The Meeting on the Establishment of the Working Group on Environment Cooperation, 5 February 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam Summary:The Meeting on the Establishment of the Working Group on Environment Cooperation was held on 5 February 2010 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Representatives from ACMECS member countries as we...

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Ministers from the region attending the third Ayayewady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) Summit have agreed to boost cooperation in the areas of economy, trade, investment and tourism to cope with the neg...

Thailand is to ask four neighbouring countries to issue a political statement reaffirming cooperation in a bird flu joint surveillance system at the forthcoming summit of Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (Acmecs) next month. The Acmecs working group on public health is to m...

As a new donor country, Thailand keenly looks forward to a forthcoming summit with Laos, Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam as a way of boosting its sagging image and raising its regional profile. These countries are the recipients of Thai development assistance.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is conc...

Leaders of ACMECS (Ayeyawady-Chao Phya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy) have shared their plans to fight avian influenza in the region. Set up in 2003, ACMECS aims to boost the economic potential and cooperation between its five member countries.

Thailand will contribute Bt100 million to a fun...

BANGKOK, Oct. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Thailand will host the second Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) summit early next month with a focus on containing avian influenza--bird flu--and pledge to help the neighboring countries contain any epidemic.

Thai Prime Minister T...

Worries about bird flu have overtaken a regional economic summit in Bangkok this week by heads of government from Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The five government chiefs' two days of meetings begin Wednesday as health authorities across Southeast Asia battle to contain a spreading...