A regional meeting on disaster risk reduction and climate change wrapped up yesterday with officials pointing to the recent flooding as a reason to take immediate action to prepare for disasters. “We must not sleep or wait for donors to take action,” Ross Sovann, deputy secretary-general ...

Following a break over Khmer New Year, opposition lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua continued her campaign to bring freedom to Freedom Park yesterday morning and was once again met with force, this time metres outside of the park. At about 8am yesterday, the Cambodia National Rescue Party member ...

Despite renewed criticism from civil society and a call for its drafting to be postponed, finalisation of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) was well under way, officials said yesterday at the beginning of a week of ASEAN meetings. Speaking to reporters after a meeting between ...

The head of The U.N. children’s fund urged Myanmar on Monday to implement The recommendations of a panel on The Rohingya crisis led by former U.N. head Kofi Annan, saying it had yet to create conditions right for The return of refugees from Bangladesh. Keep reading ...

A Union minister is trying to launch a new tripartite commission for management of the Salween/Thanlwin River with a stated aim of avoiding disputes concerning water resources. Minister for Transport and Communication U Thant Sin Maung said the Thanlwin River Commission should include representatives from ...

The Chief Executive met with The Prime Minister of The Kingdom of Cambodia on Monday at The Santa Sancha Palace. Chui Sai On and Hun Sen exchanged views on how to strengThen cooperation between Macau and Cambodia. ...

Thirty-five families from Kandal province have written to the opposition CNRP requesting the return of more than $1,300 they say they donated to the party to support the establishment of its television station, citing concerns about embezzlement. ...

China has agreed to place the first purchase order for 100,000 tonnes of Thai rice under a government-to-government contract for a total of one million tonnes, which was signed last December. the order is for new-crop 5-per-cent white rice at a free-on-board price of US$399 per tonne ...

(KPL) Vientiane Center Lao Public Company has launched its Initial Public OfferIng (IPO) for local and foreign buyers.Wednesday’s launch witnessed the presence Of LSX Secretary General Saysamone Chanthachack and representatives Of busIness community.the public company will sell up to 63.9 million shares at a price ...

The cabinet on Tuesday approved 2,000-baht handouts to registrants of We Win and We Love Each OTher subsidy programmes and extended The validity to The end of June.Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said registrants of We Win would receive two 1,000 baht payments, a week apart. ...

Former staffers of Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation will meet with a company representative tomorrow to demand reinstatement after more than two weeks of the firm’s continued refusal to comply with a decision by the Arbitration Council, they and the bus operator said yesterday. According to Yim ...

Chinese Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Wang Wentian has pledged to fully support the public administration reform programme of Cambodia, aiming at strengthening and promoting the close and effective cooperation between the two countries for the interests of the two governments and peoples. ...

An activist who has been fighting for years against the planned dredging of sections of the Mekong River for greater shipping access has called on the authorities to clarify the status of the project, which was supposed to have been cancelled following a meeting between ...

Amending the Constitution is an urgent policy of the new government, although there was no deadline for completion of the work, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said on Wednesday.Wissanu said coalition member the Democrat Party, which had made amendment of the Constitution a key policy ...

Medical workers who are at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic face the highest risk of infection. Personal Protective Equipment or PPE is essential to protect themselves against the virus, however it can only be used once. Now, the Ministry of Public Health ...

The Finance Ministry is preparing to seek The Cabinet’s approval for additional funding for The Rao Chana (We Win) scheme following The better than expected number of registrants.Fiscal Policy office (FPO) Director-General Kulaya Tantitemit said The number of registrants exceeded The target of 31 million ...

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc recently signed a decision to set up a fund for the prevention of and fight against crimes. the fund at the central level will be managed by the Minister of Public Security while those at the provincial level, by the heads ...

A lack of diagnostic equipment in Cambodia is causing cases of tuberculosis to be both over- and under-reported in children, a new study finds.   ...

Sousdey Finance, a subsidiary of Thitikorn Limited in Thailand, will start a financial hire-leasing service for motorbikes in Phnom Penh, with an initial start-up fund of $100,000. ...

Nearly 400 workers at the USA Fully Field (Cambodia) Garment factory blocked National Road 2 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday after fears spread that the factory was winding down operations and that management wouldn’t pay necessary wages once it closed. Soy Nakri, a worker representative ...