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Philippines: Unemployment rate down in September, but job quality worsens as inflation stings

MANILA, Philippines — The jobless rate declined in September despite firms and businesses contending with piping hot inflation that suppressed the public’s purchasing power. A survey of 10,959 families nationwide showed there were 2.5 million Filipinos who were either unemployed or out of business in September, lower than the 2.68 million jobless people in August, […]

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Chinese-invested economic zone integrating Cambodia’s Sihanoukville into regional, global supply chains: official

The Chinese-invested Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) in Cambodia has been transforming the southwestern coastal province of Preah Sihanouk into a link in the regional and global supply chains, a local official said on Monday. Long Dimanche, the province’s deputy governor, said the SSEZ is the biggest industrial zone in terms of size in the […]

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Malaysia’s IPI grows 10.8% in September

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s industrial production index (IPI) expanded 10.8 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in September 2022 compared with a growth of 13.5 per cent y-o-y in August 2022, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM). In a statement today, the department said the sectors that contributed to September’s increase was mining (+15.0 per cent), manufacturing […]

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Vietnam: Rumors of sharp consumer price rises denied

The head of the Price Statistics Department at the General Statistics Office (GSO), Nguyen Thu Oanh, has rejected rumors that consumer prices have soared 10-20% this year. According to the report, the CPI in the year through October picked up 2.89% over the same period last year on average due to increases in fuel prices.  Gasoline prices […]

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