To acknowledge the importance of organization/ individuals in implementing sustainable development goals, Green innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) has established the innovative Fund for Sustainable energy development. Objectives of the innovative FundStrengthening community engagement (both individuals and organizations) and capacity in sustainable energy development at the ...

Cambodia’s ambassador to South Korea has again come under fire for telling Cambodian expatriates they face “arrest and deportation” if they attend an opposition party event this weekend in Seoul.in a Facebook post yesterday, Suth Dina told Cambodian workers and students in Korea to shun ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new profile page on “Environmental impact assessments”. This page shows completed environmental and social impact assessment reports (EIAs). The reports contain information such as company profile, address, registered investment capital, company registration date and code, contract duration, project size, ...

Kep provincial governor Ken Satha yesterday blamed the lack of a construction law for the deadly building collapse in Kep city earlier this year, which took the lives of 36 people, including children, and injured 23 others. His statement came amid continued demands for justice ...

Following the suggestion made by Prime Minister Hun Sen last week, the Health Ministry yesterday has lifted the ban on travellers from 10 African countries or who have a history of travelling to those countries, which had been put in place over concerns after the ...

The Ministry of Environment and The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have jointly called on The public to be very careful about using fire as a means of cooking, clearing wild grass or harvesting forest products because wildfires often occur in natural protected areas ...

The Office Of Insurance Commission (OIC) on Saturday said Covid-19 patients In home and community isolation programmes are eligible for reimbursements from Insurance companies.OIC secretary-general Suthiphon Thaveechaiyagarn said The Covid-19 crisis shows no signs Of abatIng and hospital beds are begInnIng to run short.Even though ...

The National University of Laos, in cooperation with The French, German and UK embassies in Vientiane, has laid out higher education opportunities in The EU to university faculty members and students. A talk titled “Study in Europe” was delivered at The university, and was attended by ...

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has called on society as a whole to collaborate in meeting the United Nations’ 90-90-90 Goals in HIV/AIDS prevention and control by 2020. Đam made the call during a meeting held in the northern province of Hải Dương yesterday in response to ...

The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) is working with The Office Of The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia (OHCHR) to organise a regional workshop on October 28 to accelerate The establishment Of a National Human Rights institution based on The Paris Principles. ...

People in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district were evacuated on Monday from their houses to temporary shelters on the dike of Prampi Makara Dam until the floods recede. Sak Sampov commune chief Tith Sam On yesterday told Khmer Times that many families can stay on first floor of their ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Several houses and buildings were destroyed or damaged after storms passed over the country last week.the Meteorology and Hydrology Department, under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, had warned that severe weather events could occur in northern and central Laos ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – China Southern Power Grid (CSG) and Electricite du Laos (EDL) have teamed up to supply power for the China-Laos railway with a ceremony held in Vientiane last week to announce the joint venture.the new venture is officially known as the Laos-China ...

The government expects to introduce in January next year The manda pracharath, a new welfare package targeting pregnant women and moThers of small children who are low-income earners.The benefits, which includes financial help for pregnant women and allowances for moThers with children up to six ...

The Equitable Education Fund (EEF) on Wednesday launched a new version of its Information System for Equitable Education management software to reduce Inequality among students In The kIngdom.Kraiyos Patrawat, an assistant manager at EEF, said The software, dubbed iSEE 2.0, would be used by The ...

A scheme worth 7.6 billion THB (215 million USD) has been approved by the cabinet of Thailand to guarantee rubber prices for 1.6 million farmers registered with the country’s Rubber Authority.the move, the fourth phase of an ongoing programme, promises a 40-60 split on revenues ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government has vowed to continue its efforts to improve public services, with many citizens calling for government officials to be more conscientious with regard to service delivery.According to a media release from The government’s Public Relations Department issued at The ...

Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha will use his special power as the junta chief to speed up the long-delayed Thai-Chinese railway project. He insisted his planned issuance of the all-powerful Section 44 of the interim charter to clear legal hurdles in the Thai-Sino rail project is not ...

Two years since the Cambodian government passed a law on fire safety – and hot on the heels of a recent spate of fires at local garment factories, neighbourhoods and nightclubs – a recent informal survey has found that even high-end hotels still widely lack ...

The Live and Learn centre and The German Development Cooperation Organisation (GIZ) jointly opened a training course in Hanoi on July 4 for reporters and communication officers to increase public awareness of clean air protection.The two-day course provides information about The cause and impacts of ...