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Vietnam’s Hanoi names 22 commercial housing projects where Foreigners can own homes The Vietnam Capital city of Hanoi has listed 22 commercial housing projects, some complete and some under construction, where foreigners can own homes. They include four projects in Hà Đông District, like the Văn Phú Invest’s Terra An Hưng project, Military Petrochemical Joint […]
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B.Grimm Group, a major supporter of WWF Thailand helping save Thailand’s tigers In the wild, tigers play the role of apex predator. The biggest of the wild cats can roam almost 300 kilometres to find food and mates, and they very rarely come into contact with other tigers or people. Unfortunately, the number of wild […]
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Thailand’s endangered elephants reclaim Khao Yai national park as lockdown allows them to roam freely Without jeeps and crowds, some 300 elephants have been able to walk around Khao Yai, Thailand’s oldest national park For as long as the elephants could remember – and that is a long time – the path to the river […]
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Vietnam planning its own ‘Silicon Valley’ in Ho Chi Minh City The municipal government of HCMC has submitted plans to develop a large tech zone, that is being dubbed the ‘Silicon Valley of Vietnam’ 3 HCMC eastern districts will be merged under the proposed plan, which has the backing of the Vietnamese PM Substantial city […]
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Bangkok hotels face long road back Market was already showing signs of a slowdown in late 2019 before Covid-19 hit, reports Edmund Tie & Company The hotel market in Bangkok was already cooling down late last year, even before the Covid-19 pandemic left thousands of rooms empty, according to statistics compiled by the property services […]
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Laos’ Sanakam dam anger grows in neighbouring Thailand Nan province A conservation group has called for the scrapping of the Sanakam dam which is being built in Laos on the Mekong River two kilometres from Nan province. The group urged Laos and neighbouring countries to embrace more ecological friendly renewable energy projects such as solar […]
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Ho Chi Minh City considers the entry of foreign experts, investors, high-level managers and highly-skilled laborers Health authority in Ho Chi Minh City will facilitate foreign experts and investors’ entry into the city through Tan Son Nhat Airport. The municipal Department of Health said some enterprises have sent documents about facilitation for foreign experts and investors’ […]
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Laos Government okays Singaporean-Lao feasibility study for clean thermal power plant in the southern province of Xekong A Singaporean firm joint-venturing with a Lao partner has agreed with the Lao government to conduct a feasibility study on the development of a clean thermal power plant in the southern province of Xekong. Evolution Power Investment Corporation […]
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Vietnam turns down Chinese Hanoi-metro rail contractor demand for advance payment Vietnam has refused to pay the Chinese company building its first metro route the $50 million it wants in advance to test run trains. Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong told reporters on Tuesday that Vietnam has been making payments on schedule to […]
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Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to commence studies for deep-sea port at Myanmar’s Dawei SEZ The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will commence preliminary studies for the construction of a deep-sea port at Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) this year, officials of the Dawei SEZ Committee said. “JICA first proposed the study in December 2019 […]
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