KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s central bank kept its key rate unchanged at 3% on Thursday as policy makers were cautious amid a fragile ringgit currency and uncertainty around US policies under incoming president Donald Trump. All 11 economists polled by Reuters had expected BNM to hold its key rate steady, as a cut to follow […]
Read MoreA Chinese company has unveiled a plan to establish rice production on 4,000 hectares of leased farmland in Takeo province, local media reported yesterday. The company said it would consider building a large rice mill on the land to process up to 100,000 tonnes of rice a year for export to China. It also unveiled […]
Read MorePrime Minister Hun Sen attended a dinner with Swiss company executives in Zurich on Monday, where he invited investors to join the upcoming ASEAN World Economic Forum (WEF), which Cambodia will host for the first time in May. According to the premier’s Facebook page, Swiss investors responded that they are eager to invest in the […]
Read MoreHANOI – Brand building must be the core of small-and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) competition strategies going into the fourth industrial revolution, experts said at conference on Monday in Hanoi. Nguyen Van Nam, Director of the Institute for Brand and Competition Strategy, stressed that the fourth industrial revolution was rapidly changing the ways of doing business […]
Read MoreLAO PRIME Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has urged the business and public sectors in Laos and Thailand to open their hearts to investment and cooperation. He made the comment at the Lao-Thai Business Forum 2017 in Vientiane yesterday, organised by the Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with the Thai Embassy to Laos. […]
Read MoreINDONESIA saw its external debt continue to grow slowly in November as companies reduced foreign loans, Bank Indonesia (BI) data has shown. The data showed that Indonesia’s foreign debt grew by 3.6 per cent year on year to US$316 billion (Bt11.1 trillion) as of November last year, slower than the 6.5-per-cent year-on-year growth a month […]
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