Brunei Darussalam’s total trade is valued at BND1,302.8 million, an increase by 0.9 per cent from BND1,290.7 million during the same month last year. Meanwhile, for month-to-month changes, total trade for May 2020 increased by 13.9 per cent compared to April 2020. Exports increased by 20.5 per cent year-on-year to BND865.2 million compared to BND718.1 […]
Read MoreThe Ministry of Industry and Trade urges firms to control the quality of pepper exported to India and develop solutions to cope with policies affecting the export of pepper from Vietnam. The warning was issued after the ministry received notification from the Viet Nam Trade Office in India that the Association of Pepper Growers in […]
Read More[SINGAPORE] In the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak, Anthony Tan, the chief executive officer of South-east Asia’s biggest ride-hailing firm, recalls how he mistook the infection to be a China-only problem, similar to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003. As Covid-19 turned into a pandemic, sending markets into a tailspin, the 38-year-old sought […]
Read MoreSingapore’s Silk Air, which plies the Singapore-Phnom Penh-Singapore route, is expected to resume flight services in September. The airline has gotten approval to resume its flights and have also obtained approval for passengers travelling from Cambodia t transit in Singapore. This positive development comes in the wake of Cambodia banning flights from three destinations, Malaysia, […]
Read MorePETALING JAYA: All eyes are on Bank Negara’s gross domestic product (GDP) announcement today, with the odds stacked against the Malaysian economy for the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20). A double-digit economic contraction is highly expected in the April-June period, potentially worse than the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. A Bloomberg poll of 20 economists expects […]
Read MoreTour operators plan to speak with the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) about lifting restrictions on international commercial flights in the fourth quarter to allow the Safe and Sealed plan to take shape. Vichit Prakobgosol, president of the Association of Thai Travel Agents, said state agencies and operators must cooperate to drive the economy […]
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