There is no country other than Myanmar where foreign investors can come and invest, where the democratic transition is relatively smooth and where an economy opens up to the world at the same time, said one of the local tycoons at the Bloomberg Invest Myanmar summit held on March 9 in Yangon. U Zaw Zaw, […]
Read MoreThai property developer Sansiri, which has a partnership with its home country’s mass transit operator BTS group, is making a big push to go international, starting with Singapore. The developer opened its first international office at Ocean Financial Centre this week, and plans to open several more in China as it seeks to increase sales […]
Read MoreA budget allocation of $203,400,000 for the Ministry of Development for financial year 2017-2018 has been approved during the Legislative Council meeting which entered its 7th day, which also saw the approval of the Ministry of Religious Affairs’ budget. Earlier, Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Bahrin bin Abdullah, the Minister of Development in […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines – The number of unemployed Filipinos swelled in January after typhoons during the tailend of 2016 caused many farm workers to lose jobs, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said yesterday. The January 2017 Labor Force Survey of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed the nationwide unemployment rate rose to 6.6 percent […]
Read MoreTEMPO.CO, Jakarta plans to regulate the lowest fares for taxi-hailing services next month. “The top and bottom fares will be [regulated],” Director General of Transportation for the Ministry of Transportation Pudji Hartanto said on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. The Organization of Land Transportation (Organda) had earlier protested against the lack of minimum fares for taxi-hailing […]
Read MoreThe government will extend anti-dumping tariffs on steel pipes from China and South Korea and coiled and uncoiled hot-rolled steel from Brazil, Iran and Turkey until May 15 to protect the local industry. According to Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn, who chaired a meeting of the anti-dumping and countervailing duties committee earlier this month, the panel […]
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