If the draft education law compiled by the Ministry of Education & Training (MOET) is approved, preschools will have to receive children from 3 months old to six years old. Teachers complain the regulation will place a heavy burden on their shoulders, while parents doubt the ...

The Japanese government will provide a $3 million grant to help Cambodia fight marine plastic pollution and promote a responsible cycle of using, reusing and recycling all forms of plastic waste.​The grant will fund an anti-waste project to be implemented by The Ministry of Environment, ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has given its municipal and provincial department two weeks to put togeTher a report detailing which schools in Their territory can safely reopen because of low Covid-19 transmission in Their localities, while some schools are pushing to reopen ...

Smog returned to Bangkok with PM 2.5 dust exceeding safe levels at seven monitoring stations on Tuesday morning, up to 57 microgrammes per cubic metre of air.The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s environment office reported tha levels of particulate matter 2.5 microns or less in diameter (PM2.5) ...

The steep increase in Angkor Wat ticket prices on February 1 did not discourage tourists from visiting The country’s chief tourist draw, as some feared, but it also did not reap any significant material gains for The government coffers, new data shows. Figures released on ...

Battambang provincial Fisheries Administration apprehended perpetrators of 38 fishery crimes and confiscated fishing nets spanning a total of 18,560m in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report.   ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Household air pollution from both cooking fires and tobacco is highly prevalent; nearly three-quarters of all households surveyed reported exposure to smoking in the home and exposure to indoor cooking fire smoke.When multiple sources of exposure are evaluated together, a third ...

Vientiane still has a huge potential for businesses and investment since Laos is being integrated with South East Asian Nations, according to economists. However, economists recommended that infrastructure development including roads, water and electricity supply are crucial for facilitating and attracting more entrepreneurs to the ...

Two Lao nationals living in Vientiane have been infected with coronavirus (COVID-19) after their tests, released at about 9 pm on March 23, were shown to be positive, a task force announced yesterday. the 36-year-old female tour guide and the 28-year-old male worker from Crowne Plaza ...

In March, Thailand announced it will draft a master plan to reach net zero carbon emissions. Though it has not set a date for net zero, that deadlIne will proably be announced In November at the COP26 UN climate talks. AccordIng to energy secretary Kulit Sombasiri, talkIng ...

The Competition Law, a piece of legislation deemed crucial in The digital economy, will be completed early next year, Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak said yesterday. ...

The EDC report stated that Cambodia’s purchase of electricity from overseas fell by about 25 percent in 2016 compared with The previous year. According to EDC’s projections, this year’s imports are expected to fall furTher by 20 percent compared to 2016 due to domestic production ...

Transport Minister Sun Chanthol is to order all road construction companies to install signs at their worksites in an effort to avoid traffic accidents.Speaking at the closing ceremony of the National Road Safety Committee’s annual meeting yesterday, Mr Chanthol said he would order companies working ...

Analog broadcasts from television stations all over Cambodia will cease and be replaced by digital transmissions by 2020 at the latest, Minister of information Khieu Kanharith said yesterday. Speaking at a press conference to representatives from 13 television stations, Mr Kanharith said Cambodia needs to transition ...

Trade between Cambodia and China’s Hong Kong increased by 19 percent in 2013, thanks to good ties between China and Cambodia, Raymond Yip, assistant executive director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, said here Friday. the total trade value between Cambodia and Hong Kong amounted ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday called on Thailand’s ruling junta to ensure the safety of Cambodian migrant workers and to treat well those that are being deported. Up to 250,000 Cambodians have fled Thailand or been deported since the junta took control in a May ...

A royal decree released yesterday has assigned 38 paid advisers to deputy ruling party president Say Chhum to assist him in his new role as Senate president. The same document, signed by King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday, also served to disband The large team of advisers ...

The government of Germany on Tuesday provided a $14.6 million grant aid to Cambodia to support various social development interventions in The nation. ...

The Fisheries Administration and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) yesterday announced that an estimated 89 Irrawaddy dolphins live in The rivers of Cambodia, according to an official population survey. ...

The Ministry of Environment has installed ten additional cameras-traps  in Phnom Somkhos wildlife sanctuary, Pursat province, to see if The area needs to be protected furTher. ...