09-05-2022 07:00
The government has announced that Thailand Commemorative Stamps will be available for purchase at Post Offices nationwide on May 9.
02-05-2022 14:38
Eight TV channels of Thailand will broadcast live competitions at the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31), which will take place in Vietnam from May 12-23.
30-04-2022 09:00
On April 28 and 29, Bamboo Airways launched two regularly-scheduled flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Singapore and Thailand, marking the airline’s first routes to Southeast Asia this year.
28-04-2022 10:00
The average tariff on imported cars in Vietnam has decreased from 49 per cent in 2015 to 12 per cent in 2020. As a result of changing car import tariffs over the past 5-10 years, Vietnam’s car imports shifted from high-tariff countries like India and China towards low-tariff ASEAN countries like Thailand (see graph). Several socioeconomic developments have triggered these changes.
25-04-2022 09:19
Thailand will remove its Test & Go travel scheme for foreign arrivals and RT-PCR testing upon arrival from the end of this month as vaccinated travellers will only need to take self-antigen tests during their stay from May 1 as part of a further easing of entry rules to boost the economy and tourism.
23-04-2022 13:00
The average daily trading value on Vietnam’s stock market has reached more than VND30.84 trillion (US$1.34 billion) per session so far this year, up 15.9 per cent from last year’s figure and now the second largest in ASEAN, only after Thailand, according to the Ministry of Finance.
22-04-2022 20:58
The Thai government has vowed to move forward with its e-commerce development plan, aiming to increase domestic e-commerce revenue to more than 7.1 trillion baht (209 billion USD) by 2027, average growth of 10 percent annually, local media reported.
22-04-2022 09:12
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has issued Decision No. 706/QD-BCT on the imposition of temporary anti-dumping tax rates on some types of welding materials of the Malaysian, Thai and Chinese origins.
21-04-2022 09:30
About half the population of Thailand has now acquired immunity against COVID-19 but this remains well short of the government's 80 percent target, according to the country’s Department of Disease Control (DoDC).
20-04-2022 20:35
The Asia Plus Securities (ASPS) of Thailand has recommended increasing investment in Vietnam, citing the country’s high growth prospects based on its ample local workforce, low minimum wage and steadily rising per capita income, according to the Bangkok Post.
16-04-2022 12:34
Six teams from Vietnam, Laos and Thailand will compete at the E-Sports Mobile Legends: Bang Bang tournament titled ‘MSC Mekong Qualifier 2022’, ahead of the upcoming 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) scheduled for May, the Vietnam Recreational E-sport Association (VIRESA) announced on April 15.
13-04-2022 10:37
Thailand’s registered investment capital into Vietnam has so far reached more than $13 billion. Piyapong Jriyasetapong, chairman of the new Thai Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vietnam, debuted last week in Hanoi, talked with VIR’s Thanh Tung about Thai investors’ interest in the Vietnamese market.
05-04-2022 15:17
Indonesia’s inflation in March 2022 reached 0.66 percent month-to-month, according to Statistics Indonesia (BPS).
05-04-2022 15:13
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Thailand has said that it is seeking cooperation from 10 countries in Southeast Asia to establish a regional extradition convention to combat transnational crimes by 2024.
22-03-2022 09:00
The digital economy in Southeast Asia is at an inflection point. The number of new digital consumers added in just one year in 2020 in the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam is equivalent to the entire population of the United Kingdom.