HCM City to choose contractors for tidal flood-control project

The PM has authorised the chairman of the city’s People’s Committee to work with the Ministry of Planning and Investment for the bidding selection process in accordance with the bidding law, and the city must be responsible for its decision. 
Ho Chi Minh City is carrying out a flood-control project in 19 of 24 districts involving an area of 570 square kilometres and a population of 6.5 million, according to the Steering Centre of the Urban Flood Control Programme.
The project is funded by loans from the World Bank and funds from the city, according to the centre. – Viet Nam News

$143m poured in Myanmar SEZ 
From April to mid-October, the Myanmar Investment Commission has approved 52 deals worth US$623 million (Bt22 billion). Foreign investment in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone has reached $143.5 million this fiscal year, according to Aung Naing Oo, director-general of the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration.
In the period, the Myanmar Investment Commission approved 52 deals worth $623 million. Foreign investment until September was almost $1.3 billion.
Investment in zones A and B of Thilawa SEZ was expected to reach $1.7 billion, said Myint Zaw, general manager of Myanmar Japan Thilawa Development. – Myanmar Eleven

Start-ups told to use techno 
Laotian start-ups still use less technology than neighbouring countries to promote products or the Internet to start their businesses, a science and technology official said.
Only 2.4 per cent of Laotians use the Internet to run their businesses, which is far less than in the other nine Asean countries, with the exception of Myanmar, which was not in the analysis.
Sumana Chulamani, director-general of the Technology and Innovation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, made the remarks on Friday at a seminar on technology and innovation for start-ups during “Lao Techmart” in Vientiane. – Vientiane Times