Manpower Minister Hanif Dhakiri has described the adjusted minimum wage for 2019, an 8.03 percent increase from the current figure, as a fair balance between the needs of employers, employees and prospective employees. The new minimum wage, he said, would below enough so that employers would not need to fire workers, but high enough to […]
Read MoreMANY governments are working on national policies on the digital economy. They correctly believe that the forces of computerisation, robotics and artificial intelligence are fast changing production and consumption systems. The old ways of doing things are being disrupted and if we don’t change with the times, we will be left behind. In Malaysia, there […]
Read MoreThe US-China tariff slugfest has for months triggered warnings that it could impact global economic growth, and recent data indicates the trade tension is indeed beginning to bite. Manufacturing gauges in several export-reliant Asian countries, as well as China, weakened in October as gloom deepens over the trade outlook. China’s official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), […]
Read MoreEmerald Resources, the Australian-listed mining firm behind Cambodia’s Okvau gold project in Mondulkiri province, will start its first large-scale gold project in the Kingdom in early 2020. Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Yos Monirath who said this, added that the firm obtained an industrial mining licence in July and actively raised funding to develop […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – According to the funds, though the FOL is raised to 100 percent under Decree No.60/2015/ND-CP, it still prevents foreign investors from pouring funds into the conditional business lines. Many foreign investment funds expect the State Securities Commission (SSC), the country’s stock market watchdog, to supplement and revise some provisions of the draft Law […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Inflation likely slowed to 6.5 percent in October due to declining prices of rice and other food items, according to the Department of Finance. In his latest economic bulletin, Finance Undersecretary and chief economist Gil Beltran said year-on-year inflation last month may have eased to 6.5 percent from the 6.7 percent recorded […]
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