The nearly-finished railway project that would link landlocked Laos with China is dealing with construction delays due to workforce scarcities arising from the coronavirus crisis, according to city government authorities. Laos, which reported its first 2 validated cases of the lethal infection just late last month, had actually been spared from the results of the […]

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Authorities in North Korea carried out without trial three high-ranking officials recently on charges of treason, for apparently taking food from the nation’s tactical supply and offering it on the open market amidst escalating costs arising from the continuous coronavirus epidemic, sources within the separated nation informed RFA. According to sources acquainted with the scenario, […]

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2 smugglers were savagely beaten by a North Korean anti-smuggling job force this month as the nation’s tolerance of smuggling throughout the border with China has actually paved the way to a crackdown due to issue over coronavirus, a source near the border informed RFA’s Korean Service. North Korea, which Wednesday declared it was totally […]

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The coronavirus pandemic is leaving lots of workers in Vietnam and Laos jobless as organisations have actually been closed down to avoid the spread of the lethal infection, while Myanmar has a hard time to handle great deals of returning migrant workers who lost their tasks in surrounding Thailand and China. Southeast Asia had actually […]

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The continuous COVID-19 epidemic is ruining the Vietnamese economy, with organisations and business of all sizes revealing earnings much lower than anticipated over the first 2 months of 2020, and more than 3,000 firms closing, authorities stated Thursday. More than 3,000 medium-sized and little organisations stopped operations in January and February, as the coronavirus epidemic […]

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Cambodia’s garment industry got a shot in the arm today as more than 200 containers from China got here in the nation bring basic materials, relieving the scarcity of inputs that idled factories in the wake of COVID-19 epidemic. According to The Phnom Penh Post, 4 container ships got in the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port Monday. […]

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