MANILA, Philippines — Philippine economic growth likely picked up in the fourth quarter of last year after slumping in the third quarter due to higher oil and food prices, according to the economic research and analysis arm of Moody’s Corp. In a report, Katrina Ell, economist at Moody’s Analytics, said the Philippines’ gross domestic product […]
Read MoreA Central Java consumer organization has called on the government to lower tolls along the 938-kilometer trans-Java toll road, which began operating early on Monday. “We hope the tolls would be revised down to make them affordable for all users,” the chairman of the Central Java Consumer Protection and Supervision Institute, Ngargono, told The Jakarta Post in […]
Read MoreHCM CITY — To reach the targets for economic growth for the 2016 – 20 period, the southern province of Binh Duong will focus on eight major works this year to encourage new investment. Provincial authorities will urge site clearance and facilitate construction work to improve the investment climate and help the private sector to […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – A new firm based out of Singapore has set out to build and run clean energy projects across the region. CleanGrid Partners was unveiled on Tuesday (Jan 22) as a collaboration between Singapore‘s WEnergy Global, consultancy ICMG Partners and energy company Greenway Grid Global, which is backed by Japanese electricity giant Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco)’s Tepco […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: China will likely remain as Malaysia’s largest trading partner, looking at the current trend, said Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Ong Kian Ming. He said even with the spectre of the US-China trade war looming, MalaysiaChina trade continued to grow at a higher rate compared with other trading partners. In a statement […]
Read MoreMa Hla Hla Win, a recently laid-off factory worker from Rakhine State, is heavily in debt from having to send funds home to her family despite being jobless for six months. After her former employer, South Korean shoe factory MDM, closed last year, she was forced out of her room in Yangon. “I could no […]
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