Mekong level to drop as China begins power grid maintenance
Water levels along the Mekong River are likely to drop by about 1.2 meters between January 5 and 24 due to power grid maintenance in China.The outflow from the Jinghong hydropower dam in China’s Yunnan province is dropping, leading to dwindling water levels in the ...
Viet Anh
Deal to revive coffee industry
A strategic agreement to develop the Buôn Ma Thuột coffee brand is expected to revive the country’s coffee industry, which needs to replace thousands of old, unproductive trees on farms in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk. The agreement between Bình Điền Fertilizer Joint-Stock ...
Mekong Ganga Cooperation meet discusses draft action plan
A key meeting of the Mekong Ganga Cooperation was held here on Tuesday as member states reviewed the progress made under the initiative and deliberated on a draft action plan to be adopted at the ministerial meeting next month. The Mekong–Ganga Cooperation (MGC) was established in ...
Anti-trafficking police to take over Suphan Buri gang-rape investigation
The Anti-Human Trafficking Division has taken over a case in which a 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped at a gaming cafe in Suphan Buri province. The alleged sexual attack took place last November. But local police have to date pressed charges against just one suspect. ...
Experts urge actions to address low fertility rate
An international policy consultation workshop held in Hanoi on August 28 sounded the alarm on Vietnam’s declining fertility rate, with experts highlighting the linkage between education level, economic conditions and birth rates.The hybrid event, co-hosted by the Ministry of Health’s Vietnam Population Authority (VPA) and ...
Every Stunted Child Deprived In Three Or More Areas Of Well-Being
(KPL) The report “Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis on Stunting among children under 5 years, Lao PDR” released on Jun 20 indicates that at both national and provincial levels, every stunted child in the Lao PDR is also deprived in three or more areas of well-being, ...
First Vietnamese mango export to the US
The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has become the first locality in Vietnam to export mangoes to the US, according to an announcement on April 18.Nguyen Thi Hong Thu, director of Chanh Thu Fruits Import and Export Ltd Co, said the company shipped the first ...
UNDP helps Vietnam develop grassroots telemedicine
Grassroots telemedicine solution using 4.0 technology has helped address geographical distance, enabling commune health staff in mountainous areas to seek consultation from their colleagues at the district and higher levels.This enhances people’s access to quality health diagnosis and treatment right at the commune health station ...
Vietnam Sustainable Urban Development Forum 2022 to take place this week
The Vietnam Sustainable Urban Development Forum 2022 will be jointly organised by the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, the Ministry of Construction and relevant agencies in Hanoi from June 16- 17, according to the commission. The Forum is part of activities to realise Resolution No. ...
Workshop reviews results of socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas
A workshop reviewing institutional work and results of socio-economic development and ensuring national defence and security in ethnic minority-inhabited areas was held in Hanoi on August 8.According to a report summarising the 15-year implementation of Resolution No. 24-NQ/TW on ethnic minority affairs, the socio-economic situation ...
STEM teaching does not need high level of funding: official
Many schools complain they don’t have money to organize STEM education but the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) says STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) does not always require a lot of money.Director of MOET’s Secondary Education Department Nguyen Xuan Thanh said at a ...
Thanh Hung
‘Encouraging’ gold prospects in Kratie
Initial yields from deposits in Kratie province have prompted Indochine Mining Limited to announce that they were ‘encouraging.’ Results from the drilling will be released in two weeks. The drilling was focused on two target sites within Kratie province. ...
Gaming firm to expand Poipet operations
American Stock Exchange-listed Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc has announced it will build and operate a slot hall as an addition to an existing casino in Poipet city on Cambodia’s border with Thailand, according to a company statement. ...
Cops in Kampong Cham, Pursat take course in how to prevent riots
Nearly 600 provincial police officers from Kampong Cham and Pursat completed a training course in protest and strike preparedness which taught them how to deal with potential unrest before and after the national elections on July 29. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-kampong-cham-pursat-take-course-how-prevent-riots
PMs ‘committed’ to settling border row
Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith have called on the French government to supply maps and other related documents to settle a border dispute, as they expressed their commitment to ending the spat. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pms-committed-settling-border-row
Sihanoukville expressway nears construction
A construction team composed of 200 workers from China has arrived in the Kingdom to begin work on an expressway that will connect Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, with the groundbreaking ceremony expected before the end of March. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50568038/sihanoukville-expressway-nears-construction/
Sar Kheng orders Prey Lang forest protection
Interior Minister Sar Kheng urged authorities on Thursday to protect Prey Lang forest, saying it is the largest remaining woodland in mainland Southeast Asia, and that amendments to laws that protect natural resources would soon be finalised. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-orders-prey-lang-forest-protection
Oddar Meanchey villagers told to leave tourist site
The governor of Samrong city, Oddar Meanchey province, issued a letter on Tuesday, ordering villagers to remove huts, houses and other structures from the Roluos Thom Natural Eco Tourist Site, after allegedly moving onto the land illegally. ...
Yon Sineat
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oddar-meanchey-villagers-told-leave-tourist-site
Interior ministry official charged over land grab
Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday charged a government official who allegedly tried to grab state land by fraudulently using Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s wife’s name to threaten a commune chief in Preah Sihanouk province. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50542474/interior-ministry-official-charged-over-land-grab-2/
Man busted with wildlife in Kampong Thom
District authorities in Kampong Thom province on Tuesday arrested a Kampong Cham man who was allegedly driving a van hauling illegal wildlife and timber, according to Mom Sophal, chief of the Forestry Administration office in Kampong Thmor. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-busted-wildlife-kampong-thom