Thailand's Ministry of Interior and the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) are looking to withdraw military forces from southernmost provinces by 2027, with plans to strengthen volunteer forces in the area.
Socioeconomic development in the second quarter of 2023 and later is forecast to be complex and unpredictable with more difficulties and challenges than opportunities.
After months of fighting COVID-19, Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces plan to gradually resume economic activities from October 1 since they have basically controlled the pandemic.
More than 16,000 experts and medical workers have been deployed by the Ministry of Health to Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Minister Nguyen Thanh Long.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the Ministry of Health (MoH) to promptly allocate more COVID-19 vaccines to Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces, which are the country’s current largest hotspots.
Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen has urged southern provinces to tighten prevention measures to curb the spread of the virus amid the worsening COVID-19 situation.
Provinces in the southern region plan to expand industrial parks (IPs) and continue improving the business climate to lure foreign investment following the containment of the third COVID-19 outbreak.
A trade fair introducing local specialties of four southern provinces - An Giang, Dong Thap, Long An and Tay Ninh - opened in Chau Doc city of An Giang on July 24.
The southern provinces of Binh Duong and Dong Nai, which have the highest export growth rate and number of businesses in the wooden products sector, are poised to take advantage of the benefits of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
A lot of activities are taking place across southern provinces to celebrate the Khmer ethnic group’s Chol Chnam Thmay (New Year) festival, which falls on April 14-16.
Southern localities have planted about 764,500 hectares of the Winter-Spring rice crops so far this year, down 14.4 percent from the same period last year as flood water receded slowly.
Security forces in southern provinces of Thailand have been vigilant over possibilities of increasing violence on the founding day of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) rebel group (October 25).
Two Tibetan bears which were illegally possessed in southern Tay Ninh province were sent to Hon Me Rescue Centre in the southern province of Kien Giang.
Southern provinces and cities have drawn up a plan for prevention of avian influenza A(H7N9) as requested by the Prime Minister, following several outbreaks in China.
A large number of police and military forces were deployed to ensure security in southern provinces of Thailand with schools re-opening on November 1, reported the country’s media.
HCM City and other southern provinces need thousands of labours, mostly manual workers in industries such as textiles, footwear, wood processing and electronics after Tet (the Lunar New Year).
Officials from 19 southern provinces gathered to review outcomes of their forest protection programmes since the beginning of the year in Kien Giang on November 5.
