The agriculture ministry is collaborating with private firms to help farmers facing a shortage of animals and labour purchase machinery on instalment. U Ko Ko Maung, director of the Agriculture Mechanisation Department under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, said that farmers are working to cope with a changing climate that is altering planting […]
Read MoreA rousing trade for the re-export of vehicle fuel to China has pushed up Myanmar import volumes, according to the minister of commerce. As of January 7, the volume spent on the import of motor fuel so far in the 2016-17 fiscal year was up US$90 million for diesel and $82 million for gasoline on […]
Read MoreHCM CITY — The number of companies involved in foreign trade has increased, indicating simplified customs procedures, a senior official in the Customs General Department said. “In 2016 import-export companies increased by 15.4 per cent from the year before to 73,170,” Mr. Nguyen Cong Binh, deputy head of the department, was quoted as saying in […]
Read MoreMANILA – The Philippine economy grew by 6.6% from a year earlier in the fourth quarter of last year, bringing the full-year economic growth of the Southeast Asian country to 6.8%, authorities said on Thursday. The expansion of the country’s gross domestic product — the measure of the country’s economic output within its boundaries — […]
Read MoreLaotians have spent less money on goods in Thailand after Vientiane imposed a 10% value-added tax late last year, a Lao customs official said on Thursday. Soutchai Inthavong, deputy chief of the customs international checkpoint at the Friendship Bridge, said the number of Laotians crossing the bridge to Thailand remained unchanged after the Lao government […]
Read MoreUS President Donald Trump’s executive order pulling the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has allayed Cambodia’s fears that it would lose its competitiveness in the garment industry, analysts said yesterday. “The potential threats to the Cambodian garment industry under the TPP will be abated as the US is the second-largest destination of garment […]
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