National government
Ministries and other national bodies
Lao Ministry to deploy teachers to wipe out illiteracy
The Ministry of Education and Sports is sending over 20 volunteer teachers to educate illiterate rural areas around the country early next year to replicate an earlier successful Saravan province pilot programme. The teachers will come from the Physical Education Teacher Training College, Dongkhamxang Teacher Training ...
Lawmakers beaten at National Assembly
Opposition lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Sakphea were viciously beaten and left seriously injured on 26 October morning as a protest outside the National Assembly against Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha descended into violence. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party denied any involvement in organising ...
Vietnamese party leader meets with Lao guests
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received a visiting Lao delegation led by Politburo member and Deputy Prime Minister Somsavad Lengsavad in Hanoi on 19 September. Keep reading ...
Vietnam, Cambodia pledge to further co-operative relations
Vietnam and Cambodia vowed to further tighten the traditional friendship and comprehensive co-operation between the two nations in response to the wishes and aspirations of the governments and people of the two nations. Pham Binh Minh, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and his Cambodian ...
Asia-Pacific drug officials meet in Bangkok
High-ranking officials from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry were among 140 delegates from Asia-Pacific nations meeting in Bangkok on 19 October, as a three-day conference on the region’s growing problem of drug production and trafficking got under way. Keep reading ...
Vietnam PM receives senior Laos army official
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung hosted Lieutenant General Suvon Luongbunmi, Chief-of-the-General Staff of the Lao People’s Army and Deputy Minister of Lao Defence Ministry, in Hanoi on the same day. Keep reading ...
Vietnam, Laos enhance military cooperation
High-ranking military officers of Vietnam and Laos have reviewed the implementation of cooperation programmes between the two countries’ armies at talks in Hanoi on 17 October. Keep reading ...
China suggests joint South China Sea drills with ASEAN
China has proposed joint maritime drills with South East Asian nations in the hotly-contested South China Sea in 2016. Beijing is currently hosting an informal meeting for defence ministers from the region. Keep reading ...
Cambodian official facing trial over Facebook post
A Cambodian Information Ministry official has been charged with defamation over a Facebook post accusing a CPP senator of being the mistress of a military general, and has been summoned to trial on 19 October. According to the 5 October summons, Prum San, deputy director of ...
Vietnam slams China’s construction of lighthouses in East Sea
Vietnam resolutely opposes China’s construction of two lighthouses in the Chau Vien (Cuarteron) and Gac Ma (Johnson) reefs in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago, the Foreign Ministry said on 13 October. Keep reading ...