The Hanoitimes – Generation Z is estimated to be around 15 million people by 2025, representing approximately 25% of the country’s workforce. Generation Z, born between 1996 and 2005, is already having a marked impact on the consumer landscape in Vietnam given their growing purchasing power while they are years from fully establishing themselves, according to […]
Read MoreJAKARTA: Indonesia’s trade balance unexpectedly swung back to surplus in September as imports and exports grew much slower than expected, data released by the statistics bureau showed yesterday. Indonesia, South-East Asia’s largest economy, reported a trade surplus of US$230mil for September, compared with a US$500mil deficit expected in a Reuters poll. The country revised its trade deficit in August to US$944mil. September imports were worth […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: The gap in income between the rich, middle class and poor in Malaysia has widened since 2008, according to a study by Khazanah Research Institute (KRI). In its “The State of Households 2018” report, the research outfit of sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd noted that the gap in the real average income […]
Read More8-month tally still up 2.4% to $21.2 billion MANILA, Philippines — Personal remittances from overseas Filipinos declined by 1.4 percent to $2.76 billion from the $2.8 billion in August recorded in the same month last year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday. Despite the decline in August, the BSP said the eight-month tally […]
Read MoreStatistics Indonesia (BPS) announced on Monday that the country recorded a trade surplus of US$230 million in September following month-to-month (mtm) deficits — $1.02 billion in August and $2.03 billion in July. In September, both imports and exports declined. Exports decreased 6.58 percent mtm to $14.83 billion in September, from the figure in August, which was recorded […]
Read MoreThe highest inflation in almost a decade is eating away at support for President Rodrigo Duterte’s government and forcing sacrifices to his flagship economic agenda. Consumer prices last month were up 6.7% from a year earlier, cutting into the livelihoods of this nation’s 100 million people—especially the poor, whose support the authoritarian populist needs in […]
Read More
Thailand
