More than one month into mandatory use of a B20 biodiesel blend, the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has admitted that several issues are hampering the effort. The ministry’s energy conservation and renewable energy director general, Rida Mulyana, underlined two main issues — logistics and transportations – particularly because state-owned oil and gas holding company Pertamina demanded […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – The ministry has been requested to downsize its wholly-owned companies to 17 by end-2020. Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defense will step up the equitization and divestment drive of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) under its umbrella to downsize its SOE portfolio to 17 by 2020 from 88, an official has said. The ministry will sell […]
Read MoreTHE sluggish rental market for both private and HDB properties is showing no signs of improving, going by flash data from real estate portal SRX on Wednesday. Rents for condominiums and private apartments in September dipped by 0.4 per cent from the previous month. They were unchanged in August, from an earlier SRX estimate of […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: The government will not be able to do away with the highway toll collection due to the country’s current financial position, says Works Minister Baru Bian. Hence, it is misleading to assume that the new government will do away with toll collection in two to three months, he said on Tuesday. “We will […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ trade deficit persisted in August, the government’s statistics agency reported Wednesday, after exports’ sluggish performance failed to match imports’ accelerated growth pace. The country’s trade deficit stayed above $3 billion for five consecutive months to reach $3.513 billion in August from $3.546 billion shortfall posted in July. In August 2017, the trade gap was at […]
Read MoreThe Commerce Ministry is set to blacklist 10 coconut importers who failed to provide clarity on their import data as part of efforts to deal with the domestic coconut price slump and help protect domestic growers. Adul Chotinisakorn, director-general of the Foreign Trade Department, said officials recently launched an inspection of 29 coconut processing factories nationwide […]
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