Kasikornbank has taken a 9.99% stake in Bank Maspion Indonesia for US$20 million to help strengthen its regional presence, the bank said on Monday. The price paid was 615 rupiah (S$0.06) per share, nearly 62% premium to the stock’s closing price on Friday. The shares traded over 2% higher on Monday. “Bank Maspion is the […]
Read MoreJAKARTA – Thousands of ATMs and electronic card payment machines in Indonesia went offline over the weekend, and it might take two more weeks before full service is restored, after an outage from a satellite belonging to state-controlled telcom giant PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom). Around 15,000 ground sites across Indonesia were affected by the problem […]
Read MoreHANOI – Vietnam received an estimated US$10.3 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in January-August, up 5.1% from the same period in 2016, the government said on Monday. Pledges of new FDI during the eight-month period rose an estimated 37.4% from a year earlier, to $13.45 billion, while additional funds to existing projects up […]
Read MoreThe next industrial revolution will introduce “smart factories” in which computers and robotics communicating wirelessly will handle physical processes with very little input from human operators, leaving few job opportunities for unskilled workers, executives of German industrial giants said during a briefing in Phnom Penh on Friday. The event, titled “Industry 4.0, the Next Level […]
Read MoreTEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia Deputy Governor Perry Warjiyo has predicted 5.3 to 5.7 percent economic growth in 2019. The increase in economic growth is expected thanks to the economic benefit of ongoing structural reforms. “In 2019, the impact of investment and infrastructure productivity will be very lively. Acceleration of growth will be faster,” he said yesterday, August 25. Perry said […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S factory output in July far exceeded expectations by surging 21 per cent year on year, led mainly by strong output from the electronics and precision engineering clusters. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output grew 24.9 per cent year on year, based on the latest data released by the Economic Development Board (EDB) on Friday. Private sector […]
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