A working group to study new issues related to intellectual property, labour, environment, and e-commerce is being set up by Asean, as the bloc is revving up new free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with non-Asean partners. Commerce permanent secretary Boonyarit Kalayanamit said the 35th meeting of High-Level Task Force on Asean Economic Integration, hosted by Thailand […]
Read MoreE-commerce, medical services and engineering have the highest-paying jobs across all career levels in Thailand, according to a report by employment portal JobsDB. While medical services and engineering were well-paying fields, e-commerce was found to be the only industry that ranked high at all career levels. IT and e-commerce were found to be the two most […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The Indonesian government is demanding for the Philippines to permanently lift the safeguards on the imports of coffee mixes in exchange for investments in the country. Agriculture Undersecretary Segfredo Serrano said Indonesia has gone straight to President Duterte to lobby for the removal of the special safeguards on coffee mixes which the Department of Agriculture invoked […]
Read MoreThe Government will provide policy support for automakers, but not at the cost of breaking its international integration commitments, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said. The Government leader made the statement at a meeting with representatives of relevant ministries, localities and car firms in Ha Noi on Tuesday. At the meeting, which focused on solutions to promote […]
Read MoreVietnam’s e-commerce is forecast to gross $10 billion by 2020. Significantly, e-commerce has offered more opportunities to Vietnamese enterprises even small-scale enterprises to sell commodities to any nation with meager expense. In addition to traditional export, e-commerce is becoming a pivotal channel for international exporters with annual growth rate of 20 percent – 30 percent […]
Read MorePRIVATE-sector economists have lowered Singapore’s economic growth forecast for 2019 once again, easing slightly from an earlier prediction of 2.6 per cent in December. They expect growth to come in at 2.5 per cent this year, according to the latest quarterly survey of professional forecasters by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, released on Wednesday. A […]
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