WorldBridge Secure Logistics (WSL) has rebranded as Brink’s WorldBridge Secure Logistics (BWSL) with the full fledged entry into Cambodia of Brink’s, the world’s largest secure logistics company. The rebrand was announced on Saturday at the Sofitel Hotel in Phnom Penh. Sear Rithy, founder and chairman of WorldBridge Group, was joined at the ceremony by United […]
Read MoreThe stupendous surge of retail investors across the globe has prompted digitally-led investment applications and online platforms to develop, as they look to automatically optimise their passive indexed portfolios. Newly-minted domestic investment app Infina successfully last week closed an oversubscribed $2 million seed round with the participation of international investors including Saison Capital, Venturra Discovery, […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – Singapore kept its position as the world’s top shipping hub on the 2021 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development (ISCD) Index for the eighth consecutive year. The Republic was followed by London, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Dubai. The top five rankings were unchanged from the previous year, despite the pandemic-induced drop in global trade and […]
Read MoreInvestment in foreign stocks has risen exponentially as Thais rush to buy high-growth stocks in global markets after recently being allowed to do so through local brokers, while Thai stocks remain volatile during the pandemic. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), revenues from global stock trading through local brokers for the first half […]
Read MoreJAKARTA (THE STAR/BLOOMBERG) – Indonesia has lost its prized upper middle-income status after only a year, as Southeast Asia’s largest coronavirus outbreak reverses gains in poverty and employment. The World Bank downgraded Indonesia to lower-middle income status as of July 1, with a gross national income per capita of USD3, 870. The country had graduated […]
Read MoreThe baht opened at 32.50 to the US dollar on Monday, strengthening from Friday’s closing rate of 32.60. The Thai currency is likely to move between 32.45 and 32.60 during the day and between 32.40 and 32.90 this week, Krungthai Bank market strategist Poon Panichpibool said. Poon said that the baht would weaken, as foreign […]
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