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...Perhaps less so the objects made from cow dung, cigarette butts, old newspapers and sweepings from dog groomers....
...“You almost feel like you are chewing the air,” said the husband of a Thai-speaking expatriate couple, checking in to an almost empty property. The haze spreads across northern Thailand....
...Nguyen Dac Viet Dung, Sendo’s chairman, says he plans to raise more money to keep growing....
...Nikkei staff writers CK Tan in Kuala Lumpur, Kim Dung Tong in Ho Chi Minh City and Jun Suzuki in Jakarta contributed to this story....
...The timber-framed walls were often infilled with a mixture of straw and animal dung....
...Indeed, the Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai equity markets are the only Asian bourses to have risen this year....
...Yields on Thai ten-year bonds are at a multi-year low of 1.9 per cent, while Malaysia’s are 29 basic points lower YTD....
...Thailand Our December survey consumer data found little optimism among Thais at the start of 2016....
...They include Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s eldest son, Nguyen Thanh Nghi, 39, who was recently elected as Communist party chief in Kien Gang province....
...In October, after surviving an internal party putsch to unseat him earlier in 2012, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung apologised for the government’s weakness in economic management, especially in the supervision...
...Last month in Ly Thai To park in central Hanoi, a group of about 1,000 young people wearing rainbow bandanas and carrying rainbow flags erupted into a carefully rehearsed song-and-dance routine....
...The slew of negative headlines in Vietnam’s normally restrained state media has prompted Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnam’s prime minister, to order the Haiphong government to undertake an official inquiry into...
...Yingluck strikes Thai coalition deal Yingluck Shinawatra has formed a five-party coalition led by her Puea Thai party, a day after her election victory in Thailand, the FT reports....
...Electricity demands could limit Beijing-Hanoi rift With the long-running maritime dispute between China and Vietnam threatening to boil over once again, Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnam’s prime minister, warned...
...Unified (Left to Right): Laos Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, Philippines President Gloria Arroyo, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thai Foreign Minister...
...He was sent to work in the fields, collecting cow dung. He didn’t start school till he was 12, and his childhood memories are mostly of hunger....
...The completion last year of the country’s first refinery, at Dung Quat on the central coast, has gone some way to restoring the balance....
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