Key joins Asian free trade talks
Prime Minister John Key has joined a launch of Asian free trade talks – but made it clear he favours a US-backed deal. The East Asian Summit wrapped up in Phnom Penh yesterday with Asian leaders formally announcing a start to negotiations towards a Regional Comprehensive ...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/7978019/Key-joins-Asian-free-trade-talks
More funding for biodiversity, environmental protection
The Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) will provide over 7.9 billion kip to strengthen biodiversity conservation and natural resource management activities in six target provinces.The 11 subprojects will take place in the provinces of Vientiane, Xayaboury, Huaphan, Luang Namtha and Attapeu, and in Vientiane, all of ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Official calls for improvements at private healthcare facilities
Health authorities say the services offered through private health care have improved in recent years and that most people now have access to better quality servicesHowever, there have been some problems at private clinics amid complaints that the treatment offered was not up to standard ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Workshop on ODC website and information on access to public services
On 23 November 2017 at the office of Open Development Cambodia (ODC), Phnom Penh, ODC team has organized a workshop On “ODC Website and InformatiOn On Access to Public Services”, funded by Swedish Program for ICT in Developing RegiOns (SPIDER), under a project theme of “Public Awareness of ...
Some unions slam strike threat
A group of pro-government and independent unions have condemned an announcement by Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Mony, who last week told the press that members of his union and others would hold mass strikes and protests if acting president of the Cambodia National ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25523/some-unions-slam-strike-threat/
Canada couple bring Chinese, Indians into Cambodia gold company
Mike Weeks and Delayne Weeks of Canada had a dream five years ago: create a gold mine. Do it in a nation that has never produced gold commercially. Use the process to educate and enrich an impoverished population. The country is Cambodia. The mine is in northeast ...
Thom Calandra
http://www.equities.com/editors-desk/futures-commodities/canada-couple-bring-chinese-indians-into-cambodia-gold-company
World Bank approves upgrade of key arterial road
The World Bank has approved a project that aims to improve National Road No. 13 as part of efforts to create better conditions for people living along and using this primary corridor. The bank made the announcement last week after its executive directors agreed to ...
Ekaphone Phouthonesy
Schools responsible for setting fees: ministry
The setting of fees at both state and private schools is up to individual institutions and will not be dictated by the government, a top education official has said.More ...
Times Reporters
Laos calls for joint effort to overcome East Asia challenges
The development gap among countries remains one of the main challenges to integration and growth within the region, according to Laos, and a joint effort is needed to overcome it. More ...
Times Reporters
Passports please: Thailand cracks down on ‘outlaw foreigners’
Allegedly aimed at busting visa abusers and illegal migrants, a Thai police operation called “X-Ray Outlaw Foreigner” has raised questions about racial profiling and fears For asylum seekers caught in its web.Keeo reading ...
Rights Activist Denies Phnom Penh Move Is Due to Charges
A Ratanakkiri-based human rights worker charged by the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court with inciting ethnic minority villagers to protest during a 2009 land dispute with a private agro-industry company has been transferred to work in Phnom Penh. Pen Bonnar, Ratanakkiri provincial coordinator for Adhoc , said yesterday ...
New project aims to end violence against women
A four-year project on the prevention and elimination of violence against women was launched on Thursday, which was International Human Rights Day. The project aims to strengthen national capacity for the effective, systematic and accountable prevention of, and response to, violence against women in Laos. The Lao ...
Times Reporters
Authorities appeal for help after floods in Huaphan
Authorities in Viengxay district, Huaphan province, are calling for contributions of cash and materials to help with the recovery effort after 18 villages suffered from flooding and landslides.Heavy rain has affected the area since August 3 and seven people are still missing after a landslide.The ...
Phomphong Laoin
Cambodian minorities join meetings at UN headquarters in New York
A group representing Cambodia’s indigenous communities traveled to New York this week, meeting with UN officials and other minority groups from 70 countries. Cambodia’s minorities face a host of problems, particularly as they try to maintain a way of life that relies on traditions and the ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-minorities-join-meetings-at-un-headquarters-in-new-york/1920346.html
Govt expresses sympathy with Myanmar
Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has sent a message of deepest sympathy to Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi over the collapse of an irrigation dam in the Bago Region.More ...
Times Reporters
Eight NagaWorld protesters free on bail
Eight of the 11 union leaders and members who were formerly employed at the NagaWorld integrated resort and were arrested for organising protests over their layoffs were released on bail by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on March 14. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eight-nagaworld-protesters-free-bail
New centre to set benchmarks for tourism services
Laos’ first centre for inspecting the quality of tourism and hospitality operators is to be established to raise the bar in service standards. More ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Another mass fainting, but H&M 'not to blame'
The second mass fainting in a month at Kampong Chhnang’s M&V garment factory, a supplier for global retailer H&M, saw 23 women taken to hospital yesterday, bringing the total number of affected workers in August to 67. Noun Sam Ol, president of the Free Trade Union ...
Compensation issues key to MahaNathiSithandone SEZ progress
A new Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Champassak province known as “MahaNathiSithandone” will not be able to proceed without the completed compensation for affected villagers according to the head of the provincial SEZ authority. The government recently signed a concession agreement with Chinese developer (Laos ...
Somsack Pongkhao
Milestone reached in Paklai dam planning process
Planning for the 770 MW Paklai hydropower project on the Mekong River in Xayaboury province reached another key step when the Mekong River Commission (MRC) officially kicked off the Prior Consultation Process last week.More ...
Ekaphone Phouthonesy