Urban administration and development
Urban development trends
Vietnam's real estate transactions skyrocket in 9 months
Some 30,000 real estate transactions were recorded in the first nine months of 2015, which was tantamount to the combined figures from last year, as heard at a seminar on housing development in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on 7 October. According to Chairman ...
On Cambodia's Tonle Sap, Vietnamese families face mass eviction
The Kompong Chhnang provincial government is in the process of evicting about 1,000 mostly Vietnamese families who live in the floating villages on the Tonle Sap river near the provincial capital, moving them up the river as part of a five-year plan to beautify the ...
Bangkok proposes restrictions on vehicle sales
Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra has proposed an initiative to ban new car purchases for people who don’t have a place to park their vehicles, as part of a raft of new measures to combat traffic congestion. Keep reading ...
ASEAN Economic Community and impacts on Hanoi’s socio-economic development
Hanoi Institute of Socio-economic Development and Economic and Urban Newspaper together hold a city-level scientific workshop named “ASEAN Economic Community and impacts on Hanoi’s socio-economic development”. The workshop aims to evaluate positive impacts and limitations of joining ASEAN economic community towards Hanoi’s economy, culture and society, ...
Developers flock to city hotspot as land prices soar
The Ratchathewi-Phetchaburi zone in Bangkok has become a hotspot attracting significant interest from property developers thanks to its potential to become a major urban transit interchange in 2020. Land prices in the area have risen at a pace comparable with the Siam Square area, according to ...
Bangkok is sinking and may be underwater in 15 years, study says
A new report from Thailand’s government says that Bangkok, its capital city and home to some 14 million people, could be underwater in the next 15 years thanks to a combination of sinking land and rising global sea levels. The conclusion comes from Thailand’s National Reform ...
