Myanmar’s small and medium enterprises will face both opportunity and risk under the incoming National League for Democracy government, industry observers say. in particular, anexpected increase in foreign direct investment could separate the strong from the weak. Keep reading ...

The Government has defined eight key tasks to help The Mekong Delta achieve sustainable development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed in a document responding to queries from National Assembly Tran Thi Hoa Ry regarding development in The country’s largest granary.  Keep reading ...

Thailand’s finest tomato production areas along Mekong River in the northeastern region have suffered serious impacts from dams in the lower Mekong River Basin, causing financial distress for the local farmers and threatening their livelihoods.Keep reading ...

Myanmar’s parliament voted on 18 August to again extend martial law for three months in a restive area along the country’s border with China, where there have been clashes between the military and an armed ethnic group since February. Cross-border incidents in the fighting have strained ties ...

Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office executive director, Jens Thraenhart’s contract runs out 30 June, just days after the Mekong Tourism Forum is hosted in Nakhon Phanom, 26 to 29 June in northeast Thailand. So far the six-country group that oversees the Office has not commented on whether ...

The China-led Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) project, launched in 2015, is going to be a dominant sub-regional mechanism in The Mekong sub-region. It is The key instrument for China’s multilateral engagement in The greater Mekong sub-region, which is a growth centre as well as a strategic ...

Local rights group Adhoc on Thursday called on Prime Minister Hun Sen and other government officials to hold regular meetings with NGOs in order to better understand the human rights situation in the country. ...

Despite widespread concern it could curtail pro-democracy and rights work in the country, a bill to regulate NGOs in Cambodia arrived at the National Assembly Tuesday, where it must be debated before its likely passage into law. ...

A district police chief in Kompong Chhnang province was on Tuesday questioned over accusations that he raped a high-school student in his office earlier this month and threatened to kill the woman’s family if she told anyone about the assault. ...

BCD Travel is expanding its Asia-Pacific operations with a new office in Cambodia in partnership with Tonle Travel. BCD Travel now has offices in 18 countries in the Asia-Pacfic region. ...

The National Authority for Preah Vihear (NAPV) will cooperate with The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) to begin a joint operation to clear mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in two areas located in The Koh Ker temple complex in Preah Vihear province. ...

Officials from the CPP and CNRP met Tuesday at the National Assembly to discuss making changes to the Law on Commune Council Elections before the next poll in February 2017. ...

MORE than 4,000 workers at M&V Manufacturing international’s garment factory in Kampong Chhnang province continued to strike for a fourth day yesterday, as a union president urged Prime Minister Hun Sen to force the company to reinstate 20 fired workers. Free Trade Union president Chea Mony ...

If a joint committee investigates the irregularities and results from Sunday’s election, it will discover the opposition has won between 80 and 90 seats in the 123-seat National Assembly, Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy said today. Rainsy told the Post that his party’s final ...

The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously approved The country’s two new election laws, paving The way for The new bipartisan National Election Committee (NEC) to be established before The Khmer New Year in mid-April. ...

Despite the Cambodian government’s uncertainty last month, US satellite imagery has confirmed that haze from indonesian peat fires that has bedevilled the region did in fact reach Cambodia in October, with haze from local forest fires likely to succeed it as the dry season progresses, ...

Cambodia’s delegates are returning with mixed feelings about the agreement to try and save the planet from catastrophic climate change that was adopted on 12 December at the UN Climate Talks in Paris, known as COP21. in an email sent just before the treaty was adopted, government ...

The United States on Tuesday declared it will help strengThen Myanmar’s anti-illegal drugs campaign and boost The country’s law and order efforts to provide more security for its citizens, a US Embassy statement said. “The United States is committed to assist The Myanmar government in ...

The Australian government has said a deal to resettle refugees in Cambodia is on track, despite media reports to The contrary. Under an agreement signed in September last year, Australia is paying Cambodia to take in refugees rejected from its detention centre on Nauru island. But so ...

The three-star Toyoko Inn hotel is set to open next week, fillIng The gap In The capital’s budget-busIness hotel market. ...