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  • APB Reports Strong Attributable Net Profit Before Exceptional Items Growth of 14% for 1H 2008 13 May 2008 11:11 GMT
    ... As a cluster, IndoChina (Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos) continued to be the star performer, accounting for ... to cater to the strong domestic and export demand for its beers in the market. ...

  • Cambodian dam plans suffer drought 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... environmental impacts on local communities. Like neighboring Laos in the 1990s, foreign donors, electricity-hungry neighboring nations ... Cambodia will initially be a net electricity importer but will become a net exporter once ... state-owned financial institutions such as the Chinese Export-Import Bank, are the main players in hydropower dam ...

  • Vietnam to join global rice price stabilization efforts 13 May 2008 09:57 GMT
    ... to ensure the interests of farmers, rice exporters and consumers, especially those in developing countries, ... initiative to establish the Organization of Rice Export Countries (OREC) between Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, Dung said Vietnam pursued a food ...

  • Prices for rice, Asiaâs essential food, skyrocketing 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), prompting importing countries to seek assurances on supplies. Rice ... a net exporter to being a net importer, partly because rezoning has opened farmland to ... especially in Asia. In Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam rice provides 50 to ...

  • Global Poultry Industry is the Root of the Bird Flu Crisis 13 May 2008 04:51 GMT
    ... small scale chicken flocks. H5N1 outbreaks in Laos, which is surrounded by infected countries, have only ... hotspots for migratory birds but known for importing unregulated hatchable eggs. In India, local authorities ...

  • Leaders approve tariff exemptions for farming 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... Thailand agreed yeaterday to remove import tariffs on 10 agricultural commodities from four ... meeting of foreign ministers from Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in Bangkok yesterday to discuss ...

  • Asia's Coming Water Wars 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... by the six riparian states (Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) to construct dams in ... single network so that upstream states could export electrical power to downstream states during the ... to downstream states during the winter, and import from them during the summer when water was ...

  • ASEAN to form Asian Union? 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Brunei.) If you believe the ... by 2015. Most immediately, protectionist tariffs and import duties - which have kept trade among ...

  • 10 men accused of plotting coup in Laos 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... U.S. colonel allegedly raised money to buy, export arms ( 06-05) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -- ... courtroom here Monday as a group of Laotian men and a retired U.S. Army officer who ... coup to overthrow the communist government of Laos. A prominent Laotian exile leader enlisted by ...

  • China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... to run similar operations in Vietnam and Laos. By the mid-1960s, the CIA had switched its ... China's extensive trade in manufactured goods. China's export oriented industrial base is the source of ... times their factory price. This process of "import led development" has allowed the Western "industrialised" countries ...

  • Selling like hot cakes 13 May 2008 04:49 GMT
    ... more than tripled since January, Thailand proposed an OPEC-style cartel Friday with major rice exporters Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam to give them more control over international rice prices. Take escalating ...

  • Singapore: Another Hong Kong? 13 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... the world's most prosperous countries with strong international trading links and one of the busiest ... 10-nation group, which includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Japan and ...

  • Call For Entries: Furniture Design Awards 2009 13 May 2008 03:36 GMT
    ... in the ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam). ... and Innovation Board (SPRING Singapore), American Hardwood Export Council, the Designers Association of Singapore, Interior ...

  • The Elusive ABCs to Wealth Creation 13 May 2008 00:16 GMT
    ... The Least Free countries are Turkmenistan (148th); Laos (149th); Cuba (150th); Belarus (151st); Venezuela (152nd); Zimbabwe ... Marc Miles, director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at The Heritage Foundation, ...

  • Thailand Drops Plan for Rice Cartel that Would Have Fixed Prices 12 May 2008 23:51 GMT
    ... , a major importer, as well as some Thai rice exporters. ... a meeting with ambassadors from six rice exporting countries in Asia. "If Thailand sets up ... this year. The five countries — Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar — have formed a ...

  • Rice exporters talk of cartel to control prices 12 May 2008 23:40 GMT
    ... Asian Development Bank said yesterday as four rice-exporting nations prepared to discuss a proposed cartel ... uncertainty when the Philippines, the world's biggest importer, failed in an attempt to boost its ... uncertain situation that rice exporters Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Burma face as they meet today to discuss ...

  • Christians Without Bibles 12 May 2008 23:09 GMT
    ... name in honor of a region of Laos where they had been representing Cuba. There are ... the coming months, not as thick, heavy, imported volumes, but divided up into smaller books, ...

  • Statement of Samuel L. Maury, President of The Business Roundtable before the Subcommitee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means 12 May 2008 22:45 GMT
    ... in 1992. (ASEAN comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.) In November ... Potato Commission, Chile has been the largest importer in South America of U.S. frozen potato ... by 2003. Unlike in NAFTA, [European] vehicles imported by companies which are not established in Mexico ...

  • Rising food prices put a billion at risk 12 May 2008 20:02 GMT
    ... the Asian Development Bank said today. Four rice-exporting nations meanwhile prepared to discuss a proposed ... uncertainty when the Philippines, the world's biggest importer, failed in an attempt to boost its ... uncertain situation that rice exporters Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar face as they meet tomorrow to discuss ...

  • Businessman owns first personal aircraft in Vietnam 12 May 2008 08:31 GMT
    ... said Duc will not have to pay import tax or VAT on the aircraft. According ... HCM City, Da Nang, Da Lat, Hanoi, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore. Besides Duc, some other ...

  • Vietnam sees 2008 rubber output up 8 percent 12 May 2008 05:12 GMT
    ... Malaysia. The commodity is Vietnam’s largest agricultural export earner after rice. Vietnam, which is known as ... known as the world’s fourth biggest rubber exporter after Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, set to ... grown hundreds of thousands of hectares in Laos and Cambodia. ...

  • Responses to food crisis 12 May 2008 04:27 GMT
    ... speculators. * THAILAND: The world's biggest rice exporter proposes an OPEC-style cartel with Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam. * INDIA, VIETNAM, NEPAL: ... government rice stocks. * ARGENTINA: Maintains rice export ban to Brazil and imposes export taxes on ...

  • Rice isn't oil, even if some Asians think it is 11 May 2008 19:56 GMT
    ... of global rice exports. Add in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar and Asia's cartel would wield even ... For one thing, an Organization of Rice Exporting Countries, or OREC, would presumably favour high ... kind of cartel isn't good for the exporters and the importers". Philippines Senator Edgardo Angara ...

  • BUSINESS IN BRIEF 11/5 11 May 2008 16:36 GMT
    ... has achieved significant improvements. In 2007, industrial export increased by 17.1 percent compared to 2006, ... year, the domestic rubber industry has to import around 50,000 tonnes of black coal at the ... 200,000ha in the two neigbouring countries of Laos and Cambodia. ...

  • ASIAN countries have been struggling to cope as the cost of rice has reached record levels. more... 11 May 2008 14:37 GMT
    ... weeks. Shortages have started to hit some importing countries. Factors contributing to the price rise ... additional crops. Meanwhwile, the world’s biggest rice exporter plans to talk to Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam about co-operating on prices. ...


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