Private messaging app WhatsApp is in talks to bring its payment feature WhatsApp Pay to Indonesia, a spokesperson has said. WhatsApp Asia communications director Sravanthi Dev told the press on Wednesday that the company was in discussions over bringing WhatsApp Pay to the Southeast Asian market. “I know there’s a lot of interest in WhatsApp […]
Read MoreThailand placed in the bottom five out of 47 countries ranked for privacy protection, according to a study by Comparitech, a website that researches and compares tech services. Thailand and Malaysia posted scores of 2.6 out of 5, trailed only by India (2.4), Russia (2.1) and China (1.8) in the first-time study. Ireland ranked first […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — After setting record-high imports this year, the Philippines is seen to buy less rice in the world market next year amid excessive supply coupled with improvements in the local production. In the latest report of the United States Department of Agriculture-Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS), the Philippines is expected to import 2.4 million […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S non-oil domestic exports (NODX) continued to fall in September, mainly due to lower exports to Europe, the United States and Japan, but showed a slight improvement over August and the five months of double-digit declines before that. NODX fell 8.1 per cent year on year last month, following a 9 per cent drop in […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Vietnam’s yarn export turnover only rose slightly by 3% year-on-year compared to the growth rate of 14% in the same period last year. China and the US are still the two main import/export markets of Vietnam’s textile and apparel industry, so the impacts from the trade war between these two countries continue to […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s well-diversified export base will help the economy maintain a relatively strong growth despite global trade tensions, Fitch Ratings says. It said yesterday global trade tensions were weighing on growth, particularly as Malaysia was a small, open economy integrated into Asian supply chains. “However, fiscal risks in 2020 from slower-than-forecast growth are limited […]
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