The government is considering requiring all coal miners to turn the raw commodity into dimethylether (DME) as a substitute for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), as the country still imports 70 percent of its total LPG demand. Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan said on Thursday the coal gasification program would help reduce the country’s annual spending […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S real estate investment market has been ranked second in the Asia Pacific region in a real estate forecast jointly published by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). This is due to a large number of major office deals in the last 12 months, with domestic investors being the biggest buyers, ULI and […]
Read MoreKuala Lumpur: Lazada Group will begin selling houses on its online shopping platform soon and is planning its next shopping festival, 12.12, to boost sales. As it is, Lazada offers hundreds of different types of products on its platform and will add one of the biggest items in the form of houses to its list. […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – During the process of global economic integration and growing protectionism, the fierce competition and lack of support from the legal system have put pressure on Vietnamese enterprises in general, and micro enterprises and individual households in particular. Despite being the growth engine of the economy, micro-sized enterprises and individual households in Vietnam are […]
Read MoreThe Bank of Thailand is set to begin raising the policy interest rate once economic growth and inflation move within their targets because financial vulnerabilities have started to become more widespread, in part because of the prolonged low interest rate. “The Monetary Policy Committee [MPC] believes that should economic expansion continue and inflation move within its […]
Read MoreThe World Bank on Wednesday released its latest edition of Cambodia’s economic outlook, expecting that the Kingdom’s economy will grow higher this year compared to last year. The World Bank Cambodia Economic Update, a biannual report that provides up-to-date information on short- and medium-term macroeconomic developments, said Cambodia’s economic growth rate will reach 7.1 per […]
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