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Food shipments expected to rebound after 2015 slip
Despite a contraction of 1.9% last year, Thailand’s National Food Institute (NFI) expects food exports this year will grow by 5.8%. The optimism is based largely on rising demand for some food segments in neighbouring emerging markets and government efforts to boost exports. NFI president Yongvut Saovapruk attributed ...
Magical Laotian town preserved by UNESCO
It is officially described as the best-preserved city in Southeast Asia, a bygone seat of kings tucked into a remote river valley of Laos. Luang Prabang weaves a never-never land spell on many a visitor with its tapestry of French colonial villas and Buddhist temples draped ...
Thai Government media campaign to promote Chao Phraya project
Construction of the controversial Bt14-billion Chao Phraya Landmark project is expected to start early next year, according to a source close to the project. The source also said on 21 February that Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan had ordered state radio and TV stations ...
Sihanoukville beach businesses take fears to assembly
More than 100 businesses from three Sihanoukville beaches hand-delivered a petition to Cambodia’s National Assembly on 18 February, calling for the prime minister to intervene in a government directive to have them evicted. Keep reading ...
South Korean company to invest in resort complex project
A company from the Republic of Korea (ROK) is intending to carry out a Lao Resort Complex Project in Phonhong district, Vientiane province, one of the mega projects to be developed in Laos. If the project is approved by the Lao government, the total value of ...
Lao Cai braces for ‘tourism year'
The northern province of Lao Cai is concentrating on developing local tourist attractions in order to host the National Tourism Year in 2017. Ha Van Thang, Director of the Lao Cai Culture, Sports and Tourism Department, said the province will create a series of local tourism ...
New auto sector strategy released
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued a decision regarding the mechanisms and policies needed to implement the strategy for Vietnam’s automobile industry development through 2025, with a vision toward 2035. The measures will also cover the master plan for Vietnam’s automobile industry development through ...
Seven community-based tourism projects planned in Myanmar
Myanmar’s first community-based tourism (CBT) project, one of seven planned, is up and running in Magway region, much to the delight of local residents. At a recent launch event here, community leader San Htun said the members of four villages joining the scheme threw full support ...
That Luang Marsh SEZ condos have wide appeal
A majority of people buying condo apartments at That Luang Marsh Specific Economic Zone (SEZ) in Vientiane are Lao or of Lao origin living in France, officials in charge of the project have said. Vice President of the zone’s management board Mr Pheng Inthilath told Vientiane ...
Community tourism begins to pay in Magwe
Community-based tourism is finally paying off in rural Magwe Region, says a local NGO official. A four-year project in Myaing township has hosted its first tourists, according to U Aung Min Naing, regional manager of ActionAid Myanmar. ActionAid launched the project in 2012 in the Inn ...
