KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has set up a panel to fast-track investments as it seeks to woo businesses affected by the China trade dispute and it approved more than $500 million in new proposals this month, a government minister said. An increasing number of US and Chinese businesses have been moving manufacturing out of China to […]
Read MoreThe European Association for Business and Commerce (EABC) has proposed an immediate end to the TM30 24-hour reporting and TM28 change-of-permanent-address immigration forms. The EABC represents the interests of the European business community in the kingdom. It submitted the request to Thai officials including Kobsak Pootrakool, deputy secretary-general for political affairs to the prime minister; […]
Read MoreAsia’s oil-reliant economies could take a hit if crude prices remain higher, with Singapore facing potential fallout in the form of inflation, analysts said on Monday. They were responding to the surge in oil prices after drone strikes on Saudi Arabian production facilities last weekend, which took out about five per cent of the global […]
Read MoreBrunei Darussalam’s Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) was at 89.2 in Q2 2019, a decrease of 1.6 per cent year-on-year compared to Q2 2018 and a decrease of 2.5 per-cent quarter-on-quarter compared to Q1 2019. Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam (AMBD) published the RPPI for the second quarter of 2019 yesterday. According to a press release, […]
Read MoreThe government has accumulated a Bt348.97 billion fiscal balance deficit for the first 11 months of the fiscal year 2019 (October 2018 to August 2019), the Fiscal Policy Office and Ministry of Finance report. The government has received Bt2.309 trillion in revenue for the 11-month period, Lavaron Sangsnit, the director–general of the Fiscal Policy Office […]
Read MoreIndonesia’s trade data announced on Monday paints a bleak outlook for the country’s economy as it hints at cooling domestic consumption and stagnating investment, the two key contributors to its gross domestic product (GDP). The country’s exports fell almost 10 per cent year-on-year to $14.28 billion last month while imports plunged deeper by 15.6 per […]
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