OPTIMISM seems to be on the rise for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with expectations of strong sales and profit performance in the next two quarters. The Singapore Business Federation-DP Info (SBF-DP) SME Index ticked up from 51.2 to 51.8 in its latest poll, signalling an improved outlook for Q2 and Q3 2018. A score […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Foreign investors disbursed US$3.88 billion in Vietnam in the first quarter of the year, up 7.2 percent year-on-year, reports from the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) showed. However, the first three months saw a 25 percent decline of registered FDI capital in the country with only $5.8 billion. Manufacturing […]
Read MoreTEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati had just stated debt as a sexy issue because when she posted an explanation of the state debt in her official account on the Facebook platform, the topic attracted 100,000 public response via the comment sections. “Debt is a sexy issue. I have posted about it on Facebook and less than […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Inflation likely spiked to between 4.9 percent and five percent this month, reflecting the continuing market adjustment to the first package of the tax reform program and a confluence of other factors such as power rate hikes and fluctuating oil pump prices, an economist said yesterday. Ateneo de Manila professor Alvin Ang […]
Read MoreIndonesian low-cost carrier Lion Air will soon commence direct flights to Cambodia in order to boost business, trade and investment between the two Asean member states. During a meeting with the between both countries, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan told Prime Minister Hun Sen that Cambodia has been developing stronger economic […]
Read More(KPL) Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith ordered cabinet members, Vientiane Mayor, provincial governors and relevant sectors to continue implementing in a stringent manner Prime Minister’s Order No 15, attaching attention to sustainable protection of forest resources, not allowing log exports, monitoring and punishing violators of the order. At the first meeting between the government and provincial […]
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