VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Three people were killed when a house in Meuangnga village, Luang Prabang city was engulfed in flames on Sunday.An official from the Fire Prevention and Control Police Department of Luang Prabang, Major Phet Phengnanuan told Vientiane Times on Monday that the ...

The Kratie Provincial Mines and Energy Department yesterday inspected a Chinese gold mining company following reports of dead fish found in a nearby river.​ Villagers believe that The fish died after toxic sludge from The mine in Sambor district flowed into The river following heavy rain ...

Myanmar State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen are expected to arrive at the Clark international Airport in Pampanga on Saturday for the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, which will be held on November 10-14 in ...

The European Union on Sunday (Nov, 11) offered a clarification over a media report that it has asked to send an army of observers to monitor The upcoming general election expected in February next year.It said in a clarification that The EU has not received ...

The Covid-19 infections that spread from The seafood market in Samut Sakhon are likely to ruin tourism sentiment, hobbling domestic trips to 95 million this year, says The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).TAT governor Yuthasak Supasorn said if There were no cases in Samut Sakhon, ...

A sitting Sam Rainsy Party commune chief and council members from four communes in Ratanakkiri on March 12 decried their omission from the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s list of candidates for the upcoming June ballot. About 88,000 candidates were put forward to the National Election ...

Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn endorsed a $16 billion borrowing plan to shield Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy from the impact of a raging coronavirus outbreak that’s threatening a nascent recovery and plans to reopen borders to tourists.the government can borrow 500 billion baht ($16 billion) in ...

The Thai Commerce Ministry has called for continued cooperation from manufacturers to maintain product prices as long as possible in order to curb The negative impact on consumers.This move came after manufacturers proposed to increase The prices of Their products to cope with higher production ...

Borei Keila evictees sleeping under stairs at the site where their houses were bulldozed in January would die unless more aid organisations provided them with food, an NGO representative said yesterday. Amnesty international paid for the Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF) to deliver more than 1,200 ...

Tycoon Kong Kroeng, a well-known timber trader, was summoned to the Kratie provincial Military Police headquarters for questioning on August 15 for his alleged involvement in forestry crimes. the summons was obtained by the Post on Tuesday. It was signed by National Military Police deputy ...

The Environment Ministry is preparing a sub-decree to ban The import and production of single-use plastic products to reduce plastic pollution in The Kingdom. ...

Salt producers in Kep and Kampot say their revenues have plummeted over the last two years as cheaper and better-quality salt from Thailand floods the local market.Bun Baraing, co-director of the Kep-Kampot Salt Producers Community, said local consumers have switched to imported Thai salt, which ...

The Japanese government will provide almost $30 million in grant aid to Cambodia to boost Phnom Penh’s public bus system and to strengThen ongoing demining operations. At a signing ceremony at The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, minister Long Visalo and outgoing Japanese Ambassador Yuji Kunamaru, ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has said voters should consider casting their ballot for the ruling CPP rather than for small parties that have done nothing for the country. in remarks posted on Facebook, Mr Hun Sen said: “Other small parties have only campaigned by promising this ...

Corruption remains a major impediment to Cambodia’s development, but the systemic practices associated with it can be curbed if the government takes serious action, a transparency advocate says. Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency international Cambodia, told VOA Khmer in a studio interview recently that Cambodia ...

Cambodia’s Environment Minister Say Samal is a hybrid package. On one hand, he comes from a politically powerful family. This Saturday, his father, Say Chhum, is to be elected co-vice president of the ruling party. On the other hand, the 35-year-old Minister represents Cambodia’s rising, ...

Two elephants living at Kampot province’s notoriously grim Teuk Chhou Zoo are set to be swapped for endangered species with a zoo in Japan, despite deep concern among experts over the suitability of the trade.Teuk Chhou owner Nhim Vanda yesterday said elephants Kiri and Seila ...

As the 2020-2021 harvest season kicks off, cassava prices in the powerhouse provinces of Preah Vihear and Tbong Khmum register a slight uptick compared to the same period last year. ...

The Pursat Provincial Administration will construct ‘collective administration’ facilities in The two newly arranged districts of Talou Sen Chey and Phnom Kravanh. The policy to centralise local public services will better enable Their effective provision. ...

Battambang province will have its first water reservoir built in the Kamrieng district at the Khmer-Thai border which will have the capacity to irrigate some 2,000 hectares of farmland. ...