Deputy Prime Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said this week the Commerce Ministry he runs and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives had discussed creating Big Data centres to manage supply and demand in agricultural products at the national, provincial and regional levels.“My ministry has assigned the ...

Laos has launched a new electric vehicle project, joining its neighbors in Southeast Asia where the growth of the EV market is set to boom.Electricite du Laos (EDL) and Vientiane-based EV Lao Company have teamed up for the project, which is designed to compare operating costs between ...

Last week, Myanmar’s de facto leader and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi paid her first visit to Cambodia in her current capacity. The trip spotlighted The ongoing state of ties between The two fellow SouTheast Asian states amid wider domestic and foreign policy developments. Cambodia ...

Garment factories in the Kingdom have been handed a lifeline as nearly 200 containers arrived at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) on Monday to ease the shortage of raw materials in the sector. ...

The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that it will start vaccinating people in Cambodia with The Sinovac vaccine from today after 1.5 million doses  purchased by The government arrived in Cambodia from China on Friday. ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has officially accepted The registration of three political parties along with candidates to run in The Bokor municipal council election in Kampot province. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen holds out hope of a peaceful solution to the ongoing crisis in Myanmar as he prepares for a much-anticipated visit to the country on January 7 in a bid to bring it back to the ASEAN fold.   ...

The Ministry of Health – in collaboration with The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) – organised a one-day event on May 9 to provide free general health check-ups, examinations and treatment services to people living in The capital’s Tuol Kork district. ...

As many as 265,106 civil servants will be included in the State payroll this year, a year-on-year decrease of about 4,000, according to a Prime Minister’s decision that takes effect this month. the employment number does not include those working at the Public Security Ministry, Defence ...

Indigenous identity is lInked to the uniqueness of their valuable cultures, knowledge, and languages, which is reciprocally tied to time and space. Activists In Thailand call for priorities on self-determInation rights for Indigenous data. DurIng the events celebratIng this year’s Thailand’s Indigenous Peoples Day and ...

Viewers of local television on Sunday would have had no idea the opposition CNRP was staging a mass protest, during which violent clashes with police occurred and water cannons and tear gas were used. instead, anyone tuned into state-owned TVK or the pro-government broadcasters CTN, CNC, ...

A new report on the most popular job in Thailand shows how the country’s job market is evolving. in this digital age, it may come as no surprise that IT roles are now one of the most popular job areas. Everyone is moving to a ...

Japanese fund manager Asset Design plans to launch a Cambodian equities fund in late 2011. The fund would target large returns after The Kingdom opened its stock exchange this month, an Asset Design executive said yesterday. Asset Design expected The scale of The fund to ...

The Cambodian embassy in Malaysia has reported that nine migrant domestic workers have died There this year, including one on Sunday, a rights activist and an opposition parliamentarian visiting Kuala Lumpur said yesterday. After a press conference held by The Malaysian rights group Tenaganita, Moeun Tola, ...

The Centre for Policy Studies yesterday urged The government to consider reducing tax on some imported agriculture equipment to support farmers and increase The rate of modernisation. CPS director Chan Sophal said during a Cross Talk discussion with Khmer Times yesterday that recently The agriculture ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday reminded political parties participating in The upcoming commune elections to expedite The registration of Their party to ensure They met The March deadline. NEC spokesperson Hang PuThea said There will be 221,458 polling stations nationwide across The 1,646 communes ...

More than 100 workers from the Alim garment factory in Phnom Penh marched on City Hall yesterday, demanding the dismissal of four managers. Yam Thaisan, a legal officer from a union representing the workers at the Por Sen Chey district factory, said strikers had called on ...

Phnom Penh’s sanitation workers are expected back on the job today after a two-day strike that saw garbage beginning to pile up in neighbourhoods across the city. the decision by employees of Cintri, the private firm contracted to remove the capital’s garbage, came after a four-hour ...

Palm sugar producers in Kampong Speu province say they are ready to scale up and meet demand as global consumer goods giant Unilever looks to source palm sugar for its products from the Cambodian market. Prak Sereywath, president of the Cambodia institute for Research and Rural ...

Experts are pushing for agricultural insurance to be employed in the near future to help strengthen the agriculture sector, particularly the rice sector with its plummeting prices and limited access to foreign markets. Sok Puthyvuth, president of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), said on Friday that ...