TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) chief Thomas Lembong has called for foreign direct investment in new tourist destinations that are currently being developed by the government. He said that investment in the sector would be profitable. Thomas said that investors who have invested in Bali in the past ten years in hotels, resorts and villas […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Business sentiment among Malaysian companies improved further for the third consecutive quarter in the fourth quarter (Q4 17), reaching its new peak in six consecutive quarters. According to Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) Malaysia’s Business Optimism Index (BOI) study, overall BOI climbed from +3.40 percentage points in Q3 17 to +5.52 percentage points in […]
Read MoreHANOI – The National Financial Supervisory Committee (NFSC) anticipates gross economic growth of Vietnam in 2017 will be more than 6.7 per cent. The target, several months ago, was forecast to be beyond reach. NFSC said the Government’s policies to improve investment climate and promote businesses posted positive results and fuelled gross domestic product (GDP) […]
Read MoreDiamonds can at last be an investor’s best friend, the Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDIX) said on Tuesday (Oct 10), as it launched a new standardised form of the precious stones to rival gold ingots as a safe-haven alternative to cash. The industry says diamonds are the world’s most concentrated form of wealth, but investors […]
Read MoreTEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) announced that it would distribute electronic money (e-money) cards for free on October 16-31. Pungky Wibowo, director of electronic money at the BI’s payment system policies and supervisory department, said in Jakarta on Tuesday, October 10, 2017, that the toll road users who have not acquired e-money cards yet would be given […]
Read MoreHANOI: Vietnam’s flag carrier and Air France have signed an agreement to deepen their cooperation to tap the growing travel market between Vietnam and Europe. Vietnam Airlines and Air France have been cooperating for 20 years on aircraft maintenance and crew training and began code-sharing in 2010, but they said the partnership agreement signed by […]
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