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Cambodia ready to exit LDC status
Cambodia is well-prepared to minimise economic risks when it graduates from its Least Developed Countries status, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Commerce on May 7. Four LDCs – Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh and Nepal – met at a virtual workshop last week to ...
Thou Vireak
New Zealand earmarks $35,000 for protective forest in Ninh Thuan
New Zealand on Monday announced it would allocate $35,000 to help plant three hectares of forest in the central province of Ninh Thuan. “This is in response to the Vietnam government’s commitment to plant one billion trees by 2025,” a press release from the New Zealand ...
Khanh Lynh
LMC to continue to inject new impetus into China-ASEAN ties, ASEAN community building: Cambodian experts
The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) will continue to inject impetus into the China-ASEAN cooperation and the ASEAN community building towards a more open, inclusive and prosperous region, Cambodian experts said in recent interviews with Xinhua. Launched on March 23, 2016 during the first LMC Leaders’ Meeting in ...
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Thailand’s proposed NGO law will devastate civil society
In 2015, two years before the state-driven collapse of Cambodia’s political opposition, the national government dominated by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) approved the Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations (LANGO). When the law was first put forward in 2011, it was met with significant opposition, ...
MARK S. COGAN
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation vital to promote regional power connectivity, energy cooperation
The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) is crucial to help promote power connectivity and energy cooperation among the six LMC countries, an official at the Electricite Du Cambodge (EDC) said in a recent interview. Prom Sokrith, chief of the administration at the EDC’s Power Plant C7 (400 megawatts) ...
COVID-19 As virus cases explode, why has the Mekong region success story ended?
Few outings to a nightclub can claim such dire consequences as the early-February gathering at N8, a windowless adult entertainment venue in an unsuspecting district of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Two women, unwitting carriers of the more-infectious B.1.1.7 variant of Covid-19, also known as the ...
Alastair McCready, Wanpen Pajai, and Govi Snell
A metropolis arose in medieval Cambodia – new research shows how many people lived in the Angkor Empire over time
How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period, London may have had a population of about a quarter of a million people, growing to approximately 600,000 by ...
Sarah Klassen and Alison Kyra Carter
Talks held with UN to help fleeing Karen
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has held talks with authorities in Mae Hong Son to find ways to help more than 2,000 Karen refugees who crossed the Salaween River into Thailand to flee fighting between the KNU (Karen National Union) and Myanmar ...
Post Reporter
Covid-19 outbreak contributes to elephant population decline in Southern Thailand
There has been a significant decline in the elephant population of Southern Thailand as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. In Phang Nga Province, which normally has more domesticated elephants than any other Southern Thailand province, the elephant population has dropped by a third of ...
Tanutam Thawan
NHSO keeps improving healthcare financial payment system as fighting COVID-19
The COVID-19 outbreak continues to strain healthcare providers physically and financially. As they have to cope with the increased workload associated with screening patients for the new coronavirus infection and treating them if they are infected, the extra work always come with extra costs. Even though, ...
The Nation
