The Social Security Board (SSB) on Friday decided to offer financial help to workers registered under its social security system who have eiTher lost Their jobs or have been suspended due to The Covid-19 pandemic.Effective from March 1, workers who have lost Their jobs because ...

Air pollution is a persistent, deadly problem in Thailand. Time after time we watched as thick white smog rolled through the maze of roads to settle among buildings. We knew something was very wrong. After all, clean air should not be visible.We have been living ...

Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Kouch Chamroeun has called on provincial and town police to stop the unwarranted inspections of businesses run by foreigners, especially Chinese nationals.​Chamroeun was speaking at a provincial administration meeting last week that discussed encouraging further foreign investment in legitimate businesses in ...

Several provinces with a high number of workers including Kampong Speu, Takeo and Svay Rieng are set to kick off large-scale vaccinations in a campaign administered by the ministries of Health and National Defence. ...

Minister of Public Works and Transport  Sun Chanthol has sought the help of United States Ambassador Patrick Murphy to help build reliable roads in Cambodia by providing adequate tools and materials. ...

Fifty students will help plant 4,000 trees on September 5 at the Royal Academy of Cambodia’s (RAC) Techo Sen Russey Treb park in Chheb I commune of Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district. ...

Members of a commission established by Myanmar’s government to investigate human rights violations in western Rakhine state, where 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority fled brutal army operations, addressed critics Thursday with a pledge to be impartial. Keep reading ...

Health experts warn that Thailand is vulnerable to a second wave of COVID-19 infections due to neglect of the country’s massive migrant labor sector. Migrant workers often live in squalid, cramped conditions without adequate sanitation and poor access to medical care.Keep reading ...

Two monks living a remote pagoda in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district said yesterday that a shot had been fired at their living quarters last Tuesday in what they suspected was a threat motivated by their conservation efforts and participation in an opposition rally. Venerables Sam ...

Myanmar’s fisheries sector will face its largest loss in history if demand does not pick up very soon, said U Myo Nyunt, secretary of the Myanmar Fisheries Products Processors & Exporters Association (MPEA). “Exports have collapsed. All international orders have been cancelled and we have not ...

The official coronavirus death toll in The South-East Asian nation of Laos remained at zero until this month. Amid a rapidly spreading outbreak in neighbouring Thailand, The Laotian government sealed its borders and imposed a lockdown on April 22.  Everybody except for essential workers was required to stay home ...

Officials from Svay Rieng’s provincial health department are rounding up expired medications that medical staff and villagers are believed to have pocketed while clearing a stockpile near the provincial hospital on Wednesday, local health Officials said yesterday. Provincial medical staff alerted the provincial health department after ...

The Chinese government has granted more than $2 million in assistance to support demining operations in The Kingdom.​ Heng Ratana, director-general of Cambodian Mine Action Centre, yesterday said The Chinese government agreed to grant $2.5 million to support mine clearance next year. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged two protesters involved in a bloody scuffle that left scores injured over The weekend, while anoTher four prominent unionists were also charged in a significant expansion of The controversial case. ...

Stung Treng provincial Fisheries Administration officials warn that the Irrawady dolphins in the Ochheuteal dolphin pleasance in Borei O’Svay Sen Chey district’s Preah Rumkel commune are now faced with extinction as there is only one dolphin left remaining of the pod that was living there ...

The Siem Reap provincial Forestry Administration’s (FA) mobile team and local officials in Chi Kraeng district seized four charcoal trailers at The intersection of National Road 6 in Kok Thloak Krom commune on May 3 for transporting it across The provincial border. ...

The Labour Ministry has set a target to formally send 100,000 Thai labourers abroad this year to prevent Them from travelling overseas to seek employment illegally, said Labour Minister MR Chatu Mongol Sonakul.The minister said The ministry will recruit an initial batch of 70 workers, ...

Global three-dimension (3D) printer manufacturers are pushing into Thailand, paving the way for a growth cycle in Southeast Asia. XYZprinting inc, the world’s largest 3D printer maker, established Bangkok as its first Southeast Asian office in September, with investment of almost 20 million baht. the Taiwan-based company ...

Tattooists are required to get an annual health clearance and to know about proper use and disposal of their tools and waste under a new regulation announced by the Public Health Ministry.the announcement was published in the Royal Gazette on Thursday, and was signed by ...

An investment fund targeted at waste management and recycling projects in Asia was launched Wednesday by a Singapore-based capital fund management firm, backed by some of the world’s biggest consumer products and chemical makers.the Circulate Capital Ocean Fund is the world’s first investment fund focusing ...