The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on October 9 released eight technology maps in the information and communication sector, becoming the first agency to research and develop technology maps for all areas of its management. The maps are about technologies used in the eight areas ...

The 2019 population and housing census kicked off on April 1 with the participation of over 122,000 investigators to collect basic population information and household information.All the information to be collected will tell us the implementation of socio-economic plans in 2011-2020. It will serve as the ...

The Viettel AI Open Platform, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform developed by the military-run telecoms group Viettel, was launched by the Ministry of Information and Communication at a ceremony on August 28.The platform is currently focusing on areas such as Vietnamese speech processing technology (Speech ...

The Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET) was officially launched in Hanoi on September 19. Established in late 2018, the VIET works as an independent organisation studying activities related to the transition of the national energy system. Its main activity is hosting exchanges between scientists and policymakers in energy ...

At least 140 families from eight villages in the Khong district of southwestern Laos’ Champasak province are refusing to sell their land or relocate to make way for a special economic zone planned for their area.Despite this, developers have begun the hasty construction of an ...

Economic growth is expected to take a heavy hit due to the rising number of the elderly and the country urgently needs to tackle it by cutting in half the number of military personnel, increasing the number of foreign labourers and employing increased automation in ...

The government and development partners have reviewed progress in implementing the ‘Bringing Justice Closer to Women Suffering from Gender Based Violence’ project from 2016-2019.The Vientiane National Commission for the Advancement of Women and Mother-Child (NCAWMC) and Sub Commission for the Advancement of Women on Friday ...

A project titled Enhancing Public Finance Management through Information and Communication Technology and Skills (E-FITS) will be carried out in Laos to improve financial reporting and develop administrative capacity for revenue collection, public procurement, and budget execution.Laos will also benefit from the Public Financial Management ...

Laos is now actively working to improve the business environment and facilitate trade as part of supporting the government’s policy to improve the ease of doing business.To this end, the government of Australia last Friday approved AUD4.5 million (over US$3.1 million) to support ease of ...

This layer was downloaded through the Myanmar Marine Biodiversity Atlas Online. The maps presented there detail Myanmar’s physical marine environment, oceanography, marine habitats, biodiversity, and fisheries, in addition to important human influences that will play a role in shaping the country’s marine environment. As the Marine Biodiversity ...

Following the success of the first edition in March 2020 in Phnom Penh, the 2nd Training Workshop on Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA) was conducted on August 26th and 27th in Battambang after being postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. ...

As a part of its strategy to strengthen tools for sharing information about social accountability (for the Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia Project), Internews facilitated a Co-Design Workshop with Open Development Cambodia to improve its webpage on “Access to Public Service Information” in May.All ...

On 30 August 2021, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release on His Excellency Sok Chenda Sophea, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, and His Excellency Masahiro Mikami, Ambassador Extraordinary and ...

On 07 June 2019, environmental organizations, associations, and youth issued a joint statement calling on the government, private sector, youth, and the public to engage actively in the fight against climate change through the environmental protection and reduction of carbon emission. In the statement, they ...

Impoverished countries hoping to strike it rich by developing their limited oil and gas reserves are being urged to move quickly or risk having their expectations clipped by fracking, which is depressing market prices while adding life to fields once thought exhausted. The ...

Less than five months from the national elections, Prime Minister Huns Sen yesterday warned the public that his ruling CPP party would stop making charitable donations towards infrastructure and national development if the party is not re-elected. Speaking at the inauguration of a Chinese-funded expansion of ...

This publication is the World Bank’s comprehensive review of the region’s economies. It is published twice yearly. ...

PyCon Ghana is organized by volunteers and python enthusiasts from the python programming community in Ghana. We expect speakers from Africa and the rest of the world. Taking place at the Bank of Ghana Auditorium in University of Ghana, the two day conference will bring ...

Earlier this year, CICP has initiated a new research project entitled” Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Water Resources Sharing Platform: Building Voice, Improving Best Practice” with the kind support of Oxfam in Cambodia. The project attempts to explore how to support and positively impact the development of this ...

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Hoàng Hiệp has urged localities nationwide to step up the construction and repair of structures designed to prevent erosion along river banks and coastal areas before the rainy season in order to minimise losses caused by natural ...