Yangon’s parliament has approved a re­gional planning bill that includes details on plans for ‘satellite town’ projects, peripheral areas of the city earmarked for development to help the city cope with its booming population and an influx of investment.Keep reading  ...

Beginning March 3, 2018, persons who are between 15 and 18 years old can open debit cards, credit cards and prepaid cards without the need to provide proof of income’s sources, according to the State Bank of Viet Nam.Keep reading ...

The Indonesian government will dispatch two teams of observers to monitor The upcomIng national election on July 29, accordIng to The Foreign MInistry.​​ ...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen will soon meet with heads of the gasoline importing companies to discuss the gasoline price in Cambodia, according to the state news agency-AKP. Cambodia has currently eight big petroleum companies and distributors including SOKIMEX, TELA, PTT (Cambodia), CALTEX, Bright Victory ...

Oil prices on Tuesday resumed their slide from the previous session, hit by concerns that a political rift between Qatar and several Arab states would undermine an OPEC-led push to tighten the market. Persistent gains in U.S. production also dragged on benchmark crude prices, traders ...

Even comparatively small patches of human intrusion into contiguous forestland disproportionately saps forests’ ability to trap harmful carbon, a recent study has shown, a finding that suggests Cambodia’s government may be underestimating the environmental damage caused by logging and development. So-called “forest degradation” – unlike typical ...

Samleang Seila, executive director of APLE, yesterday during a workshop said that developing countries do not yet have concrete means to discourage and prevent the sexual abuse of children. ...

A lawyer for prominent rights advocate Ny Chakrya on Wednesday confirmed that she had received a lawsuit against her client from a pair of court officials in Siem Reap province who accuse him of defamation and other crimes. ...

Cambodian democracy regressed last year, according to the Economist intelligence Unit’s 2015 Democracy index, which indicates that the Kingdom is “on the cusp of the ‘authoritarian regime’ category”. ...

Preventing spoiled ballots and improving complaint resolution were top of the agenda when the National Election Committee met at the weekend to discuss ways to improve the commune polls. ...

Ratanakkiri’s first cassava-processing plant will operate at full capacity starting next month, producing 300 tonnes of cassava products per day. The factory is now on a test run and is only producing 10 tonnes of cassava products a day, said Soy Sona, director of Ratanakkiri’s ...

Incensed by Thai authorities’ arrest of their family members, residents of Banteay Meanchey’s Thma Puok district took conflict resolution Into their own hands on Saturday by holdIng Thai trucks hostage on their side of the border for days until Thai and Cambodian officials agreed to ...

The administrator charged with liquidating bankrupt mobile operator Mfone filed a complaint Tuesday with The Phnom Penh Municipal Court, requesting it to order two companies to pay money owed to Mfone after repayment negotiations apparently failed, The administrator said. Mobile payment service WinG Cambodia Co. Ltd. ...

All public schools across the country has been instructed to end the 2019-2020 academic year on Nov. 30, according to a new directive of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports issued Sunday night. ...

National Social Security Fund (NSSF) announced yesterday that the NSSF has spent more than $14 million to provide healthcare and allowances to members of the fund for the first six months of this year. ...

The amount of financing available to support Cambodia’s development is expected to double to $23.4 billion by 2025, according to The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It said The available funds would account for nearly 70 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration will from February impose fines on those who do not sort out Their rubbish properly and those who dispose of waste outside of The allocated time slot previously outlined by The municipality. ...

Koh Kong provincial authorities have chosen four key locations where they will erect billboards explaining the idea of “Plastic-free Zones” to educate the public on the prevention and reduction of plastic use. ...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) is collaborating with food delivery service providers to reduce The use of single-use plastics.The two sides signed an agreement on Wednesday aimed at cutting down on discarded single-use plastic items.Keep reading ...

ADB President Takehiko Nakao on 4 April met Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong, Minister of Finance Dr Lien Thikeo and Minister of Planning and investment Mr Somdy Douangdy, to discuss how the ADB can support the country’s infrastructure, private sector, skills development, and health services to enable ...