To Court Students, Vocational Programs Get a Makeover

One slickly produced television ad tells students “to join the community of minds that craves to learn,” as three teenagers assemble an elec...

Electronic Registration System to Help Voters Vote

The National Election Committee (NEC) will begin testing a new electronic voter registration system early next month that introduces safegua...

Sugar Diamonds Pay Off For an Artist

Twisting it with burnt fingertips and cutting with miniature scissors, sugar art master Kim Han quickly forms a bunch of grapes from molten ...

Jailed Senator: It Wasn’t Me

Jailed opposition senator Hong Sok Hour has insisted that he had not doctored a 1979 border treaty with Vietnam, saying instead he had found...

Facebook founder calls for universal Internet to help cure global ills

UNITED NATIONS, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and a host of celebrities kicked off a campaign on Saturda...

Sustainable development agenda adopted by 193 UN member states

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- A momentous sustainable development agenda, which charts a new era of sustainable development until 2...

Pakistan confirms 7 nationals die in Saudi pilgrimage stampede

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani officials Friday confirmed seven pilgrims have been killed in stampede during pilgrimage in Saud...

New UN Rights Envoy Seeks ‘Balance’

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – United Nations human rights envoy Rhona Smith concluded her fact-finding visit here yesterday by praising what ...

Trafficking Survivors Return With Trauma

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Rescue does not end trauma. Most Cambodian men and boys brought home from Thai fishing boats return with symp...

Thousands Affected by Kampot Floods

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Hundreds of homes and businesses have been flooded in Kampot province and city over the past 48 hours due to re...

Japan Boosts Vietnam Naval Might Amid China Jitters

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan has promised Vietnam ships to strengthen its forces in the South China Sea, with the two nations describing large-scal...

Rivers Swell as Flooding Moves South in Myanmar

Hinthada, MYANMAR (AFP) – President Thein Sein called yesterday for the evacuation of low-lying areas as the Irrawaddy River threatened to...

South China Sea Land Reclamation Halted, Beijing says

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – China said yesterday it has finished the land reclamation work in the South China Sea that has brought growing condemna...