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New meat processing factory to boost food safety
The Lao Fresh Meats factory at Sivilay village in Naxaithong district, Vientiane, a Hungarian government assistance project, aims to boost food safety standards for domestic supply and export. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry received the first phase support of a Tied Aid Loan ...
Bokeo authorities mull inspection of petrol importers
Bokeo provincial authorities are focusing on the inspection of petrol stations and petrol import companies after finding that different petrol operators are operating without licenses. Some 73 other petrol stations have been found operating with only 40 of those stations licensed. To manage petrol imports into the ...
Trade and investment between Thailand and CLMV tipped to rise
Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce sees further potential for trade and investment between Thailand and CLMV (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam) countries. The remark came after it was revealed that trade between Thailand and CLMV from January was Bt353.31 billion, up 1.74 per cent on the same period ...
Draft regulatory framework for healthcare professionals needed in Laos
Laos will need a draft regulatory framework to ensure proper licensing among healthcare professionals aimed at assuring the quality of healthcare treatment across the country, officials say. Director Cabinet of the Ministry of Health, DrNaoBoutta said on 9 June during a meeting in Vientiane that a draft ...
Value of dam-affected homes being assessed
Officials have started to assess properties in Oddar Meanchey that will be flooded by an under construction dam, though the affected villagers remain in the dark about possible compensation. Eight officers from the Ministry of Finance and the province’s water resources department were in Chongkal district’s ...
Companies failing to replace trees felled during projects
All companies carrying out projects in Laos which resulted in deforestation are required to plant trees to offset the loss, forestry officials and researchers have stated. But less than 10 percent of companies in question pursued the country’s laws and regulations, causing great loss in forestry ...
Thailand eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV
The World Health Organization announced on 8 June that Thailand has become the first Asian country to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. Elimination of transmission is defined as a reduction of transmission to such a low level that it no longer constitutes a public health ...
IMF urges Thailand rate cuts that central bank says not needed
The International Monetary Fund called on policy makers in Thailand to cut interest rates in the face of a sluggish economy and low inflation, an approach that the central bank says isn’t necessary. Thailand needs expansionary fiscal and monetary policies to help spur an economy that’s ...
Old habits put crops at risk: study
A new academic report has urged farmers in the northwest of the Kingdom to change their planting ways if they want to mitigate the detrimental impacts of climate change on their crops. Van, a researcher with the department of agronomy and soil science at the University ...
Domestic technologies not attractive to Vietnamese businesses
The State budget every year funnels big money into national scientific research projects, but discoveries by scientists seem to have little significance in the eyes of businesses. Nguyen Huy Van, Deputy general director of Traphaco, a pharmacy firm, commented: “Scientists only show their initial ideas.” In other ...
