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Luxury timber goes to Vietnam en masse
While crowds gathered in Phnom Penh to watch Cambodia’s Independence Day parade, a different sort of procession drew the attention of villagers in Ratanakkiri province on 9 November, with hundreds of motorbikes flooding across border checkpoints loaded with luxury timber. The spectacle, which on a smaller ...
Cambodian think tank proposals focus on foreign policy
Cambodia’s Future Forum think tank on 9 November marked Independence Day by releasing its first set of proposals, calling on the ruling and opposition parties to form a unified foreign policy ahead of the 2018 election. In an open letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen and Cambodia ...
UEC frustrates with lack of results
Confident of having secured a landslide victory, the opposition National League for Democracy is being frustrated by the slow release of officially sanctioned results by the Union Election Commission. The UEC, headed by ex-general U Tin Aye, says it is working with full transparency and yesterday ...
Aung San Suu Kyi: NLD has won election majority
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC she believes her party has won a parliamentary majority, in her first interview since the historic elections. Early results point to a sweeping victory for her National League for Democracy (NLD), but final official results will not ...
Aung San Suu Kyi on track to take two-thirds of seats
Fresh results from Myanmar’s election on 10 November showed Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party winning dozens more seats in parliament as observers declared the poll “credible and transparent”. The National League for Democracy (NLD) said its own tally of results posted at polling stations around the ...
Warning for Thailand's ailing enterprises
The State Enterprises Policy Commission or superboard yesterday gave a mandate for seven loss-ridden state enterprises including embattled Thai Airways International (THAI) to launch rehabilitation plans next month. The superboard, which met on 9 November and was chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, will hold executives, management teams and ...
Vietnam, Philippines to sign strategic-alliance pact
An official says the Philippines and Vietnam plan to sign an accord next week to elevate their relationship to a strategic level, allowing them to deepen economic ties and maritime cooperation. Keep reading ...
Vietnam hopes to attract more Chinese tourists, with deeper pockets
Vietnam has launched its biggest ever promotional campaign in China, its largest visitor market, in an attempt to reverse a downward trend in the tourism industry. The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) last month started a series of events that gathered many travel agencies across ...
Local banks draw foreign interest
Vietnamese commercial banks expect to attract foreign investment in their newly-established financial companies thanks to the profitable domestic consumer financial market, according to Dau tu (Investment) newspaper. Despite concerns by shareholders, banks have still tried mergers and acquisitions (M&As) with ailing financial companies, whose non-performing loans ...
Vietnam, Japan produce carbon-free rubber
Vietnamese and Japanese researchers have developed technologies to reduce proteins in natural rubber, thereby permitting the production of high-performance rubber materials and alleviate the environmental burden caused by natural rubber processing. The scientists presented their research results at a session during the International Rubber Conference held ...
