Vietnam: Bà R?a-V?ng Tàu promotes investment in four areas Thursday, 4 August 2016 – The southern Bà R?a-V?ng Tàu Province will focus its investment on hi-tech industry and agriculture, port logistics and high-quality tourism. Hi-tech industrial projects will prioritise energy-saving and eco-friendly products of high added value and competitiveness, while those in the port logistics […]
Read MoreIndonesia: SMEs prime driver of RI economic growth: Minister Tue, August 2 2016 – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati underlined on Tuesday the need to strengthen engagement and cooperation between the government and business players to stimulate the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia. Stronger engagement and cooperation was one of three […]
Read MoreVietnam: City eyes $9,800 per capita income by 2020 Thursday, 4 August 2016 – HCM City’s leaders and newly-elected lawmakers yesterday began a three-day session of the People’s Council to discuss socio-economic targets amid many complaints about extended flooding, traffic jams and pollution. The country’s biggest city has set itself a per capita income target […]
Read MoreIndonesia: Tourism Indonesia: Foreign Tourist Arrivals Rise 5.9% in H1-2016 Tue, 02 August 2016 – The number of foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia reached 5.29 million in the first half of 2016, up 5.9 percent (y/y) from the same period one year earlier. This implies that only 44 percent of the government’s full-year target has […]
Read MoreVietnam: Vi?t Nam to develop competition policy Thursday, 4 August 2016 – Vi?t Nam is developing a comprehensive competition policy scheme in an effort to refuel reform and accelerate growth towards a market-based economy. Nguy?n ?ình Cung, Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) said at a seminar in Hà N?i yesterday that […]
Read MoreIndonesia: July’s inflation lowest in five years: BPS Mon, August 1 2016 – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has recorded an inflation rate of 0.69 percent month-on-month (mom) for July, slightly below Bank Indonesia?s (BI) forecast of 0.74 percent. It is the lowest July inflation rate in the last five years, the agency said in […]
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