ASEAN continues to work towards its renewable energy target of 23 per cent by 2025, with the Asean Centre for Energy (ACE) signing agreements for research in areas such as biofuels, said ACE in a press release following the 37th annual Asean Minister on Energy Meeting (AMEM) in September. South-east Asia’s energy demand is expected […]
Read MoreThailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines are competing fiercely for a larger share of China’s fruit market. China imported fruits worth US$7.62 billion, up 36 per cent from the previous year, according to statistics from the Customs Department of China in 2018. The total imported quantity exceeded 5.52 million tonnes and was a 25 per cent […]
Read MoreECONOMIC growth in South-east Asia is forecast to ease to 4.5 per cent this year from 5.1 per cent in 2018, before stabilising at the same rate of 4.5 per cent in 2020, British advisory firm Oxford Economics said on Thursday. The slowdown comes amid a fresh round of tariffs and trade restrictions by the […]
Read MoreTOKYO: China, Japan and South Korea have set ambitious targets to put millions of hydrogen-powered vehicles on their roads by the end of the next decade at a cost of billions of dollars. But to date, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) have been upstaged by electric vehicles, which are increasingly becoming a mainstream option due […]
Read MoreOnline retailer eBay has launched the “eBay SeaPass” shipping platform to support eBay sellers in Asean by simplifying retail order fulfilment and providing automated shipping. In Thailand, eBay said it would enable the faster handling of paid orders, saving eBay sellers time and money through an easy-to-use system that is available to them at no […]
Read MoreIndia plans to propose the imposition of “safeguard tax” on imports to better protect domestic industries as part of the long-awaited Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which is supposed to reduce trade barriers. A government source cited a news report in India that says New Delhi wants the 16 RCEP members to adopt the proposal […]
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