China has promised to discharge water from a dam along the Lancang River (better known as the Mekong) to help alleviate drought conditions in Southeast Asia. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang announced on 15 March in a regular press conference that China will release water from ...

Local fishers around Don Sahong Hydropower Project area in Khong district, Champassak province said their fish catches have only decreased slightly this year as the project has improved fish passage for upstream and downstream migration. One fisherman in Don Sahong village, Mr Viengxay explained that recently ...

Open Development Laos’ programmes support the open movement in Lao PDR and the Mekong region through making data and objective information accessible and useful to all people in the country. Our programmes aim to build strong data constituents who can act to level the playing ...

Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has told ministries to be proactive in attracting investment from Brunei Darussalam after learning that companies in the oil-rich country want to do business in Laos.Bruneian investors are interested in exporting oil to Laos as well as operating poultry farms and ...

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) yesterday raised concerns over The ongoing election results verification process, saying The manner in which it was carried out makes it almost meaningless as a tool to check returns. From Saturday to Tuesday, The National Election Committee carried out ...

The National Legislative Assembly on April 20 passed The national strategy bill in its first reading and went into executive session to pass The Royal Administration Act in three straight readings. The strategy bill was approved for vetting by 196 votes with three abstentions. Deputy Prime Minister ...

Following an announcement by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday that sub-national administrations will soon be streamlined, a government spokesman told The Post that The measure will improve efficiency and effectiveness in governance at a local level. Government spokesman Phay Siphan said on Sunday that The ...

Cambodia is on track to achieve the “Three Zeros” HIV/AIDS target by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An said here on Tuesday.the 3 Zeros, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in New York in June 2011, included zero new HIV infections, zero stigma ...

Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries need to do more to curb human trafficking, a leading human rights advocate says. Yet Asean was formed for the countries in the region to help each other with such issues, Lim Mony said. Trafficking in the region should ...

The investigating judge involved in ongoing legal proceedings against human rights activist Ny Chakrya has said a warrant for The man’s arrest is under consideration after Chakrya failed to respond to a subpoena to appear in court yesterday. However, Chakrya’s employer, rights group Adhoc, said ...

More than 100 striking workers at the Vanny Bio-Research company in Pursat town agreed to go back to work yesterday after mediators promised to find an adequate resolution to their demands for a wage hike. the company breeds and cares for 30,000-40,000 monkeys they sell to ...

At least two women and five men are in custody at Siem Reap provincial police headquarters amid allegations they ran an unlicensed investment firm. the arrests, which followed a Wednesday statement by the provincial governor warning citizens to be vigilant with their money, took place at ...

The national Covid 19 vaccination committee is continuing to push for an increase in at-home vaccinations for those who live in remote areas and cannot access designated sites. The committee also reminded medical teams to ensure that vaccines were administered correctly, to avoid damaging or ...

Vientiane authorities have proposed a 10 to 20 times increase in the fines issued to drunk and speeding motorists, to be implemented in four stages, after raising the matter at the Vientiane People’s Council.More ...

In what one commentator described as “a bold step”, the Interior MInistry’s prisons department has seemIngly admitted it has a drug problem, and last week sent a letter requestIng the Health MInistry’s assistance In tacklIng it. ...

IncreasIngly hurt by sanctions and frozen out by the West over its meddlIng In UkraIne, Syria and the recent US presidential election, Russia is seekIng to pivot to Asia and establishIng a beachhead In a decidedly warmer locale – Cambodia. ...

A Kampong Cham Provincial Court summons over a protest shocked a former local union president and his wife yesterday, since the event in question occurred more than a year ago and the union leader’s wife had no involvement in it. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday morning denied a bail request from former municipal penal police officer Hang Vuthy and in The afternoon retried him over his role in a 2003 conspiracy to murder national military police commander Sao Sokha. ...

In a bid to raise more money from withIn the country, civil society organizations are plannIng to launch a platform In November that will use crowdfundIng via mobile phone credit to fund projects rangIng from IT development to the arts. ...

The government is in talks with China and Russia about setting up a nuclear power plant in The Kingdom. ...