DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh and Vietnam aim to raise their two-way annual trade to $2 billion over the next three years from nearly $1 billion, a business association official said on Monday. “We had a meeting with the visiting president of Vietnam today and focused on trade and investment,” Mohammad Shafiul Islam, president of Federation […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit opened higher against the US dollar today on renewed buying interest in the local note, as news on proposed US tariffs on aluminium and steel continued to linger over the market, said a dealer. At 9 am, the local note was quoted at 3.8990/9040 versus the greenback from Monday’s 3.9050/9080. OANDA […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Consumer prices picked up to a fresh three-year high in February under a rebased index, although at a slower pace than the figure calculated on the previous base year, the country’s statistics agency reported Tuesday. Headline inflation accelerated to 3.9 percent last month, faster than January’s 3.4 percent and was the highest […]
Read MoreTHE government aims to bring down its rate of late payment to business vendors to below 5 per cent on average, down from the current 6.5 per cent, said Senior Minister of State for Finance and Law Indranee Rajah in Parliament on Tuesday. She said that the government processes an average of two million payments […]
Read MoreA new study has found that increasing the cost of carbon credits is required to make tropical forest conservation a viable alternative to the spread of rubber plantations in Cambodia. Researchers in the new study argue that increasing payments for carbon credits is needed to create incentives for the protection of tropical forests in Southeast […]
Read MoreHANOI — After a long period of hesitation, the Vietnam National Coffee Corporation (Vinacafe) is being pushed towards equitisation once more by the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD). During a meeting on Monday at Vinacafe’s headquarter, Deputy Minister Ha Cong Tuan said he was not completely confident about the company’s latest restructuring plan. […]
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