Local Tech Firm Hopes to Find Partner for Fibre Infrastructure Project
Local tech company Myanmar FPT is looking for a local partner for a two phase, $50 million fibre infrastructure development. Myanmar FPT, owned by Vietnamese company FPT Corporation, has said that the first phase of the project, the National Web Portal, would begin later this ...
Committee on world food security appoints new Thai chair
Thanawat Tiensin has been unanimously selected as the new chairperson of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) during the committee’s 46th annual meeting held last week .Keep watching ...
National week for disaster prevention and control to be launched
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to designate May 15-25 as the national week for natural disaster prevention and control. the week aims to raise public awareness of the efforts to build a society resilient to natural disasters for sustainable development.Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Unsafe sex with personal partners endangering sex workers
More than 86 percent of 3,151 sex workers surveyed across 18 provinces regularly use condoms with clients, according to research released yesterday by the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STDs. But only 27 percent consistently use condoms during sexual intercourse with their husbands, boyfriends ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unsafe-sex-personal-partners-endangering-sex-workers-130245/
Cambodian PM targets 7 million tourists by 2020
Prime Minister Hun Sen says Cambodia can earn $5 billion a year from tourists by more than doubling foreign visitors to 7 million by 2020. Hun Sen told a tourism seminar Thursday that Cambodia would need to improve the quality of services and infrastructure for ...
http://www.newsday.com/news/world/cambodian-pm-targets-7-million-tourists-by-2020-1.4021006
PM agrees to extend school closures
Prime Minister Hun Sen this morning said he has agreed to extend the school closure following a request by the Ministry of Education. ...
Va Sonyka
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50723714/pm-agrees-to-extend-school-closures/
Japanese NGO projects awarded grants
Japan has agreed to provide $754,321 to two organizations under the framework of the Grant Assistance for Japanese non-governmental (NGO) projects. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50814017/japanese-ngo-projects-awarded-grants/
Government meeting designs blueprint for schools to reopen
Cambodia’s education sector met for a high-level discussion with the government to forge a path forward for the re-opening of schools. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50880795/government-meeting-designs-blueprint-for-schools-to-reopen/
ASEAN and Mekong River Commission to hold water security dialogue
The Association of SouTheast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and The Mekong River Commission (MRC) are set to hold a two-day water security dialogue from Today. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50918995/asean-and-mekong-river-commission-to-hold-water-security-dialogue/
Khon Kaen's Mice plan gets official backing
The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) and The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) are set to work on Mice campaigns to boost visitors to Khon Kaen province. Keep reading ...
SUCHAT SRITAMA
With ASEAN integration come more threats to natural resources
Toek Vannara, director of the NGO Forum, discusses the likely environmental problems Cambodia and other countries could face if they do not act to protect their natural resources. Keep reading ...
Provinces fail to meet Paris agreement
The Mekong Delta province of An Giang is being helped to produce a detailed and workable draft plan to implement The Paris Agreement on Climate Change.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Laos, China move forward with cooperation projects
The governments of Laos and China are set to approve cooperation projects to be financed with Chinese assistance, The Lao Prime Minister’s office has announced.More ...
Vientiane Times
Weathermen issue alert for Mekong flooding
People living alongside the Mekong River are warned to be extra vigilant over possible flooding this week, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Meteorology and Hydrology Department has warned.More ...
Times Reporters
NA to consider adopting six bills at seventh session
The National Assembly will consider The adoption of six bills at its seventh session to be opened on May 20, 2019.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
University students take to online entrance exam registration
More than 12,000 students have now registered via an online system for the National University of Laos (NUOL) entrance exams for the coming academic year.More ...
Times Reporters
Cambodia, Thailand to boost cooperation in new key areas
Cambodia and Thailand are committed to enhancing their cooperation in three existing development areas and agreed to add five more areas for the next three-year collaboration, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC).the commitment was expressed during the 15th Consultation on Technical ...
After Australia protests, Hun Sen vows no more pardons for CNRP
Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a scathing critique of his political opposition on Wednesday, conflating them with fiery protesters in Australia and doubling down on his vow to keep politically sensitive prisoners behind bars. ...
Ben Sokhean and Erin Handley
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/after-australia-protests-hun-sen-vows-no-more-pardons-cnrp
Military police officers arrested for blocking forestry officials
Forestry Administration officials detained two military police officers and a third man on Tuesday for attempting to stop them from transporting a haul of illegally logged wood to their headquarters in Kratie City, officials said Sunday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-police-officers-arrested-for-blocking-forestry-officials-92360/
Police arrest 22 Chinese nationals over voip scam
Twenty-two Chinese nationals were arrested at a rented villa in Svay Rieng City on Saturday on suspicion of extorting money from people overseas using Voice over internet Protocol, or VoIP, technology, police said Sunday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-arrest-22-chinese-nationals-over-voip-scam-92921/