by Teuvo Tuomi | Mar 17, 2024 | Cambodia, Crime, Finland, Myanmar, News, Thailand
Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs has suspended the reception of wild-berry pickers’ visa applications in Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar. Schengen visas will not be issued to wild-berry pickers from these countries for the summer 2024 harvest season. After...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 6, 2024 | Cambodia, Laos, Lifestyle, Myanmar
As Thailand’s population gets older, it needs more and more foreign workers from neighboring countries. Thailand has already taken steps to facilitate new laborers. For workers under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Thai government and Laos, Myanmar,...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Dec 14, 2023 | Economy, Myanmar, News
According to the World Bank, economic growth for Myanmar for the 2023-24 fiscal year will be 1%. Economic conditions have deteriorated in the past six months, even though some recovery was observed in the first half of 2023, the World Bank says. As macroeconomic...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Nov 25, 2023 | Myanmar, Environment, News
Farmers in Myanmar’s second-largest rice-growing region, Bago, are seeing massive losses in yields due to the worst flooding to hit the region in six decades, raising concerns about mounting food security and dwindling export earnings in the coming months, rice...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Nov 21, 2023 | ASEAN, Business, Crime, Myanmar, News, Singapore, Southeast Asia
Published annually, the Basel AML Index ranks countries with sufficient data to calculate a reliable risk score. It is a snapshot of global money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) risks and progress by countries and regions. According to this year’s...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Nov 11, 2023 | ASEAN, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Travel, Vietnam
Thailand has set new fees for inspections and work permits for foreign workers from Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam to promote legal employment. The new visa fee is 500 Thai baht or THB (14 USD), down from 2,000 THB ( 55 USD). The fee for applying for a temporary...
