by VF | Apr 14, 2022 | Linkss, ASEAN, Business, Lifestyle, News
Siam Makro will open two more Makro shopping malls in Cambodia. Currently, Siam Makro owns one shopping mall in Phnom Penh and another in Krong Siem Reap, according to the foreign trade promotion office at the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh. Cambodia’s economy is...
by VF | Feb 25, 2022 | ASEAN, Asia, Health, Technology
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Serbia will also receive support from the hub in South Africa to develop messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines, the WHO says. “Those countries were vetted by a group of experts and proved that they could absorb the technology...
by VF | Dec 7, 2021 | ASEAN, Asia, Business, News, Visions
In the late 19th Century, France and Great Britain had Siam surrounded from Burma (Myanmar) to the West and French Indochina to the West (Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam). To the south was British Malaya (Malaysia). An eleven-week war with France in 1893 and considerable...
by VF | Oct 2, 2021 | ASEAN, Asia, Business, Environment, Finland, Technology
Based on the annual Fragile States Index, Finland is the most ‘sustainable’ country in the world. Singapore is the best Southeast Asian country, at 162nd place. Vietnam is positioned reasonably well, at 110th. Meanwhile, the 2020 index ranks Thailand in...
by VF | Mar 11, 2021 | ASEAN, Environment, Lifestyle, Travel
In this inviting and intimate story, reporter and cameraman Matt Davis travels around Bali and discovers an island in the midst of some serious soul...