HA NOI — More than US$2 million has been earmarked for human resource development in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), following the annual meeting of the Mekong Institute Governing Council in Vientiane, the capital city of Laos, the Lao newspaper Vientiane Times reported yesterday.
The money will be used to finance more than 50 capacity – [...]
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Hun Sen Leaves for Laos, Vietnam Summit
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday left for a two-day official visit to Vientiane, to sign agreements trade agreements and attend a summit of Laos, Cambodian and Vietnamese leaders.
The two countries hope to develop investment on the border of Vietnam, in a zone called the Development Triangle Area of CLV, or Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam.
“The visit will strengthen [...]
Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam triangle focuses on tourism
LAOS, Sept 24 (KPL) -Â Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed to develop tourism as a main key for boosting economic growth and reducing poverty in the development triangle area.
The agreement, which also included the creation of favourable conditions for the triangular region that comprises 10 border provinces of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, was reached [...]
Official: Lao flooding not danger for Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) – The current flooding in Laos wouldn’t cause any serious danger for Cambodia, although the two neighboring countries share water from the Mekong River, English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodia Daily Saturday quoted an official as saying.
“The water (here) hasn’t risen (to those levels in Laos) and there is nothing to [...]
US boosts military ties with Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States is stepping up military ties with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia as part of a deepening relationship with Southeast Asia amid competition for influence from China, officials said.
The United States and Laos, they said, plan to exchange military attaches by the end of the year as part of the strategy [...]
Cambodia to join in forming rice exporting countries with Asian countries
“Thai prime minister’s initiative to form the Organization of Rice Exporting Countries (OREC) is not the new idea for any one, but it is Hun Sen’s idea since 2005†prime minister Hun Sen at the graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh on May 5.
A group of five Asian countries proposed to create OREC similar to OPEC, [...]