On November 13, Cambodia’s princeling prime minister, Hun Manet, will meet with Cambodia’s aggravated private sector for his administration’s first Government-Private Sector Forum which his nascent government has been preparing for months. There has already been a public furore over the likely rise in taxation, which Hun Manet has denied will happen, but anyone with […]
Read MorePheu Thai Party focuses on soft power in international relations and digital initiatives, urging support and communication. This week’s meeting of the Pheu Thai Party highlighted the importance of soft power in international relations and digital initiatives. Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the party’s leader, chaired the session for the first time, and Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin also […]
Read MorePrime Minister Srettha Thavisin announced his government’s intention to promote Thailand as a global festival destination, in the hopes of boosting tourism across the country and attracting more foreign tourists over the New Year period. Srettha announced today that Thailand will host two major events, namely the “Thailand Winter Festival”, which consists of 3,000 festivals […]
Read MorePHNOM PENH, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) — Cambodia has seen a big jump in the use of local currency Riel over the past two decades, National Bank of Cambodia (NBC)’s Governor Chea Serey said here on Friday. With the objective of de-dollarizing the economy based on the market mechanism and on a gradual approach, the NBC […]
Read MoreAbout 90,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar due to the intensifying conflict between the country’s military rulers and an alliance of ethnic armed groups, the United Nations said. “As of 9 November, almost 50,000 people in northern Shan were forced into displacement,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said […]
Read MoreTAIPEI (Taiwan News) — China accuses the Philippines of sending five ships to a disputed island in the South China Sea, reports said Friday (Nov. 10). The Philippines grounded a ship on the Second Thomas Shoal, also known as the Ayungin Shoal or the Ren’ai Reef in China, in the Nansha Islands in 1999. In […]
Read MoreKuala Lumpur: Malaysia’s leader Anwar Ibrahim has said his nation will maintain ties with Hamas and will “not punish” the group. Malaysians should “unanimously back” the Palestinian cause, the prime minister told parliament on Tuesday. Mr Anwar was responding to a proposal by US lawmakers to sanction Hamas’s foreign supporters. Analysts say this is also […]
Read MoreMANILA: The Philippines hopes to reach an agreement with Japan “at the soonest possible time” on allowing the deployment of military forces on each other’s soil, the Philippine defence secretary said on Monday (Nov 6). The two close US allies have agreed to negotiate a reciprocal access agreement (RAA) amid growing tensions in the region. […]
Read MoreBy Ananda Teresia and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) -A judicial panel in Indonesia on Tuesday found the Constitutional Court’s chief justice guilty of a conflict of interest over his part in a ruling that allowed President Joko Widodo’s son to run for the vice presidency. Anwar Usman, who is the president’s brother-in-law, was ordered to […]
Read MoreMyanmar coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has met Russia’s navy chief as the two countries prepared to hold their first ever joint maritime exercises off Myanmar’s Andaman coast. The state-run Global New Light of Myanmar, in a front-page report, showed Min Aung Hlaing saluting an honour guard of Russian sailors from Moscow’s Pacific […]
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