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CAMBODIA: Growth roadmap: Private sector indispensable partner to Cambodia’s development, says PM

Prime Minister Hun Manet addresses the 19th Government-Private Sector Forum at the Peace Palace on Monday. KT/Khem Sovannara
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The private sector is an indispensable partner of the government in Cambodia’s economic development, giving new impetus for economic transformation and new ways for common prosperity, said Prime Minister Hun Manet.

Chea Vanyuth / Khmer Times
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501391627/growth-roadmap-private-sector-indispensable-partner-to-cambodias-development-says-pm/

MYAMAR: Myanmar junta under attack on new front as opposition intensifies

 
Tun Myat Naing, commander-in-chief of the Arakan Army (AA), attends a meeting of leaders of Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups in Shan State, May 6, 2015. (Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun)
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Ethnic minority insurgents launched attacks on security posts in northwest Myanmar on Monday, residents and the rebels said, as fighting erupted on a new front against a military government facing its biggest test since a 2021 coup.  The Arakan Army (AA), a group formed to fight for greater autonomy in Rakhine State, seized posts in the Rathedaung and Minbya areas, about 200 km (124 miles) apart and fighting was raging elsewhere in the state, AA spokesman Khine Thu Kha said.

Click to read: https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2023/11/13/myanmar-junta-under-attack-on-new-front-as-opposition-intensifies.html.

SINGAPORE: First EV chargers rolled out at open-air HDB carpark under large-scale govt project

A public electric vehicle charger at the Block 209 Jurong East Street 21 carpark. ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG

SINGAPORE – For the first time, charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) have been installed at a surface-level Housing Board carpark under a large-scale project to install EV chargers at public carparks.

The six chargers at the surface-level – or open-air – carpark at Block 209 Jurong East Street 21 began operating last Tuesday, and are the latest to be rolled out under a tender awarded in November 2022.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/first-ev-chargers-rolled-out-at-open-air-hdb-carpark-under-large-scale-govt-tender

THAILAND: Campaigners demand Thailand act on air pollution

(FILES) Vehicles sit in traffic on a busy road amid high levels of air pollution in Bangkok on October 18, 2023. Campaigners demanded on November 13, 2023 the Thai government to urgently pass a “clean air act” as the kingdom braces for its annual peak pollution season. (Photo by Alex OGLE / AFP)

Vehicles on a busy road amid high levels of air pollution in Bangkok, Thailand. PHOTO: AFP

BANGKOK (AFP) – Campaigners yesterday demanded the Thai government urgently pass a “clean air act” as the kingdom braces for its annual peak pollution season.

The Thailand Clean Air Network (CAN), a group of academics and activists, submitted a proposed law to the government along with an open letter urging Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin to act swiftly to ease the “pain and suffering inflicted on the Thai public”.

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