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The Dawei Special Economic Zone in Myanmar
Thailand and Myanmar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in 2008 to develop the DSEZ; one the three special economic zones in the country expected to stimulate growth by drawing in foreign investment. About eight years later work on the DSEZ has been minimal. On the ...
Royal Group in talks with China, Indonesia on proposed oil pipeline
Cambodian conglomerate the Royal Group is in talks with two foreign state-owned petroleum companies to conduct feasibility studies for an oil pipeline that would run from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh, a government official has confirmed. Meng Saktheara, secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and ...
New group set up to tackle land disputes
The newly appointed minister of land management and urban planning, Chea Sophara, has announced a working group to handle petitions and complaints lodged by land dispute victims. “The working group has the duty to meet and receive related petitions from protesters, coordinate and solve issues, suggest ...
NLA approves question on Senate role in choosing PM
Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly on 7 April voted unanimously to approve an additional referendum question asking voters whether they would approve the upper and lower houses of Parliament to jointly choose the new prime minister during the five-year transition period under the new charter. Keep reading ...
Yangon’s illegal residents appeal for end to evictions
Hlaing Tharyar residents who were considered unlawful squatters by the former government are appealing to the new administration to end the policy of violent evictions. Union Minister for Commerce U Than Myint said the government has no plan to evict squatters and illegal residents are citizens and ...
Vietnam's new president sworn into office
Vietnam’s National Assembly on 2 April swore in Tran Dai Quang, Minister of Public Security, as president, who promised to “push forward with comprehensive reforms” in the country. Among the 481 valid votes, 452 – or 91.5 percent of the total 494 members of the unicameral house ...
NLD takes first steps on migrant policy
In its first, tenuous start toward a policy on migrant workers, the National League for Democracy is drawing up a bill to address the millions of citizens outside the country. “We are now making observations for the bill. I think it will take three months to ...
Tambon nationwide told to help boost tourism
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut said the government had asked all 7,000 sub-districts or tambon across the country to look for new tourism attractions or create activities in their areas in order to draw visitors and use the tourism sector to generate income for their communities in the ...
New protected forests test overstretched ministry
The nearly 1 million hectares of newly protected forests the Environment Ministry wants to create by the end of the year will add nearly a third more land to the portfolio of an agency already struggling to manage the 3.2 million hectares it has. And ...
Rubber association set to be established
The Lao National Rubber Association will be established sometime this year in order to help provide a sustainable income for rubber growers. Many rubber growers, especially in the northern provinces, have been struggling with the low price of rubber on the world market and the limited ...
