People and government
Review on further tax break
The Revenue Department may renew the 15,000-baht tax break on domestic tour packages and hotel accommodation that expired last month. The tax-collecting agency will also decide whether to extend the deduction for one year or two, director-general Prasong Poontaneat said. Keep reading ...
More than 70 awaiting deportation
More than 50 Vietnamese immigrants have been detained by Cambodia’s Interior Ministry’s immigration police following two recent raids, bringing the total number of people awaiting deportation for being in the country illegally to 73, according to an official. Keep reading ...
Daw Suu highlights ‘deeply rooted’ educational flaws
Myanmar’s deeply rooted rote learning system is outdated and leads to poor educational standards, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said on 11 January. Improving the country’s education system will be a key challenge for the new administration when it takes over in March. Keep reading ...
Mandalay tent dwellers hope to get public housing
Tent-dwellers on the banks of the Ayeyarwady River in Mandalay may soon be exchanging their canvas walls for bricks and mortar, as the regional government seeks tenants for newly completed low-cost housing. The Mandalay Region government has decided not to charge would-be tenants a deposit amounting ...
Hepatitis survey points to nearly 5 million infected
Nearly 5 million people in Myanmar suffer from a form of hepatitis, health officials say. A nationwide survey conducted last year estimated that about 3.3 million people suffer from hepatitis B and a further 1.3 million live with hepatitis C. Keep reading ...
Vietnam battles to balance State budget
Vietnam Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung said in an interview on VTV on 10 January that one of the key tasks that his ministry will fulfil this year is to balance the state budget. Dung said it was projected that in 2016 the crude oil price ...
Vietnam computer users lose $387 million to viruses: report
Each of Vietnam’s seven million computer users suffered an average loss of VND1.25 million (US$55) due to viruses last year, a new report said. The report, released by Hanoi-based online security firm BKAV, found that up to 83 percent of more than 9.1 million computers in ...
Rescues of trafficked migrant workers surge
More than 500 trafficked Cambodian migrant workers were rescued abroad and sent home in 2015, a huge increase compared to 2014 numbers, though largely attributable to a handful of mass repatriations from Indonesia. According to a report by the Foreign Ministry, 573 workers were returned home ...
Antimicrobial program begins
The Ministry of Health on 11 January launched a nationwide program aimed at holding back the spread of drug-resistant diseases. Microbes are continuing to evolve resistance to drugs at an alarming rate all over the world, often due to the unsupervised and inappropriate use of antimicrobials, health ...
Hanoi plans measures to reduce traffic jams
Hanoi aims to reduce up to 10 traffic congestion hotspots and limit the duration of traffic jams to less than 30 minutes, People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung said. Speaking at a conference on ensuring traffic order during the Lunar New Year Festival, Chung said traffic ...
