The Lancang Mekong Corporation Summit unlocked more funding for the Mekong River region. But not all the outcomes will be positive. By Yasmin Rasidi The second Lancang Mekong Cooperation Summit (LMC) concluded in January. Six national leaders met in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. The six leaders were from countries situated alongside the Mekong River. Chinese […]
Read MoreTEMPO.CO, Jakarta – A Presidential palace spokesman said in three years the government of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has succeeded in slashing inflation from 8.36 percent in 2014 to 3.61 percent year-on-year in 2017. “The inflation dropped sharply in three years that the prices remained within the purchasing power of the people,” Yanuar Nugroho, Deputy II of the […]
Read MoreThe Thai Life Assurance Association (TLAA) forecasts 4-6% growth in life insurance premiums this year, driven by 5-30% lower costs for premiums after the recent implementation of a new mortality table. 2018 is the first year that the association is giving a range for the forecast of premium growth as the TLAA cannot estimate the […]
Read MoreHCM CITY — The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Province of Kien Giang is soliciting investment in industrial parks and other projects as a means to boost socio-economic development. It is eyeing investment, especially in infrastructure, in the Thanh Loc, Thuan Yen, Xeo Ro, Tac Cau, and Kien Luong II industrial parks, workers’housing, and a service […]
Read MoreSMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore and the Asean region see the need to invest more in technology in order to succeed under increasingly challenging conditions. These are the findings of the Asean SME Transformation Study by United Overseas Bank (UOB), EY and Dun & Bradstreet. The study found that three in five (60%) […]
Read MoreWhen Xi Jinping became Secretary of the Communist Party in 2008, China was facing hardships triggered by the global financial crisis. Meanwhile, the Washington-driven Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) coalesced Pacific nations into a trading bloc aligned to the US to compete with China’s influence on its neighbours. China’s model as the world’s manufacturing foundry at that […]
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