CAMBODIA
- Prime Minister Hun Sen has reaffirmed Cambodia’s commitment to actively ensuring world order, despite the tense global situation caused by geopolitical competition between the superpowers. (Phnom Penh Post)
- The government has extended a suspension of “advance income tax” until the end of 2025 for eligible textile-related enterprises, a good deal of which have been hurt by a drop in orders as a result of global economic headwinds linked to the ongoing Ukraine crisis. (Phnom Penh Post)
LAO PDR
- A notice issued by the office states that the National Assembly has subsidized the cost of living for civil servants and retired senior employees by LAK 150,000 per person per month in 2023. (Laotian Times)
- Laos recorded a 3 percent growth in the agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and rural development sector in 2022, in line with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s aim of accomplishing a domestic food production target of 70 percent in 2023. (Laotian Times)
MYANMAR
VIET NAM
- A new inter-regional road connecting the three provinces of Khánh Hòa, Ninh Thuận and Lâm Đồng will help foster transport infrastructure connection and boost socio-economic development in the central and Central Highlands regions. (Viet Nam News)
- More than US$549 million worth of new and additional investment was poured into export processing and industrial zones of HCM City in 2022, about 9.8 per cent higher than the target, statistics showed. (Viet Nam News)
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