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North Korean defectors nabbed at border
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/11/2015
» Thai immigration police have arrested seven North Korean defectors on the Mekong River in Nong Khai for entering the country illegally on Tuesday night.
Chinese-built bridge opens in Phnom Penh
Kyodo News, Published on 22/10/2015
» A new Chinese-built bridge in Cambodia's capital opened for public use on Thursday, having taken about three years to complete at a cost of $27.5 million.
Mekong nations, Japan agree on industrialisation blueprint
Kyodo News, Published on 24/08/2015
» Japan and the five Southeast Asian countries bordering the Mekong River adopted Monday a blueprint to boost industrialisation in the sub-region.
12 dead after two trains derail in India: official
AFP, Published on 05/08/2015
» NEW DELHI - Twelve people have been killed after two packed trains derailed while crossing a bridge hit by floods in central India overnight Wednesday, authorities said, highlighting again safety problems with the nation's crumbling railway network.
Japan pledges 750 billion yen for Mekong development
Published on 04/07/2015
» TOKYO - Japan pledged on Saturday to give fresh aid worth 750 billion yen (205 billion baht) in official development assistance to five Southeast Asian countries along the Mekong River over the next three years to boost the region's development.
Japan to promise aid for Mekong countries
Kyodo News, Published on 30/06/2015
» TOKYO - Japan is expected to offer new aid to five countries along the Mekong River at a summit meeting this week in Tokyo, a report said on Tuesday.
Govt mulls B50bn water plan
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/06/2015
» Economic ministers will meet Wednesday to consider packages worth more than 50 billion baht to ease the impact of the nation's intensifying drought.
Thailand, Asean neighbours agree to boost coordination
Kyodo News, Published on 23/06/2015
» The leaders of Myanmar and four Southeast Asian neighbours -- Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam -- vowed at a summit Tuesday to strengthen subregional cooperation in the eight areas of trade and investment, agriculture, industry and energy, transportation, tourism, human resources development, public health, and environmental conservation.
Defying death in the Holocaust for a sister
AFP, Published on 16/04/2015
» SHORESH (ISRAEL) - Suzanna Braun, who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust and defied death at least three times, believes she survived because of her determination to save her sister -- and some divine intervention.
Cambodia opens Japan-funded bridge across Mekong
Kyodo News, Published on 06/04/2015
» Cambodia on Monday inaugurated the Japan-funded, 2.2-kilometere Tsubasa bridge across the Mekong River, the longest bridge in the country.