Photo credit: Bangkok Post TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT THAILAND, CAMBODIA Thailand, Cambodia hope to renew talks on developing disputed gas field (6 September 2019) Thailand and Cambodia are considering reviving talks on
Photo Credit: Straits Times Economy, Investment and Trade Singapore-Sichuan trade grew 42.8% in 2018 despite global uncertainties (4 September 2019) Trade between China’s Sichuan province and Singapore saw year-on-year growth of 50.3%
Photo credit: AFP TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT MYANMAR, THAILAND Thailand’s PTT Group to develop electricity system for New Yangon City (1 September 2019) Thailand’s PTT Group announced on August 30 that it
ASEAN Collective Leadership Running on Empty Originally published in TheEdge Malaysia At the Bangkok ASEAN summit in June, the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) asked the region’s leaders to show greater collective political leadership
HIGHLIGHTS August 2019 CPI inflation Headline inflation quickened to a 20-month high of 3.5% yoy in August, while core inflation increased to 3.3% yoy, the highest since February 2017. Drought, rising gold prices and
Photo credit: Myanmar Eleven TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT MYANMAR, THAILAND Thailand’s Amata Corporation to develop a smart city in Yangon, first in Myanmar (24 August 2019) Thailand’s largest industrial estate developer Amata Corporation
Photo Credit: VCG Economy, Investment and Trade Chinese investment pledges into Vietnam increases 134% y-o-y in first seven months of 2019 (22 August 2019) Chinese investment pledges increased 134% on the year
It’s fair to say that ASEAN is finding itself in between a rock and a hard place. With the trade war between the US and China seeing no sign of concluding, the region’s export-oriented
HIGHLIGHTS July 2019 industrial production Manufacturing weakness abates amid regional semiconductor rebound, and incremental gains in chemicals and transport engineering. Tech output surge to be short-lived as higher US-China tariffs loom from September. The
TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT VIETNAM, LAOS Vietnam, Laos to step up cooperation in trade and energy (18 August 2019) Vietnam and Laos’ ministries of trade and energy held their annual cooperation meetings