As of this week, travelers entering Vietnam through Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City no longer need to prove that they have tested negative for Covid-19.
Vietnam Drops Test Requirements for Entry

Confusion Ensues as Thailand Opens Land Borders But Laos Remains Closed

Confusion has ensued at border checkpoints between Laos and Thailand this morning following regulations reopening Thailand but leaving Laos closed.
Wak Doyok and Fizo Omar talk about finance together with OctaFX

Malaysia’s fashion guru Wak Doyok and popular actor Fizo Omar, who recently became the first-ever brand ambassadors of OctaFX in Malaysia, will share their financial knowledge and investing experience as part of the broker’s new project. The initiative aims to boost financial literacy in Malaysia, the need for which has been increasingly discussed at the state level.
According to Malaysian Financial Literacy Survey 2021, most Malaysians have space to improve their financial habits. About 43 percent of them are susceptible to financial shocks as they spend more than what they earn, and 57 percent do not have enough savings to last them more than three months in case they lose their source of income.
Although Malaysian youth are more willing to use e-wallets and invest in digital assets than the older population, they are actually more reckless than their parents when it comes to financial habits. With that said, the issue of financial literacy remains highly relevant for the wide Malaysian audience.
OctaFX is striving to contribute to the issue by giving direct and easy access to information on finance. Anyone willing to participate can ask any question about money or financial planning to Wak Doyok and Fizo Omar, and the celebrities will answer based on their personal experiences with trading and investing. Submitting a question is easy through the project’s page or by leaving a comment on OctaFX’s Facebook or Instagram. The broker will regularly publish the answers to the most interesting questions on its social media.
Fizo Omar feels happy to be a part of the project and truly believes in its mission.
‘We deсided on the Q&A format to make education easily accessible—and I am excited to share my knowledge,’ the actor said. ‘Anyone interested in finance can participate—you don’t have to be the broker’s client. Personally, I believe that everyone can become a master of their money, but it requires financial literacy.’
Wak Doyok also feels like he has a lot of personal experience to share:
‘I have been learning about and testing different investing methods for many years. Trading has become one of my favourite ways to preserve and grow my capital. During the pandemic, I realised I had been right to diversify my sources of income since it left me in a more secure position. Investing can be like a second salary—it is something I would recommend everyone to seriously consider.’
Malaysians will have a chance to ask their questions about finance and investments to the OctaFX brand ambassadors until 20 June. The authors of the best questions will receive valuable prizes, while the two first-prize winners will get the opportunity to spend a day in person with Wak Doyok or Fizo Omar. They will see how the celebrities manage to fit both their demanding jobs and investment in their daily lives.
About OctaFX
OctaFX is a global broker that has been providing online trading services worldwide since 2011. The company is involved in a comprehensive network of charity and humanitarian initiatives, including improvement of educational infrastructure, short-notice relief projects, supporting local communities and small to medium enterprises.
In the APAC region, it managed to capture the ‘Decade Of Excellence In Forex Asia 2021’ award, the ‘Best Islamic FX Account 2020’ award, and the ‘Best CFD Broker Asia Pacific 2020’ award by Global Banking and Finance Review, World Finance, and Cfi.Co, respectively.
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Government of Laos Agrees to Raise Minimum Wage
The Government of Laos has agreed to a minimum wage increase amid a rising cost of living and rampant inflation.
Top US Official on East Asian Affairs to Visit Laos and Cambodia
The US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel J Kritenbrink will visit Cambodia and Laos from 1 – 7 May.
Breaking the NFT mold – Liquidity launches LQT IDO Launchpad update
Liquidifty platform is one of the best BNB NFT marketplace and a Launchpad with a focus on utility in projects and collectibles, offering a wide range of events and investment tools in crypto like INO, IDO, airdrops, and others.
The interface of the platform is very friendly and simple – anyone can easily trade NFTs, create NFTs or its own NFT-store in a few minutes.
The highest-ranking NFT collections on the platform: GameFi projects like Drunk Robots, and Cyber City, as well as the gaming guild Skill Guilds and the NFT launchpad Equinox.
Cross-chain Opportunities
Liquidifty allows you to sell or/and buy NFTs from the BNB chain and Polygon, very soon Ethereum, Avalanche, Fantom and others will be implemented. We are also developing cross-chain oracles that will analyze prices for NFTs on different blockchains and estimate the price of each NFT held by the users.
Individual artists can also easily create NFT collections and list them on Liquidifty. All assets are traded in BNB, Liquidifty (LQT), Metal and Polygon so far.
NFT Marketplace
With Liquidifty you can create an NFT-store for your project and make it custom by changing the appearance, description and attached links to your sources – the page is completely yours. Liquidifty specialists will support you during all the stages: from the launch to the analytics of the sales and more.
You can mint anything in one minute: 1/1 or multi-edition, song, movie, whatever you want with flexible royalties and changeable prices.
Liquidifty provides additional marketing support and sales mechanics like Mystery boxes, gleam campaigns, ama sessions and whitelists.
Launchpad
LQT Launchpad is a place where users can earn money by participating in IDOs, INOs, and Airdrops from the most anticipated GameFi, DeFi, and NFT projects. Users can also participate in weekly cash prizes and get tickets for Private sales.
To become a LQT Launchpad member, you need to buy NFT on the Liquidifty marketplace and hold it until you want to get special bonuses. There are Gas, Liquid, and Solid NFT-cards, which refer to three statuses for LQT Launchpad membership.
LQT Launchpad members can buy, sell, and trade these NFTs on the open market as they see fit.
Marketing Activities
Liquidifty team provides not only tech but also marketing and sales support. You will be offered collaboration with games for marketing exposure, additional promotion from influencers and paid socials, activities to raise the engagement and sales for your project.
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Tiger Bank leads successful real-world professionals into the world of Web3 The actual exchange of assets in the virtual world for real resources

Project details: https://youtu.be/MRzhy85hUYQ
Web3, also known as the Third-Generation Web, differs totally from Web2 world. Web2 is dominated by tech giants, and everything is centralized and controlled by specific companies and organizations. However, with the vigorous development of blockchain technology, the world of Web3 has arrived, and decentralized services and products are gradually extended, in which builders, creators and participants can take part in the formulation of game rules. “Forbes” reported in January this year that the number of users of Web3 products worldwide has exceeded 10 million.
Holding “Tiger Bank NFT” and getting two increasing added-value plans
To help NFT enthusiasts who want to get a seat in the Web3 world as soon as possible, the project team has designed complete long-term value-added plans when the project is released. Therefore, relevant added value can continue to increase with the participation and interaction of the holders. This mechanism stems from the project’s unique “salary mechanism” – each NFT has its “salary leaderboard” besides its rarity, called “TigerDollar”.
These TigerDollars obtained in the Web3 world can be actually exchanged for real-world resources. For example, holders can pay TigerDollars for NFT master lecture tickets. If the holders have their own NFT projects, they can also by paying a certain amount of TigerDollar to get the resource support from the project party.
The first added-value plan is “community support”, which is a community that gathers successful people from all walks of life. As long as the holders join the Tiger Bank community, through the mechanism and communication activities designed by the project party, they can rapidly establish a personal network in Web3, where there are business partners and success stories, and holders from all over the world. This strong community also provides each other with opportunities and business potential to explore different regions and countries.
The second added-value plan is “game value-added”. The project party will hold various tasks in Discord. Holders can earn “TigerDollar” for their tigers through tasks. By interaction and participation, they can get more community support.
Tiger Bank was founded by Eagle Sky, an Asian digital marketing group. So Tiger Bank is not only a brand or project but also an experienced marketing and project management team. It is active in the marketing field of both Web2 and Web3. In the future, it will continue to support its NFT holders with valuable services and actions in the web2 world.
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VPBank announced important business plans and targets for 2022 at AGM

At the AGM, VPBank was given a go-ahead by its shareholders to issue/offer its shares to staff under the ESOP scheme, and at the same time carry out the plan to further strengthen its capital via the share issuance from equity and the private placement with a strategic investor.
30 million of treasury stocks, accordingly, will be available for the bank staff at the preferential price of VND10,000 a share. Meanwhile, the bank decided to distribute 50% stock dividend to existing shareholders, using the bank’s undistributed profit after tax and reserve. The total value of the share issuance will increase the chartered capital from VND45.06 trillion to VND67.43 trillion.
In addition, the private placement worth up to 15% of the chartered capital to strategic foreign investor, once completed, will eventually bolster the bank’s chartered capital to VND79.33 trillion. The bank will accordingly lift its foreign ownership limit to 30% of the chartered capital to accommodate the private placement to the foreign investor accordingly. The proceeds obtained from the share issuance will be utilised to enhance VPBank’s financial and management capabilities, in order to extend the operation scale of the bank to serve growing credit demand.
Within the scope of the AGM, VPBank was also permitted to go through with the acquisition of OPES Insurance Company to expand its business lines to non-life and health insurance, to pair with its current life insurance business collaborated with AIA Vietnam. On the other hand, the bank will contribute VND20 trillion towards its securities arm of ASC – a subsidiary obtained earlier in the year, to tap into the investment banking and wealth management segments.
Aiming high for the year, VPBank set its business targets for 2022 with total assets growing at 27 per cent to VND697.4 trillion, credit growth at 35% to VND518.4 trillion and profit before tax bolstering by 107% to approximately VND29.7 trillion.
Last year, VPBank recorded a consolidated profit before tax of VND14.36 trillion, an increase of 10.3% year-on-year. Its total assets grew by 30.6 per cent to VND547.4 trillion while credit to customer jumped 18.9% to VND384.03 trillion, accomplishing 111% and 102% of the annual target, respectively.
About VPBank
Established in 1993, VPBank is currently one of biggest private banks in Vietnam. The bank operates in wide ranges of business including retail banking, corporate banking, wealth management and consumer finance. The objective of VPBank is to become a top-ranking retail bank among joint stock commercial banks in Vietnam in terms of business scale, market share and service quality. On that basis, VPBank shall make the highest profits for its shareholders, create stable jobs and career development opportunities for employees, and make considerable contributions to the State Budget and to the general development of the economy and society as well.
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