A group of THAI Airways International employees have called on Prime MInister Prayut Chan-o-cha to exercise his power under Section 44 to probe the national carrier’s procurement contracts to see if any were taInted by graft. About 200 members of the so-called THAI Employees FightIng ...

Most Cambodians continue to have low financial literacy even as an increasing number of them are beginning to embrace the formal banking sector, according to a recent Standard & Poor’s report. the international credit rating firm’s Global FinLit Survey showed that only 18 per cent of ...

Two Cambodia Daily journalists accused of incitement and violating voters’ rights for asking questions in advance of Sunday’s commune elections in Ratanakkiri province will likely be summoned for questioning after Election Day, a provincial court prosecutor said. ...

Police arrested a commune official for being mastermind behind a grenade attack in October, which left one person dead, and five others injured when two unidentified men threw a grenade at a group of family members who were having lunch in front of their house. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “SDG 18 Cambodia Mine/ERW free”, a special goal of Cambodia beyond the 17 goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). in this bilingual new topic page, you will get a comprehensive understanding of why ...

Three Cambodian peacekeepers have been confirmed dead in Central African Republic, a day after they went missing following an attack on their convoy by a Christian militant group. the three men, Mao Eng, 37, Seang Norin, 35, and Mom Tola, 31, were shot to death and ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday repeated allegations that Foreign Minister Hor Namhong was responsible for collaborating with his Khmer Rouge captors at the Boeung Trabek prison camp between 1975 and 1979, leading to the murder and torture of numerous inmates.Rainsy, who is in the Philippines, ...

SDG Move invites everyone to take part in reflecting on How far has Thailand’s response to significant challenges progressed? Using the questionnaire “Thailand’s Unsustainable Development Review: 7 Years Passed, How Sustainable is Thailand in Your Opinion?”Your comments will be processed and will be part of ...

Stung Treng provincial police on Sunday sent one of seven men detained over the transportation of illegal timber to court. Provincial police chief Mao Dara said the Vietnamese man was sent to the provincial court after being accused of transporting nearly 200 pieces of beng timber ...

When Cambodian university student Kong Bunrith claimed on Facebook that dozens of his classmates paid bribes to pass their exams and named the government officials allegedly involved, authorities promptly began an investigation.   But the Ministry of Justice chose to focus its investigation on Bunrith, who found ...

The government has asked China to make good on its pledge to buy 200,000 tons of rice annually from The Kingdom and also to speed up The approval of a $300 million loan to The country’s beleaguered rice sector. This request was made yesterday during a ...

Families evicted or still facing eviction to make way for an Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded project to rehabilitate the country’s railway system plan to petition the ADB today for help securing better compensation from the government. the ADB is putting up more than half the money ...

An election official warned Facebook users not to make any politically charged posts the day before the election yesterday during a three-day training session on campaign monitoring, with observers accusing him of overstepping the bounds of a rule forbidding parties from campaigning on that day. ...

Clear government regulations on migrant workers could improve the public attitude towards them, Dr.Sripapha Petcharamesree, a law professor at Chulalongkorn University, told a public forum.She emphasised that Thailand lacks long-term, comprehensive migration policies that aim to foster integration and acceptance.Speaking at the public forum titled ...

The government’s home isolation measures for Covid-19 patients are causing concern over The growing amount of infectious waste They are generating, including discarded face masks and used antigen test kits, as The waste threatens The environment, says The Federation of Thai industries (FTI).Serious action to ...

Thaicom’s commercial satellites operating under the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission’s licensing regime will be under an information and Communication Technology Ministry concession as well, an ICT source said. the satellites under NBTC licensing regime include Thaicom satellites 7 and 8. Any future commercial satellites to ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia spends more than  $30 million per month to implement social assistance programs, especially The development of strong, sustainable and inclusive social protection system for The benefit of all target groups. ...

The Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) was reshuffled on 7 June to Include 11 new members, The President’s Office announced on 8 June. Kyaw WIn, MInister Of National PlannIng and FInance, was appoInted chairman, and Than MyInt, MInister Of Commerce, was appoInted vice chairman. Aung NaIng Oo, former secretary ...

Over 1,000 prisoners were released nationwide this year, according to Laos’ Ministry of Public Security on 2 December. officials from the Prison and Rehabilitation Police Department of the Ministry of Public Security reported to Vientiane Times that across the country they released about 1,029 prisoners, including 232 ...

Thy Sovantha, Cambodia’s youngest political star, is still seething. A charismatic student, she rocketed to fame during the 2013 elections when she backed the opposition’s effort to unseat Cambodia’s authoritarian ruler. Her Facebook page drew hundreds of thousands of followers, making her, at 18, perhaps the ...