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CDC says investments up by 18 pct in 2015
Investments in Cambodia grew by 18 per cent last year, with a bulk of this capital flowing into the infrastructure, agriculture and tourism projects, the Council for Development of Cambodia announced on 3 February. Keep reading ...
Vehicles cannot start as fuel becomes ice
Many cars in the northern parts of Laos appear not to have started in the cold weather and some people have speculated that maybe the stranded motorists were using low grade fuels. Last week saw many vehicles in the northern provinces of Phongsaly, Huaphan and Xieng ...
New Sri Sathya Sai school to accept more enrolments
The first ever Sri Sathya Sai School in Laos, based on a human-value based educational model, has plans to accept more enrolments for the 2016-2017 academic year after opening its doors last September. To date, there are 74 children, including 37 females attending the class from ...
Committee to announce March election candidates
Laos’ National Election Committee will soon announce the list of candidates standing to be potential members of the National Assembly (NA) and Provincial Assemblies (PAs) on 20 March. Committee Member and President of the NA’s Law Committee Prof. Dr Davone Vangvichit told Vientiane Times on 3 February that ...
Lao human resource development trends matching labour demand
Human resource development trends have gradually coincided with labour demand as 146,486 people graduated from Laos’ various educational institutes in various fields over the past five years, a report has showed. Of the graduates, 4,629 people finished their education courses in foreign countries, while the remainder ...
New drive to register illegal labour in Thailand
Thailand’s Labour Ministry is preparing to document illegal migrant workers nationwide as part of the government’s attempt to crack down on illegal worker numbers and upgrade its records, says Department of Employment head Arak Phrommanee. The plan will target specific geographic areas where illegal migrants are ...
Rakhine government builds homes for displaced people
The Rakhine State government has started building new homes in six villages in Kyauktaw and Mrauk-U townships for civilians who fled fighting between the Arakan Army (AA) and the military last month. District and township authorities, as well as police, had ordered IDPs (internally displaced people) to ...
Upgraded Yangon bus system to kick off next week
A Bus Rapid Transit system, designed to relieve traffic congestion in Yangon and increase the safety of commuters, is aiming to launch the second week of February. At present, 18 buses have arrived in Myanmar that will run from Htaukkyant to 8 Mile junction, from where ...
Thai policy rate maintained
The Bank of Thailand on 3 February unanimously resolved to maintain the policy rate at 1.50 per cent per annum. Keep reading ...
DSI officials rescued by troops, police from angry Cambodian vendors
Over 100 Cambodian vendors attacked and besieged some 10 Department of Special Investigation officials and representatives of major brands at Thailand’s Rongklua Market in Sakaew on 3 February, injuring several officials. The DSI officials tried to arrest a Cambodian female vendor for allegedly selling imitated goods at ...
