The Commerce Ministry is scheduled to meet manufacturers, modern trade operators and department stores on Thursday to ask for cooperation on lowering prices of essential goods for consumers, with a focus on food and daily use products to reduce the cost of living for people hurt by the pandemic. Local diesel prices, which is a […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Sixty-two percent of Vietnamese respondents said that they would eat at home more often in the post-Covid-19 period. Vietnam is one of the top three Asian markets that follows the trend of eating at home more often after the end of the pandemic, according to the latest findings released on April 12 by […]
Read MoreThailand is maintaining exports of rubber products and processed rubber as global demand surges, particularly for rubber products relating to virus protection such as rubber gloves and synthetic rubber used to make such gloves. Auramon Supthaweethum, director-general of the Trade Negotiations Department, said Thailand’s outbound shipments of rubber products and processed rubber in the form […]
Read MoreLaos’ central bank (Bank of Laos) has issued a public notice (dated 1 April) debunking rumors of a plan to print LAK 500,000 notes. The Bank of Laos has announced that the LAK 500,000 note is a fabricated construct of malicious individuals who are trying to create confusion in society. As circulated on social media, […]
Read MoreIndonesia booked a US$743 million trade surplus in March as export and import activities contracted slightly amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) has announced. Southeast Asia’s largest economy recorded $14.09 billion in exports in March, a 0.2 percent decrease year-on-year (yoy), while total imports fell 0.75 percent yoy to $13.35 billion driven by decreased […]
Read MorePUTRAJAYA, April 14 ― The unemployment rate in February 2020 increased to 3.3 per cent compared to 3.2 per cent in January 2020, said Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin. In February 2020, the number of those unemployed was 525,200 people, a 2.6-per cent increase compared to the previous month. “The unemployment rate […]
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