More than 1,000 new factories, mostly in the food industry, have been established over the past six months with investment worth 56.3 billion baht, a sign the domestic economy is slowly recovering, says the Department of Industrial Works. The number of business closures stood at 361 during the first half of fiscal 2022, down 8.38%, […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR (April 26): Malaysia and Indonesia are leading the recovery of domestic travel demand in Southeast Asia (SEA), reaching 100 per cent growth in March compared with the same level in 2019, while countries such as Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam are quickly following the lead. Google Asia Pacific travel lead Hermione Joye said staycations and […]
Read MoreThe unemployment situation in the first quarter is likely to improve boosted by healthy export growth and a gradual recovery of the tourism sector, according to the Employers’ Confederation of Thai Trade and Industry. Tanit Sorat, the confederation’s vice-chairman, said the latest statistics show that the number of employees who registered for the Social Security […]
Read MoreScores of Malaysian companies will attend the SME trade mission and business forum to be held this week in Phnom Penh to seek investment opportunities in Cambodia. The SME trade mission is organised by the SME Association of Malaysia, co-organised by the Malaysian Business Chamber of Cambodia (MBCC) and supported by the Royal Embassy of […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S factory output eased to 3.4 per cent year on year in March, as the steep fall in biomedical manufacturing could not offset the aerospace segment’s production surge, according to data from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) on Tuesday (Apr 26). Excluding the typically volatile biomedical manufacturing sector, industrial output for the same period […]
Read MoreINDONESIA is prepared to widen a palm oil export ban, which currently only applies to refined palm olein, if local shortages of derivative products used in cooking oil occur, according to details of an official meeting with companies. The world’s biggest palm oil exporter plans from Thursday to stop shipments of refined, bleached and deodorised […]
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