{"id":545,"date":"2023-08-22T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/?p=545"},"modified":"2023-09-05T05:07:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T22:37:02","slug":"clmv-news-22-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"CLMV News (22 August 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LAO PDR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kpl.gov.la\/En\/detail.aspx?id=75038\">The ADB has approved a $45 million financing package to help strengthen quality health care in 16 districts across 10 provinces in the Laos. (KPL)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/laotiantimes.com\/2023\/08\/21\/lao-central-bank-issues-statement-to-clarify-false-foreign-account-claims\/\">The Bank of Lao PDR has issued a statement to dismiss false claims circulating online that suggest foreign currency bank account holders may no longer be able to make transactions in their respective currencies. (Laotian Times)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MYANMAR:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irrawaddy.com\/news\/myanmars-crisis-the-world\/myanmar-juntas-central-bank-had-6-8-bn-in-reserves-at-14-intl-banks-in-march.html\">The Myanmar regime-controlled Central Bank of Myanmar had more than US$6.8 billion in foreign reserves as of March this year in 14 overseas banks in Asia, Europe and the US, according to a CBM document seen by The Irrawaddy. Among the 14, nine Singaporean banks held more than $4.5 billion\u2014more than half of Myanmar\u2019s total foreign reserves. (The Irrawaddy)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VIET NAM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.vietnamplus.vn\/commercial-banks-continue-to-cut-deposit-interest-rates\/266639.vnp\">Commercial banks have persistently reduced deposit interest rates, resulting in rates for many terms now standing at just above 6% per annum. (Vietnam Plus)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.vietnamplus.vn\/food-reserves-kept-sufficient-to-cater-for-emergencies-authority\/266595.vnp\">The General Department of State Reserves said it has proactively reviewed and balanced the national food reserves to keep the inventory at a reasonable level to serve the regulated tasks, quickly and effectively respond to every unexpected or urgent circumstance, and prevent food shortages during between-crop periods, natural disasters, and epidemics. (Vietnam Plus)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>LAO PDR MYANMAR: VIET NAM<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,17,1],"tags":[240,96,119,287,211,11,12,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-laospdr","8":"category-myanmar","9":"category-news","10":"category-vietnam","11":"tag-central-bank","12":"tag-currency","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-health-care","15":"tag-interest-rate","16":"tag-lao-pdr","17":"tag-myanmar","18":"tag-viet-nam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}