KUALA LUMPUR: More workers were hired by the manufacturing sector in November 2018 while higher salaries and sales value were also recorded, according to the Statistics Department’s data. Its chief statistician Datuk Seri Mohd Uzir Mahidin said on Friday the total employees hired in the sector rose by 2% or 21,200 to 1.075 million workers from 1.054 million persons in November […]
Read MoreSome 49 private and public institutes have entered into an agreement to establish a new social enterprise called Thai Digital Platform Co to provide integrated tourism information about Thailand. Under the plan, a new mobile application, TagThai, pronounced similar to takthai (greetings) in Thai, will be introduced in April. The service is scheduled to be fully […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – Retail sales fell in November, after two months of year-on-year growth, according to figures released by the Singapore Department of Statistics on Friday (Jan 11). Takings at the till dipped by 3 per cent compared to November 2017, dropping further than Bloomberg’s 2.4 per cent forecast. Car sales registered a big drop, declining […]
Read MoreTHE Consumer Price Index (CPI) in November 2018 increased by 0.2 per cent year-on-year compared to November 2017 due to an increase in prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages by 0.9 per cent while non-food prices decreased by 0.002 per cent, according to statistics released by the Department of Economic Planning and Development (JPKE). The […]
Read MoreThe Philippine Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has rejected the request from Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek to operate in the country because of a local regulation on corporate ownership. The LTFRB pre-accreditation committee’s Resolution No. 096, dated Dec. 20, 2018, rejects Go-Jek’s application through local transport network company (TNC) Velox Technology Philippines, kompas.com reported on recently. The board rejected the application on the […]
Read MoreHANOI — Embracing the digital transformation is critical for Vietnamese bankers in the era of Industry 4.0, experts said during the 2019 Asian Banker Conference in Hanoi on Thursday. The event, themed ‘Future of Finance Vietnam’, was organised by Singapore-based The Asian Banker, a provider of strategic business intelligence to the region’s financial services community. The event brought financial […]
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