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Laos-World Bank launch next 5-year partnership framework

The World Bank Office in Vientiane on May 24 presented the bank’s Partnership Framework for Laos 2017-2021 to stakeholders, together with the findings of the Systematic Country Diagnostic and the launch of the annual publication entitled Lao Economic Monitor. The new partnership framework between Laos and ...

Govt takes step to develop Vung Ang seaport

The government has instructed relevant sectors to study the establishment of a Lao joint state-private company to join its Vietnamese counterpart to develop a seaport in Vietnam, the government spokesman has said. The instruction was made at the two-day monthly cabinet meeting for May that closed ...

Laos, Thailand boost trade, investment cooperation

High ranking Lao and Thai officials met in Vientiane on May 24 to discuss increased cooperation across different sectors in order to promote trade and investment between both nations. Laos was led by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Mr Somdy Duangdy, while Thailand by Deputy ...

Elderly get timely food, medicines

Poor elderly folk living in Mandalay City are being cared for with medicines and food during this season when temperatures can soar, said U Soe, secretary of the Ma Naw Kyar Phyu Blood Donor and Charity Association. “We help provide essentials to the poor and ...

Why Vietnam is all in for TPP11

Trade ministers from the 11 remaining countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, after the U.S. withdrew, agreed in Hanoi on Sunday to promote the so-called TPP 11 trade liberalization deal. Vietnamese Trade and Industry Minister Tran Tuan Anh, who chaired the meeting, declared that the 11 ...

China and Myanmar to set up border economic cooperation zone

A join-committee for the establishment of China-Myanmar Border Economic Cooperation Zone would be formed within the year in a bid to boost border trade between the two countries, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The committee would be headed by the commerce ministers from both Myanmar and ...

Meet the activists risking life and limb to protect rivers

In late March of this year, an unusual group of activists gathered in Tbilisi, Georgia for a four-day conference to strategize around stopping destructive hydropower projects across the globe. Hailing from countries as diverse as Chile, Congo, Albania, Mongolia, China, Thailand, and Colombia, they had ...

Nepal burns more than 4,000 confiscated wildlife parts

On Monday, the Nepalese government set fire to more than 4,000 items of confiscated wildlife parts in an attempt to demonstrate zero tolerance for the illegal wildlife trade. The stockpile included parts from 48 species, including 67 tiger skins, 418 common leopard skins, 354 elephant ...

MIC green-lights Nga Yoke Kaung offshore supply base

A proposal to construct an offshore supply base for offshore blocks on a 30-acre company-owned land, at Nant Thar Pu village in Nga Yoke Kaung sub-township (Nga Pu Taw township), Pathein, Ayeyarwady Region, has been approved by Myanmar Investment Commission, Myint & Associates Offshore Supply ...

Joint-venture granted licence to trade machine oil

Myanmar Investment Commission has granted a licence to Puma Energy Asia Sun, said U San Myint, deputy director general from the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration. The licence allows the firm to conduct domestic retail and wholesale business for machine oil. PEAS Company started on ...

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