TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Indonesian Government has agreed to extend Freeport Indonesia’s permit to operate its business parallel to building a smelter. The agreement was reached in a meeting at the Finance Ministry on Tuesday, July 4. According to the deputy of mining, strategic industries, and media at the State Owned Entreprises (SOE) Ministry, Fajar Harry Sampurno, the meeting […]
Read MoreHANOI — Vietnam was recently listed among the world’s 20 fastest growing travel destinations by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation. The Southeast Asian country ranked seventh with a growth rate of 24.6 per cent based on the number of foreign tourist arrivals in 2016. West African nation Sierra Leone topped the list, seeing a […]
Read MoreConsumer prices, which gauge the country’s inflation rate, dipped for a second straight month in June, mainly due to lower oil prices and baht gains. The drop led the government to cut its inflation forecast yesterday to 0.7-1.7% this year from a previous projection of 1.5 -2.2%. According to the Commerce Ministry’s data, the consumer price […]
Read MoreThe eighth Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) meeting was held in Thailand on June 29-30 and has decided to seek parliamentary approval in order to ask Thailand for a soft loan to fund the two-lane project. If approved, a task force will be formed to assess and review the development and issues caused by Italian-Thai Development […]
Read MoreThe Cambodian embassy in Thailand has called on illegal workers not to leave Thailand as officials attempt to negotiate a deal to allow migrants to stay in their jobs. A crackdown on illegal workers in Thailand has frightened many migrants, with thousands returning home following the announcement of the new executive decree on foreign labourers last week. According to a letter […]
Read MoreJune PMI slips to 53.9 from 54.3 in May, 55.5 a yr earlier PHILIPPINE manufacturing expanded further in June but at a slower pace than in May and in June last year as output and new orders lost momentum amid a fall in backlogs, results of a survey sponsored by Nikkei and produced by IHS […]
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