PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will welcome any investments from abroad – especially from Japan – that will raise the skills and wages of Malaysian workers. Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said such investments would improve the competitiveness of the Malaysian economy through the application of new technology. Lim Guan Eng Speaking at the shareholders’ agreement signing ceremony […]
Read MoreVIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The management of the Lao currency is being moderately implemented across the country and it is stable as the rate of inflation stands at 1.5 per cent. However, the National Assembly (NA) has given the government the task of bringing the currency exchange rate below 5 percent by the end of this […]
Read MoreSEJONG, June 12 (Yonhap) — The head of South Korea’s customs agency discussed signing customs deals meant to facilitate bilateral trade with his counterparts from Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam, the agency said Wednesday. Kim Yung-moon, commissioner of the Korea Customs Service, held separate bilateral meetings with the three counterparts on the sidelines of an […]
Read MoreBank Indonesia will likely join other central banks in easing monetary policy to counter a global economic slowdown, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said. “When the situation has now changed, especially in advanced countries, including about the direction of monetary policies, and there is a signal of the global economy weakening, I think Bank Indonesia will […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – The report on Provincial Open Budget Index (POBI) was first made public in 2017 to assess the transparency level in the management of provincial budget nationwide. Less than half of Vietnam’s 63 provinces and cities failed to obtain the average score of 50 in the Provincial Open Budget Index (POBI), which measures the […]
Read MoreBRUNEI Darussalam’s total trade in March 2019 increased by 12.7 per cent to BND1,290.2 million compared to March 2018. Total exports increased year on year by 16.7 per cent to BND880.2 million. The increase was supported mainly by increase in the export of Crude Oil by 25 per cent and the export of Liquefied Natural Gas […]
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