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Malaysia leads top foreign investors in Champassak province
Malaysia tops the list of investors in Champassak province during the last nine months of this year, which covered 37 percent of all foreign investment in the province. This was as reported by Provincial Governor Dr. Bounthong Divixay when he and Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Sonexay ...
Environmentalists’ objections convince Shan parliament to reconsider building site
The speaker of the Shan State legislature has pledged to reconsider the location for the construction of a new regional parliamentary building after environmental activists voiced objections to the proposed site in the state capital of Taunggyi. Those in opposition to the plan launched a signature ...
What are Brunei's priorities for ASEAN health?
For the next two years, Brunei will assume the chairmanship within ASEAN for the Senior Officials Meeting on Health Development and the ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting. With the official handing over of the chairmanship from Vietnam to Brunei at the 11th Senior Officials Meeting on Health ...
ASEAN still has much to accomplish, FM Retno says at bloc's 49th anniversary
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi said the Association of Southeast Asian Nations still has much to accomplish in the future as the regional bloc celebrated its 49th anniversary on August 15. Speaking during the celebration at the offices of the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Retno said she believes ...
The changing face of Japan-ASEAN aid
Japan’s foreign aid toolkit has been expanding since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December 2012, as he seeks to shore up Japan’s influence in South-east Asia in the face of muscle-flexing by China. Japan announced on August 12 that it would give two new large ...
Vietnam gives top priority to relationship with Laos: President
The Party, State and people of Vietnam always give highest priority to consolidating and enhancing the time-honoured friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, President Tran Dai Quang told visiting Vice Chairman of the Lao National Assembly Somphan Phengkhammy on August 15. For his part, ...
Laos' thirst for Mekong River dams imperils fishing, farming
Dismissing its neighbors’ pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia’s poorest people. Landlocked Laos is Southeast Asia’s poorest state, and all its neighbors far exceed its population of 7 million. But by virtue ...
China's lack of cooperation causing problems for Vietnam's water resources programming
The lack of cooperation from China and its erratic methods of water storage and discharge has placed Vietnam in a passive mode when using water from the Red River. Tong Ngoc Thanh, director of the National Center for Water Resources Planning and Investigation, said at a ...
Foreign media interest ahead of regional leaders summits in Laos
Over 5,000 official delegates and business leaders, of whom 200 are foreign media personnel, will attend and cover the 28th and 29th ASEAN summits to be held back-to-back in Vientiane early next month. The Ministry of Foreign Affair’s Press Department reported on August 12 that more than ...
Numerous bombs in the South after Hua Hin blasts
A string of explosions rocked southern provinces as the nation celebrated Her Majesty the Queen’s birthday. The blasts on August 5 came just hours after one person was killed and nearly 20 injured, including foreign tourists, by two explosions in Hua Hin, Thailand on the ...
