KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 10): Malaysia’s wholesale and retail trade recorded a double-digit decline for two consecutive months with -14.7% to RM92.7 billion in July 2021, as Malaysia went into lockdown amid worsening Covid-19 cases, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said. Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the motor vehicles sub-sector suffered […]
Read MoreJapan Freight Railway Co has opened a representative office in Bangkok to scale up feasibility studies on business opportunities in Thailand. The company in the Japan Railway group said it obtained governmental approval on Sept 2 for the opening of the office, its first outside Japan, in Wattana district. It has two staff members, including […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Foreign investments in the country improved in the second quarter as the economy gradually reopened, but remain far behind local funders in the overall tally. Latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed foreign firms have slowly returned and are putting back much-needed capital to revive the economy. Approved foreign investments […]
Read MoreBusinesses all want to resume economic activities but experts say the reopening of the economy must be done with a specific roadmap and that haste will lead to failure. Tran Thanh Son, head of the HR Division of Song Ngoc Garment Company, keeps a notebook about the changes in his workforce at his company. After […]
Read MoreThe Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is preparing to issue additional measures to regulate large-cap stocks that have prices making unusual movements without any changes to the companies’ fundamentals. The SET rushed to take action after the share price of Delta Electronics (DELTA) rose more than 30% over the past couple of weeks without any […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob proposed that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China could consider a cross-border travel bubble, adding that it would be “vital for recovery” from the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recorded video message during the 18th China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) on Friday (Sep 10), he said both sides could […]
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