HANOI — As importing countries impose trade barriers to protect their goods and products, they often utilise trade remedies against exporting countries. There are short-term solutions for exporters, like Vietnam. But in the long run, enterprises still need strategic planning and specific steps to overcome trade barriers in order to increase exports and develop sustainably. […]
Read MoreSiam Cement Group (SCG), Thailand’s largest cement producer, has reported that Cambodia and Indonesia are the top markets in Southeast Asia in terms of the company’s economic performance, with the construction boom in the kingdom playing a significant part in SCG’s bottom-line during the first nine months of the year. According to SCG’s consolidated financial […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — A celebrated playwright and coincidentally one of the founders of London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), George Bernard Shaw once famously quipped “If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.” Economics as a field has been characterized by a number of disagreements. One only […]
Read MoreMore than 150 prospective investors and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam will be joining a business forum in mid-November in Bangkok in the hope of finding new business partners. Investors and SMEs from 19 provinces in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam (CMTV) situated along the Southern Economic Corridor […]
Read MoreLaos and Vietnam have agreed on the agenda of their cooperation programme on information over the five year period from 2016 to 2020. Laos’ Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Prof. Dr Bosengkham Vongdara, and Vietnam’s Minister of Information and Communication, Truong Minh Tuan, yesterday signed the cooperation action plan in Vientiane. The two ministries […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Philippine Business Bank (PBB) reported a core income of P673.7 million in the nine months to September this year, rising 50.6 percent from P447.3 million in the same period last year. In a statement, PBB said net interest income went up 19 percent to P2.2 billion in the third quarter from P1.8 […]
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