VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The inflation rate continued to rise in March, with The Lao National Statistics Bureau attributing The growth of The annual Consumer Price index (CPI) due to rising food prices, and not The depreciation of The kip as many people believed.The statistics ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said yesterday that problems surrounding banana plantations in Laos were due to The fact that investors carried out negotiations directly with local communities instead of going through full legal channels.Deputy Minister Bounkhuang Khambounheuang told Vientiane Times that ...

Cambodia has improved overall in protecting children from abuse and exploitation, the United Nations’ first Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) found in a report released yesterday, but the Kingdom has to take greater strides to further safeguard children’s rights. ...

The brand-new Socio-Economic Atlas of The Lao PDR 2015 has been released.This latest atlas, developed by The Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of The University of Bern, togeTher with The Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB), combines statistical data from The last two Population and Housing ...

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have brought almost 70,000 new jobs to the country, according to an Asian Development Bank report released last week. With tax exemptions on production materials, lower profit tax, and renewable leases, the SEZs have drawn foreign-owned factories manufacturing everything from bicycles ...

Herewith the full text of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration adopted by Southeast Asian leaders Sunday: WE, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (hereinafter referred to as “ASEAN”), namely Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday that the country wanted to see more British investors in order to further contribute to developing local economy and reducing poverty. the premier made the remarks during a meeting with visiting British Minister of State at the Foreign and ...

On 03 December 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation has released a statement on further steps to strengthen democracy and political space. the ministry has underlined the position and further steps to be taken to uphold the Royal Government of Cambodia’s aforementioned ...

To boost Chinese investment in Cambodian garment industry, the Textile Enterprise Association of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce also know as TEAC has been officially launched in Phnom Penh.​Enjoy Ho, chairman of TEAC said that they will represent the interests of Chinese textile enterprises in ...

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An environment-monitoring working group from the Environment Ministry and the Council for the Development of Cambodia plans to meet with the owners of nearly 50 special economic zones across the country to promote standards on environmental protection and liquid waste management. ...

Three constitutionally mandated judicial laws would adversely affect the independence of the courts if they are passed in their current draft state, legal experts warned on Friday. Draft versions of the Law on the Organization and Functioning of the Supreme Council of the Magistracy, the Law ...

For the Mekong countries, including Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam, 2018 was a big year both domestically and regionally. Key developments from last year will inevitably continue to shape the politics of the region in 2019. in terms of domestic affairs, the most worrying ...

The Kampong Speu provincial authority said on Wednesday that its task force has completed registering thousands of families in Oral district who have been locked in a long-running land dispute with a sugar plantation owned by a well-connected tycoon. ...

An estimated 7600 pregnant women have been left without access to basic or primary healthcare services for almost two months in the northern Rakhine townships of Maungdaw and Buthidaung since the outbreak of violent conflict in early October.Keep reading ...

The Nippon Foundation will suspend furTher vehicle donations in Burma until all of The cars currently parked at The Rangoon Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital have been deployed, deputy head of The foundation Takehiro Umemura told The Irrawaddy.Keep reading ...

The well-being of women and children in Cambodia has improved vastly in The past 15 years but still lags internationally, according to a report released by The nonprofit organisation Save The Children this week. ...

The Observatory for The Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, said today that The Cambodian Government must end The repression of land rights defenders and immediately release those imprisoned on November 11-12. ...

On May 09 2018, the undersigned of 79 civil society groups, condemn the latest blow to press freedom in Cambodia, with the opaque sale of the Phnom Penh Post, and the new owner’s immediate interference in the paper’s editorial independence, which compelled 13 senior staff and reporters to ...

The shuttered Cambodia Daily announced late on Tuesday night that it has “relaunched” as a noncommercial publication. On its Facebook page, The Daily announced The re-opening as “a digital only, non-commercial publication based off shore”. Several items – including an aggregated news round-up and a “Timeline ...