Deputy General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyen Hoai
Duong and Deputy Editor-in-chief of China’s Xinhua News Agency Peng
Shujie held talks in Hanoi on June 29 to discuss measures to strengthen
cooperation between the two sides.
Cambodian press on May 23 reported that Prime Minister Hun Sen said the
country may provide temporary shelter to thousands of migrant Rohingya
who are being stranded at sea on the condition that the UN will resettle
the migrants in another country, citing a statement of the Council of
Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan.
The Chinese press spotlighted activities of General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong during his visit to
China on April 7-10 at the invitation of Chinese Party General Secretary
and State President Xi Jinping.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and President Truong Tan Sang
on August 4 sent their condolences to Chinese General Secretary and
President Xi Jinping over heavy losses in property and human lives
caused by a recent earthquake in Yunnan province.
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) is scheduled to
hold a people's congress on March 30 at the Freedom Park in Phnom Penh
to consult with its supporters over the current political situation.
Massive search for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that went mission
on March 8 was underway on March 11 with the participation of 30
aircraft and 40 ships sent by more than 10 countries, including Vietnam,
the US, China, Australia, and Singapore.
China wishes to strengthen maritime cooperation and joint
anti-terrorism drills with Indonesia, a senior Chinese military official
was quoted on February 25 by China’s Xinhua News Agency.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched on February 21 a grant of 3.6
million USD to assist Asian companies targeting poor and low-income
communities.
Six members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf were confirmed killed
while six civilian volunteers were injured in clashes which erupted in
southern Philippines on February 9, Xinhua News Agency has reported.
The Thai government-run Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO) on
January 23 announced measures to enforce the emergency state to ensure
order amid escalating protests.
Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economy Hatta Rajasa has said total
investment in Indonesia last year scaled up by 25 percent to 398.6
trillion rupiah (some 32.88 billion USD) despite of the country's
subdued economic growth and risks of US plan of reducing fund injection,
according to news agencies.
Thai caretaker prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra assigned a deputy
prime minister to hold meeting with all sides concerned on the Election
Commission's proposal to postpone the February 2 election.
Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in several localities
in the Philippines left at least 13 people dead and forced thousands
to evacuate, according to Xinhua news agency.
There will be no power blackout, oil or gas shortage on January 13, the
day of the planned Bangkok shutdown by the People's Democratic Reform
Committee, caretaker Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisarn has said.
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