SINGAPORE – Singapore’s headline inflation picked up in February but stayed muted, after having been flat the month before. The consumer price index – the main measure of inflation – rose 0.5 per cent in February compared to the same month a year ago, according to Department of Statistics data released on Friday (March 23). […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – The signing and implementation of 20 new free trade agreements will accelerate production, trade and investment, thus creating a precondition for the strong growth of the logistics industry in the time to come, experts forecast. Nguyen Duy Minh, General Secretary of the Vietnam Logistics Association, said that the country’s logistics industry has surged […]
Read MoreFast Retailing Co, operator of the Uniqlo fashion brand from Japan, is set to expand further in Thailand after today’s official opening of Southeast Asia’s first Uniqlo roadside store on Phatthanakan Road in eastern Bangkok. Uniqlo Phatthanakan has a sales space of 1,440 square metres and expects to draw 2,000 visitors a day. The investment value […]
Read MoreThe Trade Ministry has found some importers to have misused the post-border check policy implemented in early February. Trade Ministry international trade director general Oke Nurwan said the “naughty” importers had misused the policy by not including valid documents and making false declarations about the goods they had imported. “We are investigating the case. It […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: China’s move to throw down the gauntlet in the ensuing trade war with the US will leave Malaysia’s highly open economy vulnerable as exports account for 71% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). While heavy foreign positioning in government bonds shows that the exposure to capital outflows is high, Nomura Global Markets […]
Read MoreMONETARY authorities decided to keep key interest rates unchanged on Thursday with inflation expected to remain on target this year and the next. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) overnight borrowing, lending and deposit rates were maintained at 3 percent, 3.5 percent and 2.5 percent, respectively, during the Monetary Board’s second policy meeting for 2018. […]
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