Thailand plans to seek talks with the United States on a decision to end preferential trade privileges on a range of Thai exports including seafood, officials said Monday.Keerati Rushchano, acting director-general of the Commerce Ministry’s Foreign Trade Department, said his office has been warning exporters ...

The monthly allowance for those with special needs will be raised from Bt800 to Bt1,000, The Department of Empowerment of Persons With Disabilities’ committee decided at a meeting.Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit chaired The meeting and said The resolution would soon be ...

THE Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), THE recently established bourse with a single player, will increase THE number of trade executions from twice to six times a day, a move that will take effect on March 11. A CSX officer and THE managing director of a securities ...

A new study has found that there is a “substantial burden” of pediatric typhoid fever in rural communes in Cambodia. ...

In what is becomIng an all too familiar tale, another mother of a domestic worker who was sent to Malaysia has filed a complaInt allegIng her daughter is beIng exploited. Chea Si Yan said yesterday she wanted her daughter and goddaughter to come home because they ...

US presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are now on barnstorming tours across the country, making their final appeals to swing voters ahead of next Tuesday’s election. Democratic candidate Ms. Clinton has received an overwhelming number of endorsements from a variety of places, including French ...

President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers of Cuba, Mr Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, and his wife, together with an official delegation, will pay a state visit to Laos from November 10-11.More ...

The colonial-era buildings damaged by a construction site along Phnom Penh’s bustling riverfront are under threat of imminent collapse, a structural engineer who examined The area said yesterday. Local company Vattanac yesterday complied with local authority demands to halt construction at The Sisowath Quay site – ...

Government plans cash handouts to farmers’ families of between Bt15,000 and Bt30,000 a month per family. The figure is yet to be finalised by ministers and The cost is estimated at Bt130 billion to Bt400 billion.The Finance Ministry will propose to The Cabinet to support ...

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on 21 January said that it would divide between itself and The Cambodian government The duties of processing and potentially relocating The scores of Montagnard asylum seekers whose claims The government finally agreed to hear on 20 January. Keep reading ...

The board of National Health Security office (NHSO) will ask The cabinet to approve a central budget of 3.5 billion baht to treat Covid-19 patients under The Universal Health Coverage scheme, NHSO secretary-general Sakchai Kanchanawattana said on Monday.The move came after The NHSO resolved to ...

Every evening, Seu Rin takes his family’s wooden fishing boat down the Teuk Chhu River to the waters of the Cambodian coast. ...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has called on The United Nations to join an investigation into The beating of two CNRP parliamentarians last Monday, expressing serious doubts The Cambodian People’s Party-led government could conduct an independent inquiry into an incident it was almost immediately ...

A report by the Global Fund’s Office Of the Inspector General (OIG) has confirmed evidence Of corruption and nepotism at Cambodia’s National Malaria Centre (CNM), first revealed by the Post last year, callIng the centre’s oversight “dysfunctional and unauditable”. ...

The National Assembly (NA) opened The 5th Plenary Session of The 6th Legislature on Monday and approved a draft law concerning management of The gambling business. ...

Over 260,000 Cambodian migrant workers have returned from abroad, mostly from Thailand, since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic through the end of 2021, according to the National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT). ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport said The first day of The high school diploma exams, which kicked off on December 27, went smoothly although over 4,000 registered candidates were absent and automatically failed The test. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that despite the difficulties caused by the spread of Covid-19, the fight against malaria had continued efficiently and made a significant contribution to the achievement of Cambodia’s sustainable development goals 2016-2030. ...

Lao small-scale farmers can now access Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS), to help them to increase the supply of quality organic produ cts to the local market. United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Regional officer for Asia and the Pacific Ms Mayling Flores Rojas said ...

Construction of the controversial Bt14-billion Chao Phraya Landmark project is expected to start early next year, according to a source close to the project. the source also said on 21 February that Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan had ordered state radio and TV stations ...