HCM CITY — The number of companies involved in foreign trade has increased, indicating simplified customs procedures, a senior official in the Customs General Department said. “In 2016 import-export companies increased by 15.4 per cent from the year before to 73,170,” Mr. Nguyen Cong Binh, deputy head of the department, was quoted as saying in […]
Read MoreMANILA – The Philippine economy grew by 6.6% from a year earlier in the fourth quarter of last year, bringing the full-year economic growth of the Southeast Asian country to 6.8%, authorities said on Thursday. The expansion of the country’s gross domestic product — the measure of the country’s economic output within its boundaries — […]
Read MoreLaotians have spent less money on goods in Thailand after Vientiane imposed a 10% value-added tax late last year, a Lao customs official said on Thursday. Soutchai Inthavong, deputy chief of the customs international checkpoint at the Friendship Bridge, said the number of Laotians crossing the bridge to Thailand remained unchanged after the Lao government […]
Read MoreUS President Donald Trump’s executive order pulling the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has allayed Cambodia’s fears that it would lose its competitiveness in the garment industry, analysts said yesterday. “The potential threats to the Cambodian garment industry under the TPP will be abated as the US is the second-largest destination of garment […]
Read MoreSri Lanka has expressed interest in a formal arrangement to import 50,000 tonnes of rice from Myanmar, according to Ministry of Commerce assistant secretary U Khin Maung Lwin. The Sri Lankan ambassador to Myanmar, KWND Karunaratne, made the offer on January 23 during a visit to the Union Minister for Commerce U Than Myint, the […]
Read MoreHANOI — The Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM) 2017 will take place from April 6-9 at the International Exhibition Centre in Hanoi, the Vietnam Tourism Association announced on Monday. Themed “Hanoi– Vietnamese tourism’s destination,” VITM 2017 is expected to feature 600 enterprises, tourism management and promotion agencies from 43 provinces and cities and 25 countries […]
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