SINGAPORE experienced a steep decline in real estate investment volume in the first quarter this year, with transactions tumbling 78 per cent year on year (y-o-y) to US$432 million, according to Real Capital Analytics’ (RCA) Asia-Pacific (Apac) Capital Trends report. The steep drop was partly due to the comparison with a record year in 2019, […]
Read MoreGoods transportation at a Battambang checkpoint shared border with Thailand’s Sakeo province has now resumed operations. In the light of COVID-19 the border closed, but it has resumed in the last two weeks with time restriction, according to Battambang provincial governor Nguon Ratanak. Although the border has just reopened, Ratanak said restriction will remain in […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is expected to become the world’s largest rice importer until 2021as local production will continue to decline. In the latest report of the United States Department of Agriculture-Foreign Agricultural Service, imports will slightly decline this year but will pick up again next year. Rice imports are seen to fall by […]
Read MoreThe application period for the next chief at the Bank of Thailand is set to open later this month to appoint a successor to Veerathai Santiprabhob, whose tenure is due to end in September. The process requires the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) to form a selection committee for the new central bank head chaired by […]
Read MoreSingapore rose to become the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam in the first four months of 2020 with 5.07 billion USD, accounting for 41 percent of the total. It was followed by Thailand and Japan, with 1.46 billion USD and 1.16 billion USD, respectively, according the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA). […]
Read MoreAuthorities are struggling to enforce the use of Myanmar language on the labels of all products on the local market due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior Consumer Affairs official said. U Zayar Swe, deputy director of the Consumer Affairs Department, said his agency has yet to conduct any inspections of manufactures for compliance with the […]
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