Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the military to use helicopter patrols to prevent fisheries-related crimes around the Tonle Sap Lake and to help apprehend any large-scale fisheries offenders and prosecute them to ensure the sustainability of the lake’s fish population. ...

The Battambang Provincial Election Commission has rejected The Candlelight Party (CP)’s 19 complaints relating to The closure of polling stations during The 5th-mandate commune council elections on June 5. ...

Mandalay Region government is to spend billions bringing drinking water to more than 100 villages that they fear could run dry over the next few weeks. U Myo, deputy director of the region’s Urban Development Department, said on 22 April that K172.45 billion provided by the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The price of food products will be controlled during The Lao New Year (Pi Mai Lao) holiday and all international borders will continue Their import and export services over this period.Services at international border crossings will not be disrupted during The ...

Producers and importers of tobacco products will be penalised with large fines and additional measures if the packages that contain their products do not carry the required instructions and health warnings, according to a new regulation.the health warnings must comprise both images and words.Prime Minister ...

Thai Airways International will carry the first 200,000 doses of a Covid-19 vaccIne from ChIna to Thailand on Feb 24.THAI chairman ACM Chaiyapruk DidyasarIn said on Tuesday the airlIne had been chosen by  the Public Health MInistry to transport the vaccIne, supplied by ChIna’s SInovac ...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has assigned his deputy Prawit Wongsuwon to oversee the selection of members for the National Reform Steering Assembly and new constitution drafting committee while he attends the United Nations General Assembly. Speaking after a cabinet meeting on 22 September, Gen Prayut said he ...

A construction worker was struck dead and six others were injured on Sunday in Oddar Meanchey’s Anglong Veng district, marking the second death by lightning in the area in the past three months, a commune police chief said. ...

Authorities in Laos last week sentenced a woman to five years in prison for criticizing the government on Facebook.Houayheuang Xayabouly, 30, also known by her nickname Mouay, was arrested Sept. 12 after she voiced her concern about the government response to flooding in the country’s ...

The World Bank is losing influence in Cambodia to “emerging donors” and making no major headway in stemming corruption, The Bank’s independent Evaluation Groups said in a report released Wednesday. Specifically focused on The World Bank;s 2007 anti-corruption initiative through 2010, The report uses six ...

In the latest flare up In tensions between the two countries, Lao authorities temporarily shut a border crossIng with Cambodia and dispatched more troops to an un-demarcated area on the northern border after Cambodian authorities began renovatIng an old French border outpost. AccordIng to local ...

After a two-year hiatus, the CamBuild, CamFood and CamHotel exhibitions are back at Diamond Island this week, starting on Wednesday and going through to Friday. Andrew Siow, director of the Kuala Lumpur-headquartered AMB Exhibitions, says the three industry shows at the same time should attract more ...

Environment experts and academics are voicing their concern over the authorities’ lack of preparation to deal with the upcoming haze season. they say the government needs to strengthen its pollution control regulations to better mitigate the problem at its source and protect the people’s health. Speaking at ...

“We have to take more risks,” declares the Executive Vice President of Thailand’s digital gov agency. As Thailand 4.0 takes on shape and form, the government is going fully digital – and it needs to be bold and innovative as cyber threats become ever more sophisticated. ...

Cambodian casino operator, Hong Kong-listed NagaCorp, is trying to reach deals in order to fly gamblers from Macau and mainland China to its gaming resort in Phnom Penh, according to media reports. Hong Kong media quoted NagaCorp chief financial officer, Philip Lee Wai Tuck, as ...

Pepper prices in the Kingdom’s largest pepper producing region have fallen over 30 percent in the last year due to growing international supply that is leading to higher competition in the market, an industry expert said yesterday. ...

A 53-year-old Vietnamese woman has died from coronavirus (Covid-19) in Laos, marking the first death from the virus recorded in the nation, the National Taskforce for Covid-19 Prevention and Control announced on Sunday. the woman, who worked at a karaoke club in Naxay village, Xaysettha ...

Water cannons have been used to bring the angry protest by garment workers to an end. Thousands of people went on strike after they had been promised an 18 euro pay rise and only received half.   ...

Phnom Penh’s hell-raising street racers will enjoy a structured outlet for their love of motorbikes at a new amateur racing cup on Koh Pich island this weekend, a competition also meant to promote compliance with the new traffic law. ...

National Assembly President Heng Samrin has refused to forward to Prime Minister Hun Sen a letter from an opposition lawmaker asking that a group of rubber plantations owned by Vietnamese Ar­my commanders be canceled because they violate the Constitution. ...