Members of the National Assembly (NA) have called the government to increase state investment into critical sectors, catalyse improvements in the ease of doing business and pursue an increasingly transparent approach to public governance. Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and members of the nation’s central cabinet have been in attendance at the NA’s ongoing fourth ordinary […]
Read MoreSET-listed Thitikorn Plc (TK), Thailand’s leading hire purchase operator for motorcycles, has applied for a business licence to operate in Myanmar as it plans for regional expansion. Thitikorn plans to set up a new subsidiary company — Mingalaba Thitikorn Microfinance Co Ltd — with registered capital of 200 million kyat (4.9 million baht) once it […]
Read MoreThe industry body representing Cambodia’s garment sector met the deadline to submit a petition to the United States government yesterday asking it to extend the duty-free privileges of its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) scheme to include footwear, a move that could boost the industry’s competiveness by giving local manufacturers an advantage in the world’s […]
Read MoreHANOI – Telecommunications, IT and retail firms took the lead in terms of profitability last year on the list of Profit500 – the top 500 firms with the highest profits in Vietnam. The ranking, announced by Vietnam Report Company on Tuesday, revealed that the industries witnessed high profit growth despite accounting for a small number on the […]
Read MoreExports last month stumbled after four months of growth, as the upswing in the tech cycle – which had lasted far longer than expected – turned abruptly south. Non-oil domestic exports (Nodx) fell 1.1 per cent last month over September last year, wrong footing economists, who had forecast a rise of 12.7 per cent. This […]
Read MoreThai consumers are less sceptical of the content they see and more accepting of brands online, says market research agency Kantar TNS. “Connected consumers in Thailand are far more trusting than consumers in other countries in the region when it comes to their online activities,” Kantar TNS said in its latest Connected Life report. Kantar […]
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