Twenty-one companies will relocate their factories from Karawang, West Java to other regions on account of next year’s minimum wage increase, an official has said. “According to our records, between 2017 and 2018, 21 companies relocated their factories because they could not afford to pay wages,” said Karawang Manpower and Transmigration Agency head Ahmad Suroto said […]
Read MoreCambodia’s rice export fell 13.20 percent in the first ten months of 2018 due to two factors, the European Union stopped buying Cambodian rice and the 300,000 tonnes quota to China was not fulfilled, said Kann Kunthy, vice president and managing director of Amru Rice Cambodia. Mr Kunthy was commenting on a report from the […]
Read MoreVietnam news/ANN: Cuba was among the top five countries attracting Vietnamese investment in the first 10 months of this year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency. The agency, under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, reported that Vietnamese firms registered investments of $20 million in Cuba in the first 10 months of this year. Although the […]
Read MoreTHE NATION (THAILAND)/ANN: AS MORE people in Myanmar become aware of the benefits brought by technology, Flymya.com – the nation’s leading one-stop travel portal owned by local investment firm BOD Tech Co Ltd – is eyeing bigger growth in the years ahead, Mike Than Tun Win, the firm’s founder and chief executive, said. “It has been […]
Read MoreState-owned oil and gas holding company Pertamina has made agreements with nine private oil companies to buy their export quotas of crude oil production to help reduce crude oil imports. “I just received a report from Pertamina about its agreements with nine private oil companies,” Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry Oil and Gas Director General […]
Read MoreAsean members have agreed on three trade pacts on Monday during the 33rd Asean Summit in Singapore, including the landmark Asean Agreement on E-Commerce. Deputy Commerce Minister Chutima Bunyapraphasara, who attended the summit, said this is the bloc’s first deal to facilitate cross-border e-commerce transactions after nine rounds of negotiations. The pact aims to improve […]
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