Packaging business SCG announced its 2019 direction with key strategies to drive growth with more production bases in Asean and accelerating innovation and technology development to add value to products, services and the manufacturing process. Tanawong Areeratchakul, president of SCG, said: “In the past year, packaging had to cope with price fluctuations of raw materials […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), decreased 0.4% in February 2019 from a year earlier mainly due to the drop in transport component. In a statement Friday, the Statistics Department said the overall index for CPI fell 0.4% in February 2019 as compared to -0.7% in the previous month. […]
Read MoreAnt Financial Services Group, the operator of China’s biggest online payment platform under Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group, has called on the Thai government to offer more online services for value-added tax (VAT) refunds and immigration processing to facilitate international tourists, particularly Chinese. Simon Hu, president of Ant Financial, who met Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — As expected, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) decided anew yesterday to keep interest rates steady for the meantime as it recognized risks to economic growth due to the failure of Congress to pass the 2019 national budget. In a press conference, BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno said the Monetary Board kept the overnight reverse repurchase rate at 4.75 […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Productivity movement so far has been too small, scattered and only partially implemented, and did not reach the critical point to change the national mindset and produce visible results. The gap between productivity level of Vietnam and regional peers has widened, placing growing pressure for Vietnam to catch up with those in the […]
Read MoreThe next government would do well to continue planned infrastructure projects in order to boost housing demand, says Deputy Transport Minister Pailin Chuchottaworn. At least 60% of the population or 40 million people will live in urban areas if mass transit lines are developed in major provinces, Mr Pailin said on Thursday at the House & […]
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