Proceeds from Southeast Asia’s initial public offerings plunged 34% on the year in 2018, the first decline in two years, as Sino-American trade tensions depressed investor sentiment. But even as Southeast Asian listings lost steam, the region’s fastest-growing economy of Vietnam increased its IPO market presence ...

The row over a plan to purchase land from a community behind the old Mor Chit Bus Terminal to build an elevated road as part of a “smart city” project around the mass transit station has raised questions about the way the state spends taxpayer ...

A recent geopolitical crisis has raised concerns in the global oil market. The Ministry of Energy has prepared measures to handle the situation in the form of oil reserves and pricing measures to minimize any potential effects on the general public.The Minister of Energy Sonthirat ...

Vietnam Energy Outlook Report 2019 (EOR), one of the outstanding results of the cooperation between Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and Denmark’s Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate, was launched in Hanoi on November 4.The EOR presented three scenarios to achieve the goal of ...

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Hung led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 19th ASEAN Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministers Meeting (TELMIN 19) that opened in Vientiane on October 24.The annual event aims to strengthen ICT cooperation among the ASEAN member countries ...

Việt Nam Environment Administration (VEA), under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in coordination with UNDP launched a Biosphere Reserves (BRs) management project on Tuesday morning (27/10) in Hà Nội.The project “Mainstreaming Natural Resource Management and Biodiversity Conservation Objectives into Socio-Economic Development Planning and ...

The majority of people globally, including Thailand, are worried about economic recession, rising product prices and unemployment, global market research company Ipsos said on Tuesday.The company cited its research “Ipsos Global Trend 2023” conducted among more than 48,000 people in 50 countries. About 1,000 of ...

In an effort to bring modern technology into education, Vietnam’s tech giant FPT on August 27 launched the VioEdu online e-learning system – the nation’s first smart education assistant using artificial intelligence (AI).According to Le Hong Viet, FPT Technology Director, VioEdu at https://vio.edu.vn helps students ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The National Institute of Fine Arts (NIFA) exhibited carved peach pits on Thursday at the conclusion of a special workshop conducted by a Chinese trainer.The carved pits were very beautiful and in many forms and sizes, such as Buddha images, flowers ...

In an effort to ensure the legality of its entire timber supply chain and exports, Viet Nam has developed a draft Timber Legality Assurance System (VNTLAS) Decree to go into effect later this year.VNTLAS is a part of Viet Nam’s Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with ...

SK E&C attempted to earn excessive profits with changes to the format and design of a dam in Laos that eventually collapsed last July, an internal document confirmed on Oct. 14. Indeed, the heights of the collapsed dam and other auxiliary dams handled by SK ...

China and Thailand on Tuesday said they will further enhance cooperation in multilateral mechanisms and join hands to cope with growing protectionism to push forward a more open and balanced world economy.According to a joint press statement released during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s official visit ...

Headline inflation in August contracted 0.02% year-on-year, the first drop in five months, after the decline of fresh food prices and the government’s launch of stimulus measures to ease the cost of living during the pandemic, says Wuttipong Jittungsakul, deputy spokesperson of the Fiscal Policy ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government has acknowledged that it needs to be well prepared to provide transit services in an effort to benefit from the Laos-China railway.Minister of Planning and Investment Dr Souphan Keomixay told Vientiane Times recently that the government is encouraging private enterprises to develop ...

From January 1, the digital health pass on Thailands Morprom platform will be accepted in the 60 countries/territories that already accept the EU Digital Covid Certificate.Thailands Morprom digital health pass to be accepted in 60 countriesThe Morprom system lists the user’s vaccination history, test results, ...

The Royal Irrigation Department has confirmed that current water management operations are on track, with enough water in reserve until July in case of rain shortages. The army has mobilized its personnel to assist villagers in severely affected areas.In Uthai Thani province, the Royal Thai ...

A civic group protested in front of the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry building on Friday as part of a campaign to pressure the government to resettle ethnic Karen villagers displaced from the Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi over a decade ago.Twenty activists and ...

(KPL) Belt and Road News Network –BRNN- will become the bigger window to provide people around the world an easier access to rich sources of information.The 1st Council Meeting of the Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) was held on April 23 in Beijing, China to discuss and ...

Unclear delineation of the roles of state agencies in managing waste has made a mess of sorting and collecting trash in Vietnam. Vietnam is sorting trash in four different ways and one type of trash is put under the eyes of up to six ministries.Vietnam still ...

The government says the much-touted Eastern Economic Corridor is ready to be an important part of China’s one Belt, one Road initiative, which envisions connectivity between China and Eurasia. Speaking Monday at a seminar entitled “Thailand-Hong Kong-Shanghai Strategic Partnership on one Belt, one Road,” Deputy ...