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Vietnam health inspectors to check Pepsi, Coca-Cola products
The Ministry of Health has announced its plan to send inspectors to four of the biggest beverage companies in Vietnam, including Pepsi and Coca-Cola, for a thorough check of their products. Keep reading ...
Vietnam finance ministry allays concerns about local governments' debts
A representative of the finance ministry has allayed concerns that many local governments are struggling financially, after local media reported two agencies in the southern region are drowning in debt. Speaking to news website VnExpress on 7 December, Vo Thanh Hung, chief of the ministry’s budget ...
Teachers gain understanding on child rights
Non-government organisation Great Peace in the Laos organised a training course on child rights and child development for teachers from childcare centres in Chanthabouly district, Vientiane on 5 December. This was the fifth time such a training course has been held by Great Peace, focusing on ...
Cambodia, Laos central banks to enhance ties
Central bank heads of Cambodia and Laos met on 7 December in Phnom Penh to discuss ways of strengthening cooperation of their banking sectors. Keep reading ...
‘Door closed’ for Rainsy, says Namhong
Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong said after a meeting with US Ambassador William Heidt on 7 December that the “time was over” for opposition leader Sam Rainsy to retract comments that are the subject of an outstanding defamation sentence. “I had kept the door open for ...
Outbreaks of lethal virus cyclical: study
A recently published study of a 2012 enterovirus outbreak that killed at least 54 Cambodian children has found that flare-ups of the virus tend to occur in a cyclical pattern, and that another one could be in store soon. Released last Wednesday ahead of its January ...
Cambodian PM tells lenders to weigh drought
Prime Minister Hun Sen on 7 December called on lenders to go easy on farmers bedeviled by a fickle rainy season that has hurt production and incomes, though financial institutions quizzed yesterday had no plan yet in place to facilitate the request. This year’s powerful El Niño ...
Vietnam-Laos border marker increase, upgrade completed
At a meeting in Hanoi, Vinh – who is also the head of the Defence Ministry’s steering board for the border demarcation and marker planting – said the ministry considers the increase of and upgrade to border markers critical to the countries’ defence, security, dialogue, ...
Souvanny to be fifth company listed on Lao Securities Exchange
The leading construction material supplier “Souvanny Home Center Public Company” is ready to be listed on the Lao Securities Exchange after receiving better than expected responses from share buyers. Souvanny sold all 25 million shares at the par value of 3,100 kip per share on 30 ...
Drone allows new view of Laos's bomb-riddled Plain of Jars
One of the world’s most mysterious archaeological sites has been seen in a new light thanks to advances in drone technology. The Plain of Jars in Laos is an spread of valleys and foothills littered with thousands of stone jars thought to date back to the ...
