SINGAPORE exports opened the year on a strong note, with non-oil domestic exports (NODX) up by 17.6 per cent year on year in January. The latest trade print, which exceeded private-sector analysts’ forecast of 12.4 per cent, was mainly due to shipments of non-electronics such as ship structure, specialised machinery and petrochemicals, trade agency Enterprise […]
Read MoreTickets for travel on the Laos-China Railway will soon go on sale at the Vientiane Center – a shopping mall in the city centre – so that ticket sales are not limited to train stations, the Laos-China Railway Company Limited has said. The company, which operates the rail route, is also setting up an online […]
Read MoreCambodia has been witnessing a five-year decline in its economic freedom, further depressed by score decrease in terms of labour and trade freedom recording a 2.4-point overall loss of economic freedom since 2017 and remains mired in the “Mostly Unfree” category. Despite this, Royal Academy of Cambodia researcher Hong Vannak insisted that the ranking was […]
Read MoreThe government is being urged to pay more serious attention to speeding up the production sector’s restructuring to create new jobs and boost economic growth. Danucha Pichayanan, secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), said the government desperately needs to transform the production sector to more high-technology industry that can draw greater […]
Read MoreCOVID-19 support measures boosted gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021 by 0.8 percentage points and kept resident unemployment 4 percentage points lower than it would have been otherwise in the same year, a paper by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) has found. Singapore’s economy in 2021 grew 7.6 per cent year on year, while annual […]
Read MoreVietnam’s agricultural products are expected to succeed in choosy markets one day with combined efforts of overseas Vietnamese. “I always think about the current status of Vietnamese agricultural products in the international market, unlike Japanese, South Korean, and Israeli items, which are holding sway on supermarket shelves around the world.” Vietnam’s Minister of Agriculture and […]
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