Photo Credit: Myanmar Times TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT CAMBODIA Cambodia becomes the largest importer of Vietnam’s steel thanks to booming construction sector (23 August 2018) A boom in the construction sector has
Photo Credit: Myanmar Times TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT MYANMAR Myanmar to liberalise its gold market after five decades (15 August 2018) Myanmar’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) aims to remove gold from its
Photo Credit: Myanmar Times TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT MYANMAR Illegal trade on the rise across Myanmar due to corruption (2 August 2018) Illegal trade has been on the rise although Myanmar government
Photo Credit: EPA TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT CAMBODIA EU and US threaten economic sanctions after Cambodia’s Ruling Party claims victory in elections with no viable opposition (30 July 2018) The conclusion of
Photo Credit: GIZ TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT GREATER MEKONG SUBREGION European Union (EU) trains officials on the safety of transporting dangerous goods in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) (22 July 2018) Thailand
Confidence levels of Southeast Asian businessmen regarding the economic outlook at home and worldwide have hit a two- year high, a new poll has found. Many more of them are upbeat over the improving
The Vietnamese government needs to set up a national nuclear regulatory agency right away, to ensure the country’s nuclear project gets underway as well as keeping in line with international rules and guidance that
Twenty-three people suspected to have the A/H1N1 virus in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang’s Ha Giang City have been quarantined for treatment and close surveillance. Director of the municipal Centre for Preventive
The recent success in border demarcation and restoration has enhanced peace and orderliness along the Laos-Vietnam border, according to Lao Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bounkeut Sangsomsak. The deputy minister spoke to Lao and Vietnamese
Two Vietnamese naval ships arrived in the coastal city of Zhan Jiang in the Chinese southern province of Guangdong on June 25 in a courtesy visit to the region’s municipal authorities and the High