The Council of Ministers agreed on 9 October to invest about $62 million in the fledgling Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which is expected to start operating by the end of the year. Keep reading ...

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 ...

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received a visiting Lao delegation led by Politburo member and Deputy Prime Minister Somsavad Lengsavad in Hanoi on 19 September. Keep reading ...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has allowed some groups or sectors to be excluded from a nationwide curfew that keeps people at home to facilitate their work.In a televised update on Friday, Gen Prayut said he had signed an order to allow people in selected sectors ...

Thailand is spearheading a new Southeast Asian fund for infrastructure and development projects, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told a summit in Bangkok on Saturday, a bid to counter reliance on Asian giants, such as China.Keep reading ...

Thailand has invited Norway to join “friendly help” trilateral development projects in Myanmar’s conflict-torn Rakhine state, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said on Wednesday (August 1).Keep reading ...

Child abuse is a common problem in Vietnam. All forms of child abuse – emotional and physical – have a negative emotional effect on the child. In some cases, the child’s physical health and memory are also affected. Keep reading ...

Myanmar has formed a national committee on minimum wage again, to improve wages in the country. The committee, which was set up last week, includes financial experts, ministries and representatives from labour and employer groups.Keep reading  ...

The public investment restructuring scheme in 2017-20 will focus on core sectors of the economy and major projects that give impetus to socio-economic development and promote public and foreign investments under public-private partnership (PPP) practice.Keep reading ...

Power drawn from renewable energy is expected to soar in the future, although the country’s capacity to integrate this source of energy into the national power grid is still limited, possibly causing throttling on the network.Keep reading ...

A student human rights advocacy group in Thailand’s Deep South, PerMAS, has called on the Government to stop arming civilians and to stop dragging them into the armed conflict between government officials and southern insurgents.In a statement issued today (Thursday), the group called on the ...

The government’s domestic tourism goal of 200 million trips this year is achievable, though it depends on state support via more stimulus plans, says the Association of Domestic Travel (ADT).Operators would like the government to flatten the infection rate curve from the hundreds daily to ...

The Finance Ministry expects the baht’s value to rebound in the second half this year, in line with the anticipated narrowing of the current account deficit, says a ministry source who requested anonymity.According to Reuters, Bank of Thailand officials said yesterday the bank will let ...

Senior government officials from ASEAN member countries, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada and the US participated in a two-day conference on the global synthetic drug problem in Hà Nội.Keep reading ...

The Tourism Authority of Thailand has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with seven partner organisations to drive efforts to reach zero-emission tourism goals.Partners in the project come from three ministries – Ministry of Tourism and Sports, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, and Ministry of ...

Vietnam has planted a total of 130,858ha of production forest, equal to 67 percent of the year’s plan and a rise of 104.5 percent year-on-year.Keep reading ...

Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan suggested the Prime Minister assign administrative units to reduce personnel by 2 percent per year during a teleconference between the Government and localities on July 2. Keep reading ...

A proposal by a regional Member of Parliament to discuss the weaknesses of the public transportation system in the Yangon Region has been submitted to the Yangon Region Hluttaw on April 5.Keep reading ...

Faculty of Economics and Business Management under the National University of Laos (NUOL) will commence a Doctor of Philosophy Programme in Economics in March next year following a launch ceremony on Wednesday.More ...

On average, 23 people per 100,000 die of liver cancer in Vietnam, amOng the highest rates in the world, according to a report by the World Cancer Research Fund InternatiOnal.Keep reading ...