Style, the region’s most comprehensive lifestyle trade show, is expected to draw more than 60,000 buyers and promote Thailand as a regional hub of the lifestyle industry. The fair comprises three events: the Bangkok International Fashion Fair and Bangkok International Leather Fair; the Bangkok International Gift Fair and Bangkok International Houseware Fair; and the Thailand […]
Read MoreHANOI — Creating encouraging polices and a clear legal system is crucial to attracting investment to creative start-ups, according to a Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) official. Dang Huy Dong, deputy minister of Planning and Investment, said that currently, guidelines on the establishment, management and funding and investment mechanisms for small and medium enterprises […]
Read MoreThe Ministry of Labour has expressed confidence that orders in the garment industry will increase next year due to improved working conditions and the introduction of a higher minimum wage for the sector. Minister of Labour Ith Samheng said foreign purchasers were satisfied with what Cambodia had achieved when it comes to worker welfare and […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S non-oil domestic exports (NODX) lost steam in September to post a 1.1 per cent decline after months of increase capped by a 16.7 per cent year-on-year surge in August. The drop was even more stark month on month, with the NODX plunging by a seasonally adjusted 11 per cent. The NODX was up 4.2 […]
Read MoreTEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Indonesia’s retail industry growth stood at 3.7 percent as of the end of the first half of 2017, said the Indonesia Retail Business Association (Aprindo) chairman Roy Nicholas Mandey. He predicts that the full-year figure will hit 7.5 to 8 percent. “It’s lower than the first half of 2016 that grew 9 percent,” Mandey told Tempo […]
Read MoreThe government will require 14.23 trillion kip in response to a budget deficit for 2017 after finding that the country will face a revenue shortfall again this year. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Mr Somdy Duangdy was speaking at the National Assembly’s Ordinary Session in Vientiane yesterday, describing the government’s plans to […]
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