Cambodia plans to open up bidding on 19 petroleum concessions
Cambodia plans to open bids for concessions on 19 onshore oil and gas exploration blocks to promote investment in the sector, a senior official at the country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy said on Wednesday. The Southeast Asian country is also keen to talk with international ...
Khettiya Jittapong
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL4N0SV4F120141105
Hor Namhong Asks for More Cash for Rail Project
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong made another appeal to Australia For additional funds to complete a behind-schedule project to rehabilitate the country’s railway network, this time to newly appointed Australian Ambassador Alison Burrows, according to a ministry spokesman. While work on the Southern Line of the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hor-namhong-asks-for-more-cash-for-rail-project-30272/
COVID-19 Impact on Thai Labor Market
Unemployment is a looming concern. According to NSO’s data, the unemployment rate has increased to 2 percent in Q2 of 2020. This is more than three times Thailand’s jobless rate for the last decade, which hovered around 0.6%. The Office of the National Economic and ...
Sam Rainsy, Hun Sen agree on new election dates, Kem Sokha disagrees
Prime Minister Hun Sen said today that he and Sam Rainsy agreed to choose Sunday of third week of February 2017 and 2018 for the commune and national elections respectively. However, he added that Kem Sokha disagreed. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=YzBlNTY3ZTlhYjI
NA President hails Laos-Cambodia bilateral relations, cooperation
The Lao side highly values the relations and cooperation between Laos and Cambodia, President of the National Assembly (NA), Ms Pany Yathotou told her visiting Cambodian counterpart Heng Samrin in their meeting yesterday in the capital. Mr Heng Samrin is paying an official goodwill visit ...
United States to realise committed assistance to Laos
The United States will continue to help Laos in addressing the problems around unexploded ordnance (UXO), while expanding cooperation to other sectors. US Ambassador to Laos Rena Bitter reconfirmed the American commitment to Lao media representatives at a reception held at the Embassy compound in ...
Kip depreciation deals heavy blow to Lao economy
The Lao kip has plunged to a record low in recent days against the US dollar and Thai baht despite the government’s attempts to stabilise currency exchange rates.The value of the national currency has nosedived since the end of March, the Governor of the Bank ...
Somsack Pongkhao
US funds education about UXO dangers in Laos
More than 523,000 children in primary schools across the country are set to benefit from the ‘Comprehensive Mine Risk Education in Laos’ project funded by the United States’ Department of State.World Education Inc. and the Ministry of Education and Sports yesterday signed a Memorandum of ...
Times Reporters
Visit Laos-China Year to begin tomorrow
Laos and China will launch a major campaign this week to boost tourism cooperation between the two countries throughout 2019.Officials from the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, Ministry of foreign Affairs and other agencies met in Vientiane this week to discuss the details of ...
Siladda Souliyong
Laos, Thailand cement ongoing cooperation in labour sector
Lao and Thai officials have agreed to continue cooperating in the labour sector aiming to ensure the legal status of Lao workers who can prove their identity in Thailand.Meanwhile, Lao authorities have promised to help illegal workers wanting to return home to acquire passports so ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Russia provides Covid-19 vaccine to Laos
The Russian government has given the Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V to Laos, according to the Russian Embassy in Vientiane. Developed by the Gamaleya National Centre of Epidemiology and Microbiology, the vaccine is 91.4 percent effective in providing protection against Covid-19, he added. Almost one million ...
Times Reporters
Champassak extends dolphin conservation zone
Authorities and residents of Champassak province, especially those living in Hang Sadam and Hang Khon villages, Khong district, recently agreed to extend the conservation zone of the Mekong Dolphin, making it seven times larger. The move has been taken in a bid to conserve the ...
Vientiane Times
Xekong floods wreak havoc, affecting over 5,000 families
Damage to property in four districts of Xekong province has been estimated at over 60 billion kip after more than 5,000 families were affected by recent floods. Heavy rain lashed the districts of Dakcheung, Lamam, Thataeng and Kaleum, where a total of 5,584 families suffered varying ...
Times Reporters
Laos, China strengthen ties in tourism, investment
Ten northern areas of Laos will further strengthen business cooperation with China’s Yunnan province, especially in the fields of tourism, trade, economics, and investment.Ahead of Visit Laos-China Year 2019, the Laos-China Cooperation Committee is meeting in China so that business operators from the two sides ...
Souksamai Boulom
US donates more Covid-19 vaccine to Laos
Adolescents aged 12 to 17, people aged 60 and over, people with underlying health conditions, and pregnant women will be among those benefitting from the latest donation of Pfizer BionTech vaccine from the United States. To date, the United States has provided over US$13 million ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Press Release: The EU and Vietnam implement and Agreement on combating illegal logging and promoting trade in legal timber
On May 8th, 2019, the DelegatiOn of the European UniOn (EU) to Viet Nam and Viet Nam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held a joint meeting to announce the completiOn of the process of approval and ratificatiOn of a Voluntary Partnership Agreement On Forest ...
Controversial Facebook internet service launched in Cambodia
A controversial Facebook platform that offers users free Internet —but a limited choice of websites and apps—was launched in Phnom Penh on Thursday in cooperation with mobile operator Smart Axiata, its CEO said on Friday. ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/controversial-facebook-internet-service-launched-in-cambodia-97093/
Soldiers face down soldiers over capture of loggers
Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldiers from Kratie province surrounded a platoon from Mondolkiri on Tuesday night in order to free a group of Vietnamese men who had been detained on suspicion of illegal logging, a military official said Wednesday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/soldiers-face-down-soldiers-over-capture-of-loggers-87090/
Japan's Indo-Pacific push galvanizes Mekong region
Japan’s ambitious new foreign policy strategy aimed at “bridging” the Southeast Asian mainland and Indo-Pacific regions through aid, trade and infrastructure links has drawn a wary welcome from Mekong area countries concerned about growing rivalry between the major donor countries, China and Japan. Keep reading ...
Gwen Robinson
New border openings
In another push to facilitate bilateral trade, Cambodian and Thai delegates met for two days last week to discuss developments on a handful of new border crossings, a rail line connecting the two countries at Poi Pet, and special economic zones designed for those living ...
Naomi-Collett Ritz
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15201/new-border-openings/