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Deal struck for migrant workers in Thailand
Thailand has agreed to relax enforcement against expired documents held by migrant Cambodians, which become invalid when they switch jobs without their previous employer’s written consent. The agreement was reached on 19 October during a meeting between Cambodia’s ambassador to Thailand and Thailand’s director general of the Department ...
Migrant workers fear impact of Mae Sot economic zone
The development by the Thai government of a special economic zone at Mae Sot, which is intended to improve trade and communications between Thailand and Myanmar, could have devastating consequences for local inhabitants. Keep reading ...
Vietnam, Cambodia pledge to further co-operative relations
Vietnam and Cambodia vowed to further tighten the traditional friendship and comprehensive co-operation between the two nations in response to the wishes and aspirations of the governments and people of the two nations. Pham Binh Minh, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and his Cambodian ...
Asia-Pacific drug officials meet in Bangkok
High-ranking officials from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry were among 140 delegates from Asia-Pacific nations meeting in Bangkok on 19 October, as a three-day conference on the region’s growing problem of drug production and trafficking got under way. Keep reading ...
Vietnam PM receives senior Laos army official
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung hosted Lieutenant General Suvon Luongbunmi, Chief-of-the-General Staff of the Lao People’s Army and Deputy Minister of Lao Defence Ministry, in Hanoi on the same day. Keep reading ...
China eyes $31bn of investments in Laos border economic zone
China is eyeing total investment of more than 200 billion yuan ($31.45 billion) in 240 projects in a pilot economic zone on the border with Laos, the government of the southwestern province of Yunnan said late on 19 October. Poor and remote, Laos has traditionally been ...
Thai group to manage $1.5bln Vietnam resort
Thailand’s ONYX Hospitality Group has signed an agreement with Vietnam’s HB Group to manage a US$1.5-billion resort that is being built in Hoi An, local authorities announced on 18 October. Keep reading ...
Ready or not, ASEAN economic integration coming, warns banker
“The Philippines is an attractive market without a means to compete,” according to BDO Unibank Inc. president Nestor Tan, expressing worry that Philippine banks are not ready to compete with the bigger banks of neighboring countries with the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community. Keep reading ...
Vietnam, Laos enhance military cooperation
High-ranking military officers of Vietnam and Laos have reviewed the implementation of cooperation programmes between the two countries’ armies at talks in Hanoi on 17 October. Keep reading ...
Chinese arrivals to Cambodia to jump to 2M by 2020
Cambodian tourism authorities are formulating strategies to carve a larger share out of the Chinese outbound tourism market and have set a target of drawing over 700,000 Chinese visitors this year, and up to 2 million a year by 2020. Rising incomes have transformed China into ...
