SINGAPORE: A big drag on Singapore’s growth in recent years, the embattled offshore and marine industry, has broken a three-year losing streak. Yet industry executives aren’t betting on a return to the glory days anytime soon. The industry, along with a top-class finance sector, has been a key pillar of Singapore’s economic transformation into a […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Foreign investors have been accelerating the share acquisition or capital contribution in Vietnamese firms, helping the country’s M&A heat up and improve the firms’ transparency significantly. The Vietnamese market has recently seen a notably deal, in which Frasers Property acquired a 75 percent stake in Ho Chi Minh City-based Phu An Dien Real […]
Read MoreThe Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has issued its standard operating procedure (SOP) for retail and wholesale business registrations as well as a list of products allowable for trade. The updates were announced on July 26, more than two months after notification (25/2018) was officially released, allowing retail and wholesale services run by wholly-owned foreign companies […]
Read MoreUS PRESIDENT Donald Trump may well be the best thing that’s happened to Southeast Asia’s humble electronics industry in quite a while. Relatively small, and frankly not as sexy as their North Asia cousins, makers of components and devices with factories dotted around the region may get some time in the spotlight thanks to the […]
Read MoreTHE majority of Singapore-listed companies have at least one woman on their boards for the first time, with the largest companies leading the improvements in board gender diversity, according to latest data from the Diversity Action Committee (DAC). The proportion of all-male boards slipped to 49 per cent as at end-June 2018, the first time […]
Read MoreTHAI CONSUMERS are looking for ways to fulfil their desires to better themselves, according to a new survey conducted by Mintel, the global market intelligence agency. Its latest findings revealed that as many as four in five (79 per cent) Thai consumers living in the cities would like to have a healthier diet, just over […]
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