People and government

The second phase of China’s Brightness Journey, an initiative focusing on human resources under the Lancang Mekong Cooperation, was launched yesterday at the Toun Fa Chinese School in Phnom Penh. Keep reading ...

“My son in primary school did not attend a birthday celebration because it was cancelled due to bad air — and we live in Seoul, a great place to live,” said Dr. Frank Rijsberman, director-general of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). He was speaking to ...

Vietnam asks China, as a large nation in the region and the world, to perform its responsibility in maintaining peace and stability in the East Sea, stated Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang on May 8. Hang was in reply to reporters’ questions related to ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will set aside $339.4 million for grants and technical assistance to low-income and developing member countries as approved during the just-concluded annual meeting of its board of governors. In a statement, the Manila-based lender said the board had approved $690.1 million ...

A navy patrol seized 200kg of compressed marijuana worth about 4 million baht on the bank of the Mekong River in Ban Phaeng district overnight, but the smugglers fled in their long-tail boat. The smugglers were on the riverbank with the marijuana when the patrol arrived, ...

Although the Mekong is popularly seen as a South East Asian river, its headwaters are located in China, where it is known as the Lancang. From there it flows through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The future of the Mekong, though, will be heavily ...

The Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA) and DT Families Foundation have signed an agreement that will make a tangible difference to permanently eliminating malaria in Thailand. []The threat from the mosquito-borne infectious disease has also risen dramatically with the recent emergence of drug-resistant strains in ...

The White House has issued a warning to China over its increased military presence in the hotly contested South China Sea. “We’re well aware of China’s militarization of the South China Sea,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters, adding that there would ...

The 11th Lower Mekong Initiative and Friends of Lower Mekong Region Working Group Meeting, jointly organised by Myanmar and the United States, commenced at M Gallery Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw on May 3. The two-day meeting is being attended by delegates from Myanmar, the US, ...

The UN’s human rights expert for Myanmar has raised alarm over a lethal escalation in hostilities in the country’s Kachin state, warning that civilians had been killed and displaced in recent government bombing. Keep reading ...