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    Poor Governance Seen as Hindering Cambodia’s Growth

    Cambodia continues to rank near the bottom in almost all global development indicators but left the group of least developed countries in 2015, upgrading its status to a low-middle income country. However, according to the World Bank, about a fifth of Cambodians still live below ...

    Cambodian NGOs Reject Invitation to Regional Forum on Proposed Lao Dams

    A Cambodian coalition of NGOs dedicated to raising public awareness about the risks associated with dams on the Mekong River said Thursday that it will boycott a regional stakeholder forum for two proposed hydropower projects in Laos because its concerns were ignored by the organizing ...

    Hitachi Eyes Mekong Delta As Modernization Hits

    Japanese conglomerate Hitachi is looking to Mekong Delta to boost infrastructure demand as modernization takes hold in Southeast Asia. Hitachi’s Asia and India chairman Kojin Nakakita sat down with Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin on the sideline of Asean WEF Summit in Hanoi. Hitachi sees Southeast Asia ...

    Cambodia leader tells world to stay out of Indochina politics

    Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday that countries outside Indochina are too critical of politics in the region and that it should be left to solve its own problems. Keep reading ...

    New initiatives launched to end malaria in ASEAN

    Two new initiatives to accelerate the elimination of malaria and improve health outcomes in the ASEAN region were announced in Hanoi on September 13 in the framework of the ongoing World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018. Keep reading ...

    How better hydropower planning can avert future disasters on the Mekong

    Those in power must give stronger voices to marginalised communities and protection to natural flood defences, say experts from the Stockholm Environment Institute. Keep reading ...

    Flood in the Mekong Delta through satellite remote sensing

    In order to quickly provide information on flooded areas in the Mekong Delta, the Vietnam Space Centre, under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), has used the image of Radar Remote Sensing Satellites sent by the Sentinel- 1 of the European Space Agency ...

    Mekong region leaders envision interference-free future

    Leaders of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand agreed on a common vision to push for the region’s true potential while at the Asean World Economic Forum in Vietnam this week. Prime Minister Hun Sen said during his closing remarks that each country in the ...

    Industry 4.0 brings about opportunities for Mekong integration: PM

    The fourth Industrial Revolution has created great opportunities for promoting the integration of the Mekong countries, with the increasingly important role of soft and digital connectivity in economic connectivity, stated Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Keep reading ...

    AI may affect 28 million jobs in ASEAN

    The increasing application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology could affect over 28 million jobs in ASEAN countries in the next 10 years, news website Vietnamplus reported, citing a report released by Cisco Group on September 12 at the 2018 World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ...

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