Malaysian palm oil futures recovered late on February 28, tracking stronger prices after hitting their lowest level in nearly four months earlier in the day. Benchmark palm oil futures for May on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange ended the session 0.6 percent higher at 2,770 ...

Tourism operators are proposing a new inbound tourism plan, called Safe and Sealed, to replace travel bubbles and keep Thailand from realising a worst-case revenue scenario of 675 billion baht next year, down from 3.01 trillion baht in 2019.At Wednesday’s joint meeting of the Tourism ...

A recent warning from Thailand’s government deputy spokesperson, Trisuree Trisaranakul, has alerted the public to the rapidly growing dengue fever outbreak. With nearly 20,000 reported cases and 15 deaths in the past five months, the epidemic reached its highest level in three years. Citizens are urged to take precautions to protect ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, arrived back in Phnom Penh on Monday after two weeks in the U.S. and Canada, deriding a lawsuit filed against him in Los Angeles for wrongful imprisonment that includes a count of “international terrorism.” ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has met with a number of major US companies who have expressed interest in investing in Cambodia, in a meeting convened by the US-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC).   ...

Environmentally concerned citizens in Thailand joined climate activists across the world on Friday to campaign for urgent solutions to climate change.More than 100 people took part in “Climate Strike Bangkok” in downtown Bangkok as part of the larger campaign “Global Climate Strike For Future”, which ...

Phnom Penh municipal governor Pa Socheatvong maintained Wednesday that the city would partially demolish two buildings near the Royal Palace because they exceed the height limit stated in their contracts, though he did not specify when the demolition would occur. One building, owned by Vattanac ...

A new booklet “An Introduction to MRC Procedural Rules for Mekong Water Cooperation” has been published onlIne to help understand how the regional Intergovernmental organization promotes rule-based water cooperation among its member countries of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam.In the booklet, each set ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government is targeting modern production methods in The nation’s agricultural development strategy to help push forward its policy agenda on food security and reducing poverty in rural areas.Deputy Prime Minister Dr Sonexay Siphandone told those attending The Ministry of Agriculture ...

Philip Hampden-Smith, general manager of Southeast Asia operations at Manulife, talks about the company’s entry into the Cambodian market and what the new few years might bring. Cambodia’s nascent life insurance industry may be just only a year old but the nation of nearly 15 million ...

Since early morning Cambodian voters go to the polling stations to cast their ballots in the fifth parliamentary election. 9.67 million people were registered for this election, which is seen a tough completion between the ruling party of Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Cambodia ...

The Ministry of Health has ramped up its preparation to stem The spread of The deadly Covid-19 disease in The Kingdom thanks to help from The Jack Ma and Alibaba foundations which donated 20,000 test kits to The Kingdom. ...

Informal workers, a class that Includes beer promoters, tuk tuk drivers and farmers, are among those who stand to benefit most from the upcomIng trade-union law, observers say – and workers say it can’t come soon enough. Dave Welsh, country director of the American Center for ...

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration says it’s working to make all Bangkok schools soda-free (sugary drinks).The Nation reports that The BMA’s Permanent Secretary is consulting with municipal and district offices in an effort to improve The health of The city’s school children and protect Them from ...

The Public Health Ministry is mulling over The possibility of issuing coloured cards to signify The status of people who have been vaccinated and those recovered from Covid-19 as people re-engage in social activities.The cards — green for fully vaccinated and yellow for people who ...

With Thailand facing its worst dengue outbreak in half a decade, people of all ages have been advised to protect themselves from mosquito bites and control the Aedes aegypti mosquito population.the Department of Disease Control (DDC) has assured that the authorities are fully prepared to ...

The country’s major big business representative has asked The government for a 45-day delay in new regulations on recycling and disposal of electronics waste. The Federation of Thai industries (FTI) claims that haste on waste laws could cost up to (exactly) 753,357 workers Their jobs. ...

The Energy Ministry is preparing to promote Thailand as The power trade hub of SouTheast Asia by improving high-voltage transmission lines across The country to open regional power trading and sales of surplus electricity.Kulit Sombatsiri, permanent secretary for The Energy Ministry, said The ministry has ...

Four Cambodian domestic workers sent to Malaysia despite an official moratorium on the practice have been repatriated amid claims of unpaid wages and harsh working conditions, though the company that recruited them has insisted that the terms of their employment didn’t technically violate the government ...

The Bank of Thailand (BoT) has asserted that it has stepped into The market only to curb volatility in The baht, and Thailand has never used The exchange rate as a tool to gain an unfair trade advantage.BoT assistant governor Chantavarn Sucharitakul said The central ...