The Lao People’s Democratic Republic has signed an agreement with Electricité du Cambodge to sell 200 megawatts of electricity to Cambodia until 2021.

A new bridge now links the border towns of Myawaddy in Myanmar and Mae Sot in Thailand.

This is the statement issued by the Joint Committee for the Cross-Border Transport Facilitation Agreement during its seventh meeting in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 13 March 2019.

The Government of Viet Nam and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed in March a $188 million loan to improve 198 kilometers of roads in northwestern provinces.

Thailand has adopted progressive policies that guarantee migrants’ access to many essential services regardless of legal status, including education and health care.  However, barriers continue to hamper their use of these services in practice, says a United Nations report.

An international seaport project in Southern Cambodia will serve as a gateway for direct ferry services to Viet Nam and later to other destinations in the Gulf of Thailand. The fast ferry services are expected to boost tourism in the Southern Coastal Subcorridor of the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Quang Tri province is gearing up to become a center for energy production in the north central coastal region of Viet Nam. It recently approved the development of four 30-megawatt wind power plants worth more than $200 million.

The People’s Republic of China launched last month a high-speed rail service between Yunnan province’s capital Kunming and Lijiang, a tourist destination and UNESCO World Heritage site.

Pilot projects in the Greater Mekong Subregion are helping increase small farmers’ income by enhancing their access to the lucrative organic food market using a community-based certification system.