China continues to be one of Brunei Darussalam’s top trading partners and an increasing source of foreign firect investment (FDI), with total trade amounting to BND2.54 billion in 2018, Permanent Secretary (Investment) at the Ministry of Finance and Eco-nomy (MoFE) Haji Khairuddin bin Haji Abdul Hamid said yesterday. He made the statement at the first […]
Read MoreA ‘Zero plastic waste tourism’ campaign was promoted at a conference in Quang Nam province’s Hoi An city in Vietnam last week with the participation of 200 representatives of NGOs, Unesco and businesses. As well as boosting communications on plastic waste, some members of the Quang Nam provincial tourism association (QTA) have applied their own […]
Read MoreThe Energy Policy Administration Committee (Epac) has agreed to reduce a levy collection from gasoline and diesel users by another one baht and 60 satang per litre respectively from Wednesday. The levy reduction is part of urgent measures to tackle a short-term price hike in global oil after two refineries in Saudi Arabia were attacked […]
Read MoreTOKYO: China, Japan and South Korea have set ambitious targets to put millions of hydrogen-powered vehicles on their roads by the end of the next decade at a cost of billions of dollars. But to date, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) have been upstaged by electric vehicles, which are increasingly becoming a mainstream option due […]
Read MoreAn Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Ministry official said on Tuesday that the recent attack on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia would unlikely affect Indonesian oil supplies because the former’s production remained sufficient to fulfill export commitments to the latter. ESDM acting oil and gas director general Djoko Siswanto said Indonesia imported around 110,000 barrels […]
Read MoreIf the recent spike in global oil prices results in higher petroleum product prices, it will make Myanmar fuel imports more expensive, industry experts said. Global oil prices jumped 20 percent in the wake of the weekend’s attack on a Saudi Arabian oil facility that has removed 5 percent of global supplies, or an estimated 5.7 […]
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