The Airport Rail Link will start its service half an hour sooner to try to tackle overcrowding, Transport Minister Pailin Chuchottaworn said on Thursday. Pailin said he had instructed the Airport Rail Link to start service at 5.30am instead of 6am so that services could accommodate 2,100 more passengers each day. The electric train service […]
Read MoreSUSTAINABILITY reporting among Singapore-listed companies has begun, but more needs to be done in terms of recognising climate change as a financial risk, says a KPMG survey on corporate responsibility (CR) reporting. According to the report, 84 per cent of the largest companies in Singapore are now undertaking CR reporting, faring better than the global […]
Read MoreDEALMAKING in Singapore has increased by 4 per cent in 2017 year-to-date, the highest since 2014, with real estate taking the lead in deal values as Nesta Investment Holdings Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Global Logistic Properties (GLP) gave the sector a boost. This is according to Thomson Reuters’ Singapore M&A (mergers and acquisitions) preliminary review […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s services sector grew at an annual growth rate of 7.2% to 818,311 establishments between 2010 and 2015, the Department of Statistics Malaysia revealed. According to the findings of the Economic Census 2016 for the services sector, sector income grew 8.3% per annum (p.a.) to RM2,004bil over the same five-year period, while value […]
Read MoreAlmost daily, trucks piled full of China-made goods ply the Muse-Mandalay highway, bound for markets located across the Mandalay Region. They include a dizzying array of products, including food, clothes, tools, vehicles and machinery. Because Chinese goods are cheaper compared to goods manufactured locally, demand from consumers in Mandalay has been on the rise. On […]
Read MoreThe memorandum of understanding (MoU) to encourage transborder trade between Thailand and Cambodia has been ruled exempt from Thai parliamentary approval by Thailand’s Constitutional Court. The MoU was initially scheduled to go into effect on November 13, but was postponed due to Thailand’s new customs laws. Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Thailand reached $5.6 billion […]
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