The Philippines should prepare local exporters to participate in an online trading platform to help their businesses grow as they work together to achieve an export target of between $122 billion and $131 billion by 2022, a Trade official said. Department of Trade and Industry-Export Marketing Bureau Director Senen Perlada is encouraging exporters to innovate […]
Read MoreThe government’s Thailand 4.0 scheme — meant to usher in the country into more value-added, innovative and creative sectors — has made the Board of Investment (BoI) one of the busiest state agencies as it reworks its processes and structures to promote technological changes. One of the novelties is the establishment of the five new […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S exports continued to record growth in November, but has eased from October’s stellar showing due to high base effects from a year ago. Non-oil domestic exports (NODX) rose 9.1 per cent in November from a year ago, down from the revised 20.5 per cent growth seen in October. November’s NODX still beat Reuters economist […]
Read MoreTHAI Beverage Public Co’s (ThaiBev) Vietnamese drinks unit has registered to bid for a 53.59 per cent stake in Saigon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Joint Stock Corp (Sabeco), and will price its bid by 3pm on Monday, Singapore time, the food and drink group announced before today’s market opening. ThaiBev’s associated company, Vietnam Beverage, had earlier indicated its […]
Read MoreVIENTIANE – Vietnamese businesses see Laos as an attractive destination and will continue to invest in the country despite a slowdown in outbound investment, Planning and Investment Minister Nguyen Chi Dung said on Saturday. Dung, also Chairman of the Vietnam-Laos Co-operation Committee, told Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith in Vientiane that Vietnamese firms hope for continued […]
Read MoreSocfin Cambodia, the local branch of a Europe-based international rubber producing company that currently operates a 7,500-hectare rubber plantation in Mondulkiri, has announced plans to open the doors to its first rubber factory next April, with an initial investment of $5.7 million, a company executive said last week. Jef Boedt, general manager of Socfin Cambodia, […]
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