INDONESIA has a raft of stimulus options available to bolster the South-east Asia’s biggest economy if global conditions worsen, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said. The government is prepared to boost spending and “reactivate” measures used during the global financial crisis if domestic growth needs a boost, Ms Indrawati said on Tuesday in an interview […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – This is the first corporate governance code developed and released specifically for the Vietnamese market, in compliance with current legislation. Launched in mid-August 2019, the “Vietnam Corporate Governance Code of Best Practices” is expected to raise the quality of corporate governance in Vietnamese public and listed companies, according to PwC. The “Vietnam Corporate […]
Read MoreThailand’s Ministry of Commerce last week announced a ban on field corn imports coming through Ban Khao Din, in the border with Cambodia. The ban comes into effect on Saturday. The move was announced after a ministry meeting last week, according to Thai media reports. Ban Khao Din is an international border gate in Thailand’s […]
Read MoreNew export markets have been found rice and pulses produced in Myanmar, said U Aung Htoo, Deputy Minister of Commerce. “We are now exporting rice to the Philippines, Mozambique and China and mung beans to China and Vietnam,” he told Parliament on Monday. The ministry has encouraged farmers to harvest from high-quality seeds to meet […]
Read MoreAs the US-China trade war continues to brew, construction activity in Asia is at risk of becoming collateral damage, economists at Oxford Economics say. They noted, however, that the impact on the sector across countries will vary widely with some areas receiving a boost, as manufacturing activity is diverted from China. In Vietnam and Indonesia, […]
Read MoreEven as the US-China trade war intensifies, analysts at Fitch Solutions Macro Research said that the rare earth mining, textiles manufacturing and information and communications technology (ICT) manufacturing sectors of the Vietnamese economy will benefit from the changes brought on by the US-China trade war, namely the supply chain shift out of China. Rare earth […]
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