Agricultural sector continues to be economy's pillar
Ecological agriculture, modern rural areas and smart farmers are expected to be the three key factors helping agriculture secure its role as a firm pillar of the economy in 2022 and following years.Despite COVID-19 impacts that caused the crackdown of the global supply chains in 2021, the ...
PUBLIC SEMINAR: Understanding the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Framework and China’s role in the Mekong Region"
The Centre for Social Development Studies (CSDS) and the Faculty of Political Science – Chulalongkorn University, together with Chinadialogue, The Third Pole, and Earth Journalism Network, will be organising a public forum on “Understanding the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Framework and China’s role in the Mekong Region.”The ...
MOLISA proposes 12.5 percent increase in pension and allowance
The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) has suggested the Government increase pensions and social insurance benefits, and monthly allowances.In its draft decree submitted to the Government, the ministry suggested a 15.5 percent increase in pensions, social insurance benefits, and monthly, starting from ...
How does yuan price reduction affect garment, footwear industries?
The sudden depreciation of Chinese yuan against the US dollar brings more difficulties to Vietnam’s yarn industry, according to Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS).Vietnam imports cotton from the US to make yarn products for export to China. If the yuan continues to fall, Vietnam’s yarn ...
No-contract, informal workers don’t enjoy social welfare policies
As many as 76.7 per cent of informal workers do not have a contract of employment and do not enjoy social welfare policies. []The country had 40 million informal labourers, including 18 million people doing non-agricultural jobs (no-contract workers at construction sites, household-scaled production, small traders) ...
VNS Reporter
Vietnam Protects Coastal Communities Vulnerable to Climate Change
Vietnam began today with the help of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) a project aimed at strengthening the adaptability of coastal communities vulnerable to climate change. Executable for five years and valued at some 30 million dollars that will contribute the Green Climate Fund, ...
Prensa Latina Reporter
Heatwaves, scanty rainfall pose threat of large-scale power shortage
Heatwaves and scanty rainfall have resulted in low water levels in hydropower dams whereas the presence of heatwaves means a frenzied electricity demand in the affected areas.According to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological forecasting, the El Nino phenomenon occurs from about June or July and ...
Anh Quan, Van Phuc
LDB, LJI join forces to boost Lao SME development
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Lao Development Bank (LDB) is partnering with the Laos-Japan Human Resource Development Institute (LJI) to boost capacity building for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Laos.A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under the cooperation of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) ...
News Desk
Thai food company eyes larger share of market in Laos
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Thailand’s Heritage Snack & Food Company Limited is eyeing a larger share of the market in Laos after having exported its products to this region for several years.“We started the import of healthy food products under the Heritage brand, such as ...
Souksamai Boulom
Lao officials review forest, land use in Nam Poui National Biodiversity Conservation Area
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Officials from Xayaboury province and village leaders from Ban Navaen met with staff from World Wide Fund for Nature in Laos (WWF-Laos) in Phiang district earlier this month to review the outcome of the survey and mapping of household land use ...
News Desk
Plan to boost cashless payments in Laos
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL) is drafting a plan to promote cashless payments and to facilitate and manage money transactions in Laos.Use of e-wallets through the banking system is fast becoming a trend among city dwellers. They pay their ...
Manichanh Pansivongxay
WB-funded water supply–sanitation project benefits 1.4 million people
The World Bank-funded Program for Results (PforR) of rural water supply and sanitation in eight Red River Delta provinces has so far benefited 1.4 million residents. The programme, co-launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the World Bank (WB) in 2013, aimed ...
Vietnam to have 98 more automatic air quality monitoring stations by 2030
Ninety-eight continuous automatic air quality monitoring stations will be constructed across the country between now and 2030, pushing the total number to 201. After 2030, 15 more continuous automatic air quality monitoring stations are planned to be built.The plan also requires integrating noise monitoring at 216 stations ...
VN helps Laos to build map database
Visitors to Laos won’t have any excuse for getting lost after a detailed map was created after a four-year partnership between the country and Việt Nam. The full database of the terrain information along with ratio map of 1/50,000 covers 170,000 sq.km of the northern ...
VNS Reporter
State of Land in the Mekong Region Brief
After a long process of research and consultation involving more than 100 land experts in the region and across the world, CDE and MRLG are thrilled to announce the release of the book: State of Land in the Mekong Region.It highlights key trends that dominate ...
MRLG
Plan approved to realise net-zero emissions goal by 2050
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued a plan for solutions to realise Việt Nam’s commitment to cutting emissions to net zero by 2050 announced at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in the UK in 2021.The ministry will make amendments to ...
A just transition requires a major paradigm shift
Covid-19 is a disease that not only attacks individuals but Thai society. Millions of workers who make subsistence wages or already face household debt now have no income. Thailand is seeing — like much of the world — people sliding back into extreme poverty and ...
Marine Department impresses with tech
Among the government agencies that use technology to improve their public services and ease of doing business, the Marine Department seems to have won the most accolades, cinching the Public Sector Excellence Award for public services conferred this month by the Office of the Public ...
Chatrudee Theparat
From Isaan migrant worker to homeless life in the city [Video]
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Phaiwan Chala lost his job as a truck driver. When he couldn’t pay the rent for his room in Bangkok anymore, he became homeless.Keep watching ...
UEC frustrates with lack of results
Confident of having secured a landslide victory, the opposition National League for Democracy is being frustrated by the slow release of officially sanctioned results by the Union Election Commission. The UEC, headed by ex-general U Tin Aye, says it is working with full transparency and yesterday ...