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Cambodia: New MoU will make loans easier to decide and repay

Agriculture Rural Development Bank (ARDB) together with Wing (Cambodia) Ltd Specialized Bank and Cambodia Investors Corp (CIC) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to facilitate loan repayments, encourage the use of digital banking and to provide information to borrowers to guarantee the credit deal. The MoU between ARDB and Wing is to allow the ARDB’s […]

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Indonesia: ‘We are dying’: No new shopping center openings, leasing grinds to halt

The retail property market recorded no new openings of shopping centers or leasing activities in April and May in Jakarta as shopping malls across the country temporarily closed to prevent further spread of COVID-19. Data compiled by the Indonesian Shopping Center Association (APPBI) show that 190 shopping malls across the country temporarily closed. Stefanus Ridwan, the chairman of the association, said Tuesday that […]

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Cambodia: Hospitality industry shows signs of despair

The Cambodia Hotel Association (CHA) president claims that the hotel industry is seeking far and wide to secure financial assistance because of the Coronavirus pandemic, which hit hard the entire tourism sector. Clais Chenda president of CHA told Khmer Times that COVID-19 has severely affected the hotel industry, the tourism sector’s biggest investment. Chenda, who also runs […]

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Thailand: MPI dips to lowest since 2011

Thailand’s manufacturing production index (MPI) in April stood at 79.04, the lowest level since November 2011. The drop came mainly from the lockdown and curfew, the drought, private sector wariness of the Covid-19 pandemic continuing and weak confidence in the economy. Ittichai Yotsri, deputy director-general of the Office of Industrial Economics (OIE), said the global and […]

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