Ministries and other national bodies

The government’s mobile task force teams, which aimed to clamp down on the country’s thriving illegal border trade, have been abolished, the Ministry of Commerce announced on 30 December. “All teams will stop, starting from today,” Than Win, the director of the Ministry of Commerce, told ...

Cambodia’s Labour Minister Ith Samheng made a lengthy defence of the draft trade union law on 30 December, claiming it would stabilise the Kingdom’s troubled labour relations, even as he pledged to find the “mastermind” behind recent protests in the Svay Rieng town of Bavet. Speaking ...

Senior officials at Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior have concluded a preliminary investigation into allegations that Cambodians living along the border with Vietnam have been illegally leasing land to Vietnamese farmers. About 1,000 families owning almost 7,000 hectares of land in five provinces have rented the territory out ...

The current government headed by President U Thein Sein has proposed a K24 trillion (US$18.4 billion) budget for the incoming government, including a K3.9 trillion deficit – more than $3 billion at current exchange rates. The draft was submitted to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on 22 ...

Transition committees set up to ensure a smooth handover of power are to meet four times a week until March, a senior National League for Democracy member said on 16 December. The government and NLD both formed eight-member teams on December 10 to coordinate the transition ...

Vietnam National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung held talks with visiting President of the Cambodia Senate Say Chhum in Hanoi on 16 December, dealing with an array of important issues of comprehensive co-operation between the two legislatures. Hailing Cambodia’s developmental achievements made recently, Hung reasserted that ...

The Anti-Money Laundering Intelligence Unit under the Bank of Laos and Korea Financial Intelligence Unit signed a memorandum of understanding to exchange information on preventing money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The MoU was signed on 16 December in Vientiane between Director General of the Anti-Money Laundering ...

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong urged Vietnam and Cambodia’s defence ministries to strengthen their co-operation at a reception on 12 December for Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tea Banh. Keep reading ...

India values its relations with Laos as the two countries share a long history of cultural relations over centuries, Union Tourism and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said on 11 December. Keep reading ...

Senior officials from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia on 10 December signed a joint statement on drug control co-operation, vowing to make the ASEAN bloc drug-free at the 15th Trilateral and Bilateral Ministerial Meeting of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos on Drug Control Co-operation. The joint statement was inked ...