Vientiane Capital State Bus Enterprise (VSCBE,) which operates Vientiane City Bus Service, is implementing a cashless electronic payment system for some of its routes in the capital.Passengers on the Airport line and ITECC line are now able to pay for their journey via the LDB trust service, ...

Executives at some of the telecommunication firms indebted to bankrupt mobile operator Mfone said Thursday they owe much less than claimed by the company, and will negotiate with Mfone’s administrator to find a resolution before a complaint is filed in court. “We do owe Mfone money, ...

In its annual report on disaster preparedness, the National Committee for Disaster Management yesterday affirmed that last year’s drought was the worst In 50 years and recommended the construction of new wells to alleviate future dry spells – despite serious risks identified by recent research. ...

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy has left for the United States to attend his daughter’s wedding, triggering criticism at home that he was leaving the country in the midst of a political crisis following disputed national elections. Sam Rainsy announced at a mass rally at Freedom ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Laos-China Science and Technology Exhibition will take place in Vientiane from October 11-16, giving both nations The chance to showcase The latest innovations to The public.The expo at The National Convention Centre will serve as a platform for The two ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new online resource detailing Cambodia’s water supplier license coverage in two languages, Khmer and English. With this new resource, the maps illustrate the information of the location where the licenses have been granted at the commune level as well ...

The government is committed to ramping up The rice megafarm scheme this year, for which it provides soft loans, machinery and agricultural equipment to farmers in order to cut production costs and raise productivity. The scheme will cover 1.05 million rai of related farmland. Chutima ...

The government has decided to build a new immigration office at The Poipet International Border CheckpoInt at a cost of more than $2 million. General Sok Phal, The director general of The Interior MInistry’s immigration department, told reporters on Sunday after an annual meetIng with ...

Russian and Chinese tourist arrivals to Phuket are expected to rebound this year thanks to improving tourism sentiment, says hospitality market researcher and consultant C9 Hotelworks Co. Managing director Bill Barnett said Russian tourists are starting to return to a normal level while Chinese travellers are ...

The chairman of an international panel set up by Myanmar to advise on The Rohingya crisis has rebutted criticism by The body’s former secretary, saying The panel is effective and The government has acted on its recommendations.Former Thai foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai, who last year ...

This layer shows the distribution of Seamounts within Myanmar’s maritime limits. Seamounts are large submarine volcanic mountains rising at least 1,000 m above the surrounding deep-sea floor. the original data is from Ocean Data Viewer developed by UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre. the dataset was ...

About 800 Cambodian workers in Thailand went on strike yesterday against a major global seafood exporter they accuse of exploiting them. the factory, which has been identified by workers and rights groups as Phatthana Seafood Co Ltd in Thailand’s Songkhla province, allegedly scrapped a 20 baht ...

The Kampong Speu Provincial Court has denied bail for eight unionists accused of instigating violence at The Sabrina Garment factory last Monday. Kampong Speu Provincial Court judge, Cheum Rithy said yesterday that he had not approved The bail request because significant work remained in questioning ...

This year, Cambodia and Australia celebrated the 70th anniversary of their diplomatic relations. Ties were first established in 1952, a year before Cambodia attained its independence from the French. Over the decades, the two countries in the indo-Pacific have proven to be great cooperative partners ...

Bangkok aims to use the Open Data initiative to tackle corruption problems by encouraging public participation.Bangkok deputy governor Sanon Wangsrangboon announced the city’s anti-corruption policy at a seminar titled “Using Open Data to improve governance and integrity”, hosted by Chulalongkorn University as part of its ...

A documentary film titled Cambodia Burning produced by the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) won two awards – “Earth Photo 2020” and “Drone Photo 2020” – from the US-based Pulitzer Centre.​ the film, which has drawn criticism from a senior Ministry of Environment official, was ...

UN’s Bali Climate Change Conference. Photo by Oxfam International, taken on 4 December 2007. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Climate change is a contInuIng problem. In Southeast Asia, Cambodia is one of the countries that is most affected and underprepared. As it is a developIng country, ...

Cambodian health officials have been sent to a northeastern district where 10 people died and more than 100 were sickened in two separate incidents linked to the consumption of dog meat and rice wine, a medical officer said Friday. ...

Amid late-arriving rains and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, groundwater supplies are shrinking, a fact that could leave 1.5 million Cambodian farmers unable to water their crops within 15 years, according to a study published last month in the Journal of Hydrology. ...

As expected, opposition leader Sam Rainsy failed to show up at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for a scheduled questioning date on Friday, as he remains abroad after being hit with a slew of criminal charges and an arrest warrant in recent weeks. ...