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Gold prices unchanged at B18,200
Thailand’s Gold Traders Association have announced buying prices at 17,843.32 baht per baht weight for gold ornaments. Keep reading ...
Cambodian youth fear joblessness
Unemployment is the top worry for Cambodian youth, according to a survey released on 7 August. Almost half – 49 per cent – of 630 people surveyed across the country cited unemployment as their main concern in the survey conducted by the Youth Committee for Unity ...
Overseas Vietnamese granted import tax exemption on used cars
According to a new Government decree, a tax exemption on used cars imported to Vietnam has been given for Viet kieu (Overseas Vietnamese), who are intellectuals, experts and skilled workers. Keep reading ...
Vietnamese Government to create most favourable conditions for Malaysian investors
Vietnam always welcomes and will create the most favourable conditions for Malaysian investors and those from other ASEAN member states to do business in the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung affirmed at the dialogue with members of the ASEAN Business Club and Malaysian enterprises ...
Myanmar flood relief donor drowns
A woman from Myanmar’s Sagaing Region drowned while trying to bring supplies to relatives in a flood-ravaged town on 7 August, according to local officials. Ma Ye Ye Tun, 25, was ferrying donations with three other women from Kama village when their boat capsized, U Soe ...
Decline in price of rubber leaves Cambodian farmers scrambling
As of last year, rubber trees occupied more than 357,000 hectares in Cambodia, with more than 90,000 hectares old enough for cultivation. Now, some farmers are regretting their choice of cash crop, after a rough three years in which rubber prices have plummeted. “It’s good for ...
Singapore programme helps Thai flood victims overcome trauma
Over the past three years, an international collaboration facilitated by the Singapore Institute of Mental Health has improved the capacity of mental health workers in China, Indonesia and Thailand to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One PTSD sufferer was 60-year old Nucharee, a farmer and ...
Thailand's IEA signs deal for largest ASEAN wind farm in south Laos
Thai renewable company Impact Energy Asia (IEA) plans to build the largest wind farm in ASEAN – and generate 600 megawatts on 400,000 rai in southern Laos – under an agreement signed by the Lao government and the company on 7 August. “Called Monsoon Wind Farm, the US$1.5 ...
Thai justice minister suggests Cambodia and Vietnam join “safe Mekong” anti-drug operation
Thai Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya says Thailand and Laos are considering inviting Cambodia and Vietnam to join the “Safe Mekong” anti-drug operation. Gen Paiboon was speaking after attending the 15th bilateral meeting between Thai and Lao delegates on the joint effort to prevent and combat drug ...
Southeast Asia’s biggest-ever drug warehouse raided by Vietnamese, Laotian detectives
After months of tracing and identifying the baron of a drug smuggling ring, forces from Vietnam and Laos raided the organization last month, seizing 5.5 metric tons of drugs – the biggest smuggling case ever uncovered in Southeast Asia. Noticeably, the swoop on the huge drug ...
