Cambodia and other Southeast Asian nations have been receiving an increase in diverted investments because of the ongoing trade dispute between China and the United States, stated the National Bank of Cambodia in its latest report. The National Bank said the prolonged trade war has driven major challenges, which has seen a slowdown in international […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA) – Analysts remain conservative over Malaysia’s economic growth this year, as renewed Middle East geopolitical tensions have eclipsed the United States (US)-China trade deal optimism. RHB Investment Bank Bhd head of ASEAN economics research Peck Boon Soon said although the trade fiasco between the US and China has come to a halt […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – The cooperation framework would support mobilizing capital from the private sector and developing financial markets for infrastructure development, in turn helping Vietnam realize its priorities in the field in near future, said a Vietnamese vice finance minister. Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) on November 6 signed a cooperation framework to strengthen infrastructure finance […]
Read MoreASEAN’S consumer sector is set to have a soft start to 2020, with the outlook “dampened by macro headwinds and soft consumer sentiments”, according to a Jan 6 DBS Group Research report. The Philippines seems like the main outlier, with an expected rebound after consumption was hit in 2018-2019. Even though Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand […]
Read MoreThe government is looking to reform five issues in the current Labor Law that some say have deterred investment into the country through an omnibus bill on job creation. Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah said the bill was still being discussed at the Coordinating Economic Ministry and that the discussions were expected to conclude next week […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Consumer prices for the country’s poorest households rose at a faster pace in November 2019, with prices accelerating more in areas outside Metro Manila, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported yesterday. The growth in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the bottom 30 percent income households accelerated to 1.7 percent in November […]
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