...
Deal struck to reduce plastics use
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) is collaborating with food delivery service providers to reduce the use of single-use plastics.The two sides signed an agreement on Wednesday aimed at cutting down on discarded single-use plastic items.Keep reading ...
Apinya Wipatayotin
Protest held against planned dam in Phatthalung
A group of about 150 “photographers” on Sunday (Oct 7) morning gathered on the bridge across Khlong Pak Pra canal in Khuan Khanun district of this southern province in a symbolic protest against the Royal Irrigation Department’s plan to build a dam across the canal. ...
Assawin Pakkawan
FDA testing foods in Pyin Oo Lwin
The Food and Drug Administration in Mandalay is testing jams and various other food items produced in Pyin Oo Lwin township, Mandalay Region, to ensure safety and raise awareness on cleanliness among consumers. The tests conducted by the Pyin Oo Lwin township administration, city development ...
Thailand’s Energy Review Delays Launch of Controversial Mekong Dam
A major energy review by Thailand has delayed the launch of a controversial dam on the Mekong. This could lead to further questions about future hydropower projects along the river. The Chinese-backed Pak Beng dam in Laos was supposed to be the third dam under construction ...
Laos, Thailand review progress in worker legalisation
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Lao and Thai labour authorities met in Bangkok, Thailand, last week to review the results of ongoing operations on labour cooperation.The two nations have been collaborating over the past two years by encouraging legal employment in each country under the “Agreement ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Thailand Research Expo 2019 held in Bangkok
Research is an important factor in national development. And to raise public awareness on research, the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) is organizing Thailand Research Expo 2019. Here, researchers can present their work on technology and innovation to inspire other sectors to move forward ...
Praphorn Praphornkul
Vietnam’s Mekong quandary: settling the sediment issue
As the biggest loser, Vietnam has to use its influence to limit dam damage on Mekong Delta, says Mekong specialist Richard Cronin. []Already, upstream dams in China and on major Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) tributaries in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam have trapped a major share of ...
Poor countries face $168 billion interest bill due to climate change
Poor countries could have to pay up to $168 billion more in interest over the next decade as extreme weather events brought on by climate change affect their credit ratings, a study said on Monday.[]Rice plantations in Vietnam are vulnerable to rising sea levels.Keep reading ...
Species in ‘dramatic decline’ in east: WWF
Multiple animal species are in “dramatic decline” on Cambodia’s Eastern Plains as a result of habitat loss, road incursion, insufficient law enforcement and poaching, the World Wildlife Fund said in a statement on 7 June. According to villagers in various provinces, Cambodians hunt a diverse range ...
Fed’s interest rate hike could affect Vietnam’s budget balance
The likely move by the United States Federal Reserve System on further hiking the interest rate and the ongoing trade war between the United States and China could have an adverse impact on Vietnam’s State budget balance and public and national debts in the coming ...
SGT Reporter
Vietnam ranks sixth in Global Climate Risk Index
According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2020 (CRI) report announced at the ongoing 25th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Madrid, Spain, Vietnam has worsened from 9th spot in the CRI 2019, which reviewed 1998 to 2017, to 6th in ...
Seminar to discuss putting ESG commitments into action
A seminar is scheduled to take place in Hanoi on November 9 to discuss the implementation of commitments on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) components and putting them into action. The event, to be held by English language daily Viet Nam News, will see the participation ...
China’s Six Belt and Road Projects in Myanmar to Watch in 2019
The Myanmar government recently agreed to begin work on key projects under the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) agreement which is part of Chinese’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. Experts, including voices from the World Bank, have pointed out that Myanmar’s growth will largely depend on ...
China ‘ready to amend’ Mekong plan
China has acknowledged concerns about the impacts on people’s livelihoods of the Mekong River navigation channel improvement project, while indicating the possibility of amending or even cancelling the project.[] Thai Foreign Affairs Minister Don Pramudwinai yesterday said he had discussed the project with Chinese authorities ...
PRATCH RUJIVANAROM
Notification of the World Cleanup Day
On 12 September 2018, the Ministry of EnvirOnment informs the World Cleanup Day which will be held On September 15, 2018 from 6:30 am to 11:30 pm. The Ministry of EnvirOnment collaborates with the Ministry of EducatiOn, Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Tourism, Let’s Do ...
Ministry of Environment
Commune Chief Collectors’ Scam Follows Election
The commune election had only just ended on Sunday when the scam had started. on Tuesday, a well-dressed man claiming to be the brother of one of Phnom Penh’s newly reelected commune chiefs visited a business to present an invitation. It was convincing: The father of the ...
Tai Yang boss refutes name change allegations
Garment worker Ba Chhorvorn stands in the sweltering heat inside the small concrete brick room she calls home in Kandal province. Across the road is her workplace, a supplier to Levi’s and Gap, which her boss describes as the “five-star hotel of garment factories”. Worlds apart but ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071757465/National-news/tai-yang-protest.html
Dozens sentenced in forest-clearing ring
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced 28 people – including several government officials – to between two and five years in jail on charges of clearing state-protected flooded mangrove forest in Kampong Thom province in July of 2012. Presiding Judge Keo Mony said that Cheath Sivutha, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013011860868/National/dozens-sentenced-in-forest-clearing-ring.html
Police Investigation Into Robbery-Shootings Yields No Suspects
Police have yet to identify any suspects in a pair of vicious robbery-shootings in Phnom Penh late last month that left an American expatriate and a Japanese tourist hospitalized with gunshot wounds, police said Monday. At about 7 p.m. on September 27, American construction consultant Maurice ...
Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-investigation-into-robbery-shootings-yields-no-suspects-44576/