The Hanoitimes – Rapid urbanization and rising middle class are among the biggest drivers for the growth of Vietnam’s logistics sector. Logistics in Vietnam and Asia-Pacific reveal key trends that will continue to drive the growth of investment into the sector despite persistent short-term Covid-19 headwind. Indeed, logistics rents were largely flat in the second quarter […]
Read MoreThe Digital Economy Promotion Agency (Depa) has vowed to increase the GDP of the country’s digital industry by 1% or 6 billion baht next year through various support programmes. The commitment was spelled out by Depa president and chief executive Nuttapon Nimmanphatcharin in a recent press briefing about the agency’s 2021 vision. He said the […]
Read MoreDespite a surge of new infections in Samut Sakhon, food processors and seafood restaurants remain upbeat about food-related business prospects. Visit Limlurcha, president of Thai Food Processors Association, said Thai food processors are not yet concerned about the surge in new infections, adding other food-producing countries have been facing more serious outbreaks than Thailand. “[Thailand] […]
Read MoreThe annual rate of inflation in Myanmar, based on the Consumer Price Index, fell to 6.43 per cent in August 2020, according to a report released by the Central Statistical Organization, under the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry. The US dollar against Kyat is relatively weak in August, with a fall of about five […]
Read MoreThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised concern over environmental protection – or the lack thereof – in the Job Creation Law, calling on the government to ensure sustainable growth. While the new omnibus law would ease restrictions that had been identified as obstacles to job-creating investment and higher productivity, which could boost growth and […]
Read MoreSET-listed event and marketing services firm Index Creative Village Plc expects as many as 100,000 employees in the sector to lose their jobs because of the pandemic and ongoing anti-government demonstrations. Kreingkrai Kanjanapokin, the company’s founder and chief executive, said the event business has been battered by the pandemic since the government’s lockdown measures on […]
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