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Hydropower dams cause VND5,194,153m in damages to Mekong Delta

Mainstream hydropower projects on the Mekong River caused a loss of VND5,200 billion (USVND5,194,153 million) in seafood and agriculture output to the Mekong Delta, said former Deputy Chairman of National Committee of Science and Technology, Nguyen Ngoc Tran. The announcement came at a conference on the ...

WHO warns of fake drugs

Beware of fake hepatitis medication. The World Health Organization has warned hepatitis C patients that counterfeit medications are being sold in Myanmar. Drugs branded as “Ledso” and “Dakavir” are fakes, according to an alert put out by the WHO. Keep reading ...

In fight against malaria, NGO explores clothes that bite back

Health specialists met in Yangon on 3 March to discuss insect-fighting clothes as a way of eliminating malaria in Myanmar. NGO Malaria Consortium has been testing its insect-treated arsenal with a local at-risk group: rubber tappers in Thanbyuzayat who work in plantations at night when infective mosquitoes ...

Two director generals fired after jade probe

A three-month investigation into dodgy dealings in the murky jade industry has netted dozens of government officials, with two director generals dismissed from their posts earlier this week. The President’s Office on 3 March confirmed that the director generals from two Union government ministries, as well as ...

Low-cost homes capped at B250m

Thailand’s Treasury Department estimates that investment in each low-rise condominium project with 500 units under the government’s cheap housing scheme will not exceed 250 million baht, its chief says. Each condo unit with a 23-24-square-metre space will cost 500,000 baht, said Chakkrit Parapuntakul, director-general of the Treasury ...

New law bans beggars, permits buskers

Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly has approved law that bans street beggars but will allow buskers provided they have a licence. The military-appointed assembly approved the Begging Control Act by 178 votes to two with seven abstentions. The law forbids all begging and sets out punishments for anyone who ...

Re-elected TJA president warns of less media freedom

The challenge to press freedom is still of concern this year, said the re-elected president of the Thai Journalists Association on 4 March. Keep reading ...

A clearer picture for lenders

The double-digit growth of consumer lending in Cambodia has created a need for a comprehensive and centralised database of individual credit histories. The Post’s Cam McGrath sat down with Pascal Ly, CEO of the Credit Bureau Cambodia (CBC), to discuss the role of the Kingdom’s only ...

Firm denies circumventing Malaysia maid ban

Four Cambodian domestic workers sent to Malaysia despite an official moratorium on the practice have been repatriated amid claims of unpaid wages and harsh working conditions, though the company that recruited them has insisted that the terms of their employment didn’t technically violate the government ...

Environmental campaigner convicted of forestry crime

A prominent anti-dam activist in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province who has been jailed since October was convicted on 3 March of illegal logging and given a suspended prison sentence, allowing him to walk free but leaving the shadow of a criminal conviction hanging over him. The decision ...

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