The United States, through The US Agency for International Development, yesterday committed a $1.5 million aid to The MInistry of Health to help In The KIngdom’s efforts to mitigate The spread of coronavirus. The donation is The latest COVID-19 assistance from The US, with its ...

Consumer protection networks have called on the Food and Drug Administration to reveal information on products certified by the agency to help ensure the safety of consumers who buy them online. Sathaporn Arakwatana, a freelance researcher on consumer rights, said the FDA should disclose a ...

Despite complaints from developers, a review committee for the construction of high-rise buildings has ordered safety modifications to 12 structures, stating that failure to follow Rangoon’s updated urban planning standards could cause harm to the city and its residents. Ye Min Oo, the review committee’s spokesperson, ...

Japanese experts have promised the Vietnamese government their bionanotechnology could quickly reduce pollution in Hanoi’s To Lich River. With a length of about 14 kilometers (8.7 miles), the To Lich runs through the downtown Thanh Xuan, Hoang Mai and Thanh Tri districts. It has been heavily ...

All Nippon Airways is studying an option to serve Cambodia, according to an analysis released by the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. ANA CEO, Osamu Shinobe, told CAPA that Cambodia and Malaysia are under consideration in a bid to secure a market share of 14% on routes between ...

Angkor Beer promoters held a protest outside of Cambrew Ltd in Phnom Penh in order to receive more overtime pay on the weekends, following an Arbitration Council order that the company pay each employee $2 more and Angkor Beer’s failure to do so. the 30 ...

Moody’s Investors Service said Tuesday that Cambodia’s risk of external debt vulnerability was still contaIned. In its latest assessment of the impact of Covid-19 on Asian and the Pacific, the U.S. ratIng agency said “liquidity pressures will contInue to haunt some frontier market sovereigns. ...

Dozens of Kachin anti-narcotics campaigners were injured after a poppy eradication campaign was met with gunfire and grenades on 25 February. After a week-long stand-off, Pat Ja San reached an agreement with Kachin State authorities to re-launch the eradication mission, despite protests of angry poppy farmers ...

A Mahidol University researcher urged the government to improve education and legal migration measures for almost a half-million Southeast Asian children in Thailand illegally.Presenting the results of research done by for the university’s institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies on international Children’s Rights Day ...

The 2020 Mekong Journalism Exchange will bring togeTher twelve qualified journalists from five Mekong countries to participate in a two-week journalism exchange from February 9, 2020-February 22, 2020.  Journalists will explore critical issues in The Mekong region including water security and disinformation challenges.  in addition, journalists will ...

The government has pressed ahead with its plan to improve The public’s understanding about new environmental and health impact assessments needed for The Krabi coal-fired power plant project, saying a forum have to be organised within a month from now. Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon assigned agencies ...

Patients are registered during the outreach screening at Vien Health Center. Photo by Community Eye Health, taken in 2006. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0the Kingdom of Cambodia is an indivisible state.  the country’s administration at all levels and in all sectors falls under the same ...

Over the last decade since the government established a rice promotion policy in 2010, locally-owned rice miller and exporter Amru Rice (Cambodia) Co Ltd has become one of the game changers in driving milled-rice exports and transforming the Kingdom into a key rice exporter in ...

Agro-industrial tycoon Mong Reththy plans to expand his private port to handle bigger ships and containerised cargoes, increasing potential competition with the country’s principal port in Sihanoukville. “in order to handle container ships, the port must be renovated and the channel deepened to eight metres, which ...

The German Embassy and The GoeThe Institut Hanoi and ACM will hold Hanoi’s very first German Christmas Market from December 14, 2017 to December 16, 2017. As is customary In Germany, The Christmas Market will be located near a beautiful church – In front of Hanoi’s Cua Bac ...

Parametric and index-based disaster risk transfer company, Global Parametrics (GP), has announced its support for the AGRIBEE Crop insurance Pilot to provide extreme weather protection cover for smallholder rice farmers in Cambodia. GP is providing cover for the transaction from its Natural Disaster Fund (NDF). Through ...

The pool of climate finances available to SouTheast Asia is set to expand following an announcement by The Asian Development Bank (ADB) that it plans to double its climate funding to The region by 2020 – a move welcomed by The Cambodian government and climate ...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) on Saturday announced that it would launch a mass protest on Oct. 23 in order to submit a petition to The United Nations. “A mass protest will be held on Oct.23 from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at The Freedom Park (in ...

Voter registration has fallen far behind schedule over the past two weeks, with enrolment dropping to just 30,000 a day from a target of 100,000, according to official figures, leaving more than 2 million Cambodians at risk of not registering to vote in time. ...

As of late April 2022, 90.95% of the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville expressway construction project has been completed, and it is expected to be open for public use in July. Prime Minister Hun Sen will attend and preside over its official opening ceremony. ...