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Thailand: Department of Industrial Works mulls e-waste import ban

The Department of Industrial Works (DIW) is considering banning recycling factories from importing certain types of e-waste that have negative impacts on the environment and communities.  DIW and police last week carried out an inspection of 148 electronic waste recycling factories nationwide, including seven factories licensed to import electronic waste from abroad after several of them […]

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Thailand: EEC to host surprising bedfellows

Up to 40 Chinese executives will take part in Sino-Japanese Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) development efforts as they strive to strengthen bilateral cooperation in third-party markets.  A new wave of Chinese business representatives is flocking to Thailand to explore investment opportunities, emphasising the remarkable development of economic cooperation between Thailand and China, now the No.1 trade […]

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Vietnam: CPI in May hits six year record high

The Hanoitimes – Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) in May saw the sharpest increase in the past six years, jumping by 0.55% against the previous month, the General Statistics Office reported. CPI, a gauge of inflation, marked a 3.86% rise year-on-year. The index in the first five months of 2018 expanded 3.01% against the government’s 4 […]

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Myanmar, China to ink bilateral agreement on border trade

Myanmar and the government of Yunnan, China will sign a bilateral trade agreement when U Than Myint, Minister of Commerce, visits the Kunming Trade Fair next month. The agreement, once signed, will facilitate the legal export of Myanmar produced agriculture products such as rice and sugar across the Myanmar- China border, said U Khin Maung Lwin, […]

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Thailand – CBRE: Office rents shot up 3.1% in Q1

Grade A central business district (CBD) office rents rose by 3.1% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2018, a trend that is set to continue for the rest of the year, says property advisory CBRE Research.  The average rent for Grade A CBD buildings was just under 1,000 baht per square metre per month. A record […]

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