The Hanoitimes – HSBC expected the SBV to react proactively, hiking its policy rate moderately by 25 basic points in the third quarter this year to curb inflationary pressures and inflation expectations. Vietnam’s headline inflation rose 4.5% year-on-year in July, remaining well-above the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s 4% target, which is expected to remain above […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures rose over 1 percent on Wednesday evening, a third straight day of gains, on the back of technical buying and as the market turned bullish on forecasts that the world’s top palm importer India is likely to receive below-normal monsoon rains in 2018. The benchmark palm oil contract for October delivery on the Bursa […]
Read MoreTEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Around 35 percent of Indonesian men have been actively shopping online, they do the transactions twice as much as women. Country Brand Manager of Shopee, Rezki Yanuar said that one of the reasons is the price of goods that are purchased by men are relatively expensive. “The average transaction for men is twice than women’s. Men […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Inflation for the country’s bottom 30 percent income households has risen to 6.5 percent in the second quarter of the year because of faster increases in the prices of food, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. This was higher than the 5.3 percent annual growth in the first quarter of the year […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Stabilizing foreign exchange and inflation rates is considered as key objectives of the government at the moment. The Vietnamese government will make no changes to the monetary policy that has been in place since the beginning of the year until considerable global impact is felt, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asserted at the […]
Read MoreGovernment efforts to prevent illegal border trade have not been effective or sufficient and counterfeit goods are still being smuggled into the country. In fact, things are worse than before. “Illegal trade can’t be controlled. Illegal trade is worse than before even though measures were taken to reopen some of the border gates by the […]
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