Aid and development
Bilateral development assistance
Help clear mines, Canada urged
Cambodia has asked Canada to consider resuming aid for demining. Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn made the request when he met Canadian ambassador Donica Pottie, who is based in Bangkok, at the Foreign Ministry on February 16. Canada’s development aid for Cambodia, including assistance on demining, ended ...
KOICA extends support for immigration capacity development
The Korea International Cooperation Agency will provide grant aid of US$8.6 million to support Laos’s immigration capacity development project. The aid will fund the project to improve systems and institutional capacity building for the Immigration Department at the Ministry of Public Security from 2017 to ...
$158 million to develop agriculture
The United States Agency for International Development and the International Fund for Agricultural Development jointly agreed on February 7 in an agreement to earmark $158 million as support to the kingdom’s Agricultural Strategic Development Plan. “The agreement will oversee the development and enactment of policies with the ...
PM affirms ‘One-China’ stance
Prime Minister Hun Sen has told a solidarity dinner with the Cambodian-Chinese Association that Cambodia backs the “One-China policy” and will not allow the Taiwanese flag to be raised in the kingdom. This stance would avoid affecting the good relationship between the two countries. “I could not ...
Cambodia to protect European patents
Cambodia is set to become the first country in Southeast Asia to recognise and protect European patents after the Minister of Industry and Handicrafts signed an agreement with the European Patent Office on January 24. The agreement, expected to come into effect in July, places ...
EU, French Red Cross provide 1.67b kip to reduce disaster risks
The European Union and French Red Cross donated some 191,900 euro or more than 1.67 billion kip to the Lao Red Cross on January 18 to scale up Community Based Disaster Risk Management and school safety in five villages of Yommalath district, Khammuan province. The Memorandum ...
Japan signs agreement to give ODA five projects in Myanmar
Japan signed an agreement in Nay Pyi Taw on January 18 to provide Official Development Assistance to Myanmar for five projects worth US$824 million, according to the Japanese Embassy in Myanmar. The ODA is set to be used for the renovation and maintenance of Yangon-Mandalay ...
Mine clearance death probed
Authorities have launched an investigation into how one deminer was killed and another was seriously injured during an operation in Pailin province. Provincial police chief Brigadier General Chea Chandin said the explosion happened in a forested area at about 7am on Friday. Halo Trust deminer Loeung Reaksmey, ...
US builds blood centre for southern provinces
The US Embassy to Laos has built a blood centre in Champassak province as one of several major infrastructure assistance projects completed last year, at a total cost of over US$850,000. The new blood centre will provide emergency blood services to people in the southern ...
PM okays new bypass, road in Mekong Delta
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved construction of a bypass and road that will connect with National Highway No. 91. The 15.3-km long bypass, which will go around Long Xuyên City, will extend from National Highway No. 80 and the Lộ Tẻ intersection to ...
