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PM: 700 Million Liters of Fuel Smuggled into Laos Every Year

Vientiane Times reports that the Prime Minister told the ongoing National Assembly session that while the country officially imports approximately 1,200 million liters of fuel each year, reports provided by neighboring countries suggest as much as 1,900 million liters have been delivered to Laos. Some 700 million liters of fuel have been smuggled into the country in […]

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Pakatan: Government should cut expenses, not subsidies, to help Malaysians with rising prices

KUALA LUMPUR, June 27 — The federal government should institute immediate cost-cutting measures such as freezing all official trips abroad and suspending mega projects to free up funds to address Malaysia’s living cost crisis, said a Pakatan Harapan (PH) committee. The coalition’s cost of living committee also suggested that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri […]

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Thailand: The long road to recovery

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced on June 17 that Thailand plans to lift most of its travel restrictions and virus containment measures from July 1. Six days later, the country reported 81 cases of local transmission from the two new subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, which are spreading steadily in Europe. Even though […]

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