Senior Minister Kun Kim, secretary-general of the Cambodia Veteran Association (CVA), has instructed the Pursat provincial Department of Veterans to expedite the issuance of equity cards to veterans so they can receive benefits from the government. ...

Chiang Mai province has planned to pursue a Smart City model to improve the quality of life of local villagers.Chiang Mai Provincial Governor Supachai Iamsuwan said the northern province is on track to develop public facilities, promote tourism, and enhance the quality of life under ...

The Government of Laos and The World Bank on 17 August signed agreements for three projects aiming to improve The efficiency and reliability of electricity, to improve women’s and children’s health and nutrition, and to enable The construction of vital infrastructure including schools, health clinics, roads, ...

Thailand’s inflation rate may be as low as -1% this year as the escalating spread of Covid-19 has weakened overall domestic demand.Pimchanok Vonkorpon, director-general of the Trade Policy and Strategy office, the planning unit of the Commerce Ministry, said a -1% inflation rate would be ...

Tourism-related businesses should make adjustments for the additional Chinese tourists that the government expects will visit this year, a leading business figure says.Vice President of the Lao National Chamber of Commerce and industry, Mr Daovone Phachanthavong, told Vientiane Times last week that hotels, restaurants, guesthouses and travel ...

A new city is fast emerging on the China-Laos border, a manifestation of China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI) that if fully actualized will serve as Beijing’s new gateway to Southeast Asia. Once known for car smuggling and glitzy casinos catering to Chinese punters, the remote ...

The National Assembly’s permanent committee will today schedule a plenary session of parliament to debate and vote on laws that would ban The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party from associating with its former leader Sam Rainsy, or ever using images of his face, recordings of ...

KISHIDA Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan, will lead a high delegation to pay an official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia on Mar. 20-21, 2022, at the invitation of Prime Minister  Hun Sen. ...

While the Ministry of industry and Trade (MOIT) supports waste-to-electricity project with huge investment capital of VND2 trillion, the Ministry of Finance (Mof) views it as problematic.Keep reading ...

Cambodia has marked its first Cassava Day with expectations of greater exports to China, one of the world’s big markets for the tuberous root.   ...

Heng Samrin, president of the National Assembly of Cambodia, said Friday that he was pleased with the good relations between Cambodia and China, which he believes would benefit both countries. ...

A group of electoral monitoring NGOs under the banner of the Electoral Reform Alliance yesterday gathered to express their concern over current regulations that govern Cambodia’s voter registration process. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard The case of a Sen Sok district massage parlour owner accused of operating his business as a front for prostitution yesterday. ...

Two days after opposition calls for renewed negotiations, Information MInister Khieu Kanharith announced yesterday evenIng that the rulIng party will sit down with its opposition counterparts on Thursday to talk election reform, though opposition leaders last night weren’t so sure. SpeakIng at a gatherIng of journalists ...

More than 300 youth from around Cambodia plan to rally on Friday to demand justice for the man killed during the opposition party’s three-day demonstration last month. Participants from a variety of universities, high schools, youth clubs, civil societies and other groups will march from Wat ...

Some tobacco producers who sell their products on the local market still refuse to place graphic images and health warnings on cigarette packaging despite a government decree on the matter coming into force several months ago. Mom Kong, the executive director of the Cambodia Movement ...

With only two and a half weeks to go before the new school year begins on September 5, the COVID-19 situation remains complex, said Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Director of the Secondary Education Department at the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), adding that the ministry has prepared ...

If 2020 was wretched for tourists and the flying public, 2021 looks to be a year full of calibrated plans for recovery for both the tourism and aviation sectors that are desperate for the year-long Covid-19 crisis to bottom out.indeed, the past year has brought ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for the current law only allowing Cambodians to own property from the ground floor up to be scrapped. Currently foreigners can only buy apartments from the second floor and above. the purpose of the move is to increase foreign ...

The former senior adviser to The Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Kong Korm, has been named The honorary president of The Khmer Will Party (KWP). The appointment came after Korm and his son Kong Bora became The first of 118 banned senior CNRP ...