{"id":715,"date":"2023-12-22T15:54:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T09:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/?p=715"},"modified":"2023-12-24T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T09:35:04","slug":"clmv-news-22-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"CLMV News (22 December 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CAMBODIAN&#8217;s <\/strong>Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training plans to devote more resources to boost employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Currently, fewer than 1% of disabled people are employed in the country (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.khmertimeskh.com%2F501410412%2Fministry-to-boost-employment-for-disabled-people%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Coon%40un.org%7Ce6e6fe118bb04fc0e82608dc0295f926%7C0f9e35db544f4f60bdcc5ea416e6dc70%7C0%7C0%7C638388090474942986%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=J3OfLuQTBEeNQxx2oQels9y6xOtAfnqNSQ5514YNELk%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Khmer Times<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LAO PDR&#8217;s <\/strong>President has instructed the Ministry of Finance to spend any extra money on debt payments and civil servant support. President Thongloun Sisoulith issued the instruction when addressing a meeting to review financial work carried out in 2023 and the plan of work for 2024, held at the International Cooperation and Training Centre in Vientiane (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vientianetimes.org.la%2Ffreefreenews%2Ffreecontent_248President_23.php&amp;data=05%7C02%7Coon%40un.org%7Ce6e6fe118bb04fc0e82608dc0295f926%7C0f9e35db544f4f60bdcc5ea416e6dc70%7C0%7C0%7C638388090474942986%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=k2QGepS2%2F4dEJkTrJzHTjyihCRPkmB7AxcpHbhZD25w%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Vientiane Times<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VIET NAM<\/strong>&#8216;s National Wage Council gave the green light to lifting the regional minimum wage by 6 per cent next year. The increase will be submitted to the Government for approval. If approved, the regional minimum wage increase will take effect on July 1, 2024 (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvietnamnews.vn%2Fsociety%2F1638313%2Fregional-minimum-wage-to-increase-by-6-per-cent-next-year.html%23google_vignette&amp;data=05%7C02%7Coon%40un.org%7Ce6e6fe118bb04fc0e82608dc0295f926%7C0f9e35db544f4f60bdcc5ea416e6dc70%7C0%7C0%7C638388090475099572%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=xlgkpJ1m7zg%2BkyQX1WJTC6Av9VJoBK%2B%2BcmuwR7Cs0JI%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Viet Nam News<\/a>). And, Vi\u1ec7t Nam\u2019s livestock industry set a production growth target of 4-5 per cent in 2024 and is expected to make up 28-30 per cent of the country\u2019s agricultural production (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvietnamnews.vn%2Feconomy%2F1638297%2Flivestock-industry-targets-production-growth-of-4-5-per-cent-in-2024.html&amp;data=05%7C02%7Coon%40un.org%7Ce6e6fe118bb04fc0e82608dc0295f926%7C0f9e35db544f4f60bdcc5ea416e6dc70%7C0%7C0%7C638388090475099572%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FKYXsYX0YdG%2FFta7xLbIG62hIP1H6UcDvYGuee8PieE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Viet Nam News<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>CAMBODIAN&#8217;s Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training plans to devote more resources to boost employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Currently, fewer than 1% of disabled people are employed in the country (Source: Khmer Times). <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/clmv.org\/?p=715\" title=\"CLMV News (22 December 2023)\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,17,1],"tags":[38,10,63,72,131,11,332,278,29,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cambodia","8":"category-laospdr","9":"category-news","10":"category-vietnam","11":"tag-agriculture","12":"tag-cambodia","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-employment","15":"tag-labour","16":"tag-lao-pdr","17":"tag-livestock","18":"tag-minimum-wage","19":"tag-viet-nam","20":"tag-vocational"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}