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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 ...
Challenges lie ahead for Vietnam economic growth
Vietnam has challenges to tackle if it wants to achieve economic targets and deeply integrate into the world’s economy in the context of new trade agreements. Speaking at a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on 3 March, Tran Dinh Thien, director of the Vietnam ...
Ho Chi Minh City rolls out first buses that run on green fuel
Ho Chi Minh City on 1 March took the first step to make its public transport system more environmentally friendly by introducing 23 brand new buses that use compressed natural gas (CNG). Nguyen Van Trieu, chairman of the May 19 Bus Transport Cooperative, said the new buses ...
