Hà Nội authorities plan to provide free COVID-19 vaccinations to all residents, said a senior official.Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Vương Đình Huệ asked concerned agencies to prioritise the purchase of vaccines for all residents using the local budget and mobilising other legal resources at a meeting of ...

The Myanmar government has signed two power purchase agreements (PPA) to buy electricity from two liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants totalling 580 megawatts. The project company of CNTIC VPower Group inked two five-year PPAs with The Ministry of Electricity and Energy’s Electric Power Generation Enterprise (EPGE) ...

Shares of the state-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will trade at 6,300 riel, or $1.57, when the firm launches its initial public offering (IPO) on the Cambodian bourse on April 18, PPWSA announced yesterday. the price puts the company at the top of the ...

The Chinese government on Thursday donated 10,000 U.S. dollars to The Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) to support humanitarian activities. Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo presented The donation to CRC’s president Bun Rany during The celebration of The 151st anniversary of The World Red Cross — ...

The Cambodian Prime Minister has suggested that The deadline of 2030 to achieve The goals of sustainable development (SDGs) might need to be reset because The progress of The agenda has been affected by The outbreak of The COVID-19 pandemic. ...

(KPL) The Nam Theun 2 Power Company and The French Research Institute for Development (IRD) have signed an agreement for scientific and technical cooperation to promote scientific monitorIng of aquatic ecosystems withIn The Nam Theun 2 basIn.The signIng ceremony of The agreement was held on ...

On Monday, 30 November 2015, the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia will continue its fifth plenary session of the fifth legislature, from 8:00 a.m., to discuss and approve the draft Law on National Budget 2016, and the draft Law on Statistics. ...

A delegation from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) – a transnational organisation of lawmakers – met with lawmakers, several mInistries and the UNHCR over the past two days to discuss concerns about the beatIng of two opposition lawmakers last October as well as the jailIng of ...

Construction on Times Centre’s three skyscrapers near Olympic Stadium will commence early this year, but little is known about several key aspects of the project, including the company behind the project. the Times Centre project, which will incorporate retail and office space with 1,000 condominium ...

Sis permits for the construction of pandals for next month’s Thingyan festival around the Mandalay palace moat were auctioned by Mandalay City Development Committee for a total of over K236 million, with one fetching as high as K54 million, said committee member U Kyaw Zaw ...

The Indian Embassy to Cambodia has stated it seeks to see Increased imports of pepper and turmeric from Cambodia. This potential hike In bilateral trade with India was discussed at a meetIng held March 9 between Indian Ambassador to Cambodia Dr Devyani Uttam Khobragade and ...

Ocean plastic pollution is threatening humanity and Thailand cannot escape the blame as one of the world’s worst marine polluters. Although the government has pledged to tackle marine pollution, one thing is certain. Success is out of reach if the state authorities fail to engage ...

PREVENTION activities should be carried out near the confluence of the Ayeyawady River and the Dokhtawaddy River to protect them from riverbank erosion, said U Taing Aung Lin, director of the Mandalay Region Department of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems.Keep reading ...

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In the Khmer folktale “Phnom Chiso Temple,” a HIndu priest gives blessIngs to a Khmer prInce, sayIng: “May you be as strong as an ant, as mighty as a ghost and as decisive as a woman.” FollowIng this as an example, after fishery communities were ...

Parliamentarians criticised the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission on 28 July, while discussing a report, about the commission’s work over the last year. the commission has been working to get human rights curriculums in primary schools and law schools across the country. Amyotha Hluttaw MP U ...

PTT Exploration and Production said on 1 June that it would cooperate with its partners to bid for the Bongkot gas field that it is currently operates, but indicated that it might not contest for the other major gas block currently run by US oil giant ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen will attend the opening of the UN’s General Assembly in New York on 25 September and has vowed to push demining as a development issue, despite it not being on the UN’s agenda. Speaking at the Sokha Hotel, the premier questioned the issue’s ...

The Health Ministry has detected 12 new cases of COVID-19 in Phnom Penh and five oTher provinces, bringing The Kingdom’s total to 24. ...

Alarmed over the number of Covid-positive passengers coming in via Malaysia and indonesia, the government is temporarily suspending flights from both countries from August 1 until their infection rates  decline. ...