The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which is the new acronym for the earlier botched Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), might pose serious problems for Asean countries that are signing up to this major trade and investment deal. Among the countries concerned, Malaysian policy-makers are having second thoughts on the country’s participation in the […]
Read MoreThe Kingdom’s total exports for this year increased more than 23 per cent from last year to $10.36 billion, led by garments and agro-products, according to the Ministry of Commerce’s annual report. The report shows that during the period from December last year to November this year, the Kingdom exported $10.36 billion of goods, an […]
Read MoreFROM its towering “supertree” vertical gardens to a Formula 1 night race, Singapore is known for many attractions. Underground space, however, is not one of them. But that may soon change, as the city-state prepares to unveil an Underground Master Plan in 2019. With some 5.6 million people in an area three-fifths the size of […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – With reforms to further facilitate foreign investment now underway and with the ratification of the CPTPP, inbound investment in particular is expected to accelerate through 2019-2021. Merger and acquisition (M&A) value in Vietnam is forecast to reach US$4.1 billion in 2019, given the government’s reforms to further facilitate foreign investment and the ratification […]
Read MoreInaccessibility to financial sources at a reasonable price for some small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and search-for-yield behaviours by savings and credit cooperatives are areas that the Bank of Thailand is keen to see improvements to reinforce financial stability. Some SMEs cannot access bank loans at a fair rate because they have not adapted to digitalisation, […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s economy is likely to grow in February to April 2019, says the Department of Statistics. In the “Malaysian Economic Indicators: Leading, Coincident and Lagging Indexes for October 2018” report released yesterday, chief statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the annual change of the Leading Index (LI) showed an improvement to […]
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