Statistics 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 MoreThe Commerce Ministry has threatened to take legal action against online traders who do not disclose their price tags and opt to relay prices through online messages. A source from the Commerce Ministry who requested anonymity said the ministry has received lots of complaints from customers about online purchases, especially via Facebook, where the sellers choose […]
Read MoreTHAI BEVERAGE (ThaiBev) is revising its crucial strategy with a focus on increasing organic growth and continuous expansion of its food business operating under its current restaurant brands. Nongnuch Buranasetkul, senior vice president and food business chief for Thailand, said that ThaiBev had entered the food business by acquiring Oishi Group in 2008, which had […]
Read MoreTEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) Governor Perry Warjiyo said the decline in import, particularly in the oil and gas sector, in September, showed the results of BI and the government’s efforts to reduce the current account deficit in recent times. “There are early signs that lead to better improvement,” Perry said at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Monday, […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Policy makers should take into account the household income disparities among different states in Malaysia when formulating policies to achieve their targeted objectives, Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) argues. The institute’s research director Suraya Ismail said if policy makers did not root their policies in the context of the different realities faced by households […]
Read More
Thailand
