Govt boosts Covid war chest
The cabinet yesterday approved an 11.3-billion-baht budget to deal with the re-emerging of Covid-19.The amount will be spent on 10 projects, grouped into preventive measures (4.3 billion baht), treatment (7 billion) and support (27 million), according to deputy government spokeswoman Rachada Dhnadirek.Keep reading ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
BoT prepares more baht measures
The Bank of Thailand stands ready to implement additional measures to manage the strengthening baht under a targeted policy, on both a short-term and long-term basis.The central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has expressed concerns over the rapid appreciation of the baht as this affects ...
Somruedi Banchongduang
Rakhine’s Tha Htay Chaung Hydro Dam Nearly 50 Percent Complete
Construction on the Tha Htay Chaung Hydropower Dam in Rakhine State is almost 50 percent complete, with electricity production to begin in the next few years, according to the regional government.The project has reached 42.74 percent complete at a cost of K17 billion, said U ...
Corruption report hotlines launched
The Government Inspectorate’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has launched two hotline numbers and an email address to receive public reports on corruption.Complaints related to corruption cases can be reported through a phone call to 08048228 (during working hours) or a message to 0911156161.The bureau also receives reports through ...
Mongolia and Laos to improve inter-parliamentary cooperation
AKIPRESS.COM – Head of the Mongolia-Laos group in the Parliament, MP Yo.Baatarbileg received Laotian delegates led by Lao Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, member of the National Assembly of Laos, deputy director of the Laos-Mongolia group in the National Assembly Bounkhouang Khambounheuang, who is on ...
AKIpress editor
Saving Laos from global warming
The fragile relationship between agriculture and climate in Laos is imperiled. From the riverine paddies to the limestone karst, Laos’ subsistence farmers—about 80 percent of the rural population—depend on getting the right amount of rain at the right time. But in recent years, changes in ...
Fund tasked with restructuring farmers' debt
Deputy Prime Minister Jurin Laksanawisit has ordered the Office of the Farmers Rehabilitation and Development Fund to study debt restructuring of 46,000 farmers with a debt of Bt15 billion, deputy spokeswoman Ratchada Thanadirek said after a meeting of the Farmers Rehabilitation and Development Fund Committee ...
The Nation Reporter
Economic development more important than democratic reforms, IRI survey
The Myanmar people are more concerned about the economy even as they expressed satisfaction about the country’s democratic reforms, according to a nationwide survey released on Tuesday. forty percent of the 3000 respondents in the International Republican Institute (IRI) survey rated economic development as more ...
Thailand, Laos launch forest fire prevention campaign
Bangkok (NNT/VNA) – Thailand and Laos have launched an annual campaign to prevent and address forest fire between both countries.The Governor of Chiang Rai, Prachon Prachsakul, welcomed a delegation of 30 people from Laos during the launch at Phu Chi Fa forest Park in the northern ...
NNT/VNA
12 excellent works received the Mekong Literature Award
The 9th Mekong Literature Prize was awarded by the Vietnam Writers Association on June 15, in Hanoi.Attending this important event are 30 writers from 6 delegations of member countries in the Mekong sub-region. 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 ...
With official help, radical Buddhists target Muslim businesses
Myanmar’s Muslim minority make up about 5 percent of the country’s predominantly Buddhist population and Muslims living in the delta rely heavily on the slaughterhouse business and the beef trade. Now Muslim businesses have become the target of anti-Islamic sentiment propagated by radical Buddhists who have found ...
Vietnam eyes power imports from China, Laos
Vietnam might have to import power from China and Laos after 2020, says a senior official. “There is a real risk of power shortages in 2021-2023, and the risk will get higher if consumption surpasses forecasts in the coming years,” Hoang Quoc Vuong, Deputy Minister of ...
Anh Minh
Symposium highlights approaches to improving Asian child nutrition
Many Vietnamese and foreign experts shared the latest perspectives on and novel approaches to improving the nutritional status of Asian children at the FrieslandCampina Institute Asia Pacific Symposium held recently in Ho Chi Minh City.The experts also discussed the diagnosis of functional gastrointestinal disorders and ...
Screening needed to reduce birth defects in VN
Every 13 minutes a child is born with congenital anomalies in Vietnam, putting a burden on their families and the health sector as well as affecting the quality of the population.Screening and diagnosis of prenatal and neonatal diseases to provide timely intervention in the fetal ...
Gov’t offices to trim 4,000 staff this year
As many as 265,106 civil servants will be included in the State payroll this year, a year-on-year decrease of about 4,000, according to a Prime Minister’s decision that takes effect this month. The employment number does not include those working at the Public Security Ministry, Defence ...
VietnamNet Reporter
Vietnam sets 17 sustainable development goals to 2030
The Government has set 17 sustainable development goals to 2030, in Decree No 136/NQ-CP which was issued recently.The decree outlines general tasks and solutions to realise the goals, with focus sharpened on completing institutions and policies, enhancing communications, promoting the role of and participation by ...
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Mangrove Conservation Coordinator
The Open Development Initiative (ODI) program of the East-West Management Institute (EWMI) is supporting a Mangroves for Coastal Resilience Initiative, which aims to conduct a coastal and riparian stakeholder mapping in order to enhance evidence-based policy advocacy to strengthen the governance structures and tenure rights of communities who rely ...
Cambodia grants mine exploratory licenses to 24 firms in 2011: gov't report
Cambodia’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy had issued mineral resource exploratory licenses to 24 local and foreign companies in the past year. According to the annual report of the ministry’s mineral resources department released on Friday, the firms are mostly Cambodian-owned ones and those from ...
Xinhua
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7753471.html
Gov’t to spend $8.2 billion this year
The government will spend more than $8 billion and take out $2 billion in foreign loans this year, according to the 2020 National Budget Law, which was made public on Tuesday after being signed off by King Norodom Sihamoni. The government will spend some $8.196 ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-spend-82-billion-year