Photo credit: Myanmar Times TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT MYANMAR, THAILAND Myanmar, Thailand, Japan to form a committee to develop Dawei SEZ (25 July 2019) The Myanmar, Thailand and Japan governments will form
Originally published in TheEdge Malaysia, 29 July – 4 August 2019 edition. The controversy over the rare earths industry in Malaysia seems to have fallen down a rabbit hole of simplistic questions chasing simplistic
Photo Credit: Reuters Economy, Investment and Trade China, Singapore launch cold chain product trade platform (26 July 2019) China and Singapore industry players launched on July 25 an intergovernmental cold chain product
ASEAN must chart a new vision to guide the bloc moving towards 2040 due to the changing externalities confronting ASEAN including the rising regional competition from China and India, the ongoing US-Sino rivalry, and
Photo Credit: Getty Images Economy, Investment and Trade ASEAN was China’s second-largest trade partner in 1H 2019 (21 July 2019) China-ASEAN trade grew 10.5% in the first half of the year totalling
Hope in China’s New Silk Road Originally published in World Energy Magazine, N.43 edition. At the 2nd Belt and Road Forum (BRF) in Beijing at the end of April, attended by 150 countries, 37
Photo credit: Vietnam News/Asia News Network TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT VIETNAM Private sector minimum wage set to rise 5.5% next year (15 July 2019) The minimum wage in Vietnam’s private sector is
Photo Credit: iStock Economy, Investment and Trade Chinese venture capital investment in ASEAN surges fourfold (10 July 2019) Chinese venture capital investment in Southeast Asian technology companies grew fourfold in the first
Photo credit: Bangkok Post TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT LAOS, VIETNAM Thailand’s B. Grimm Group opens two solar farms in Vietnamn (5 July 2019) Thailand’s B. Grimm Group began operating two solar farms
Photo Credit: The Malaysian Reserve Economy, Investment and Trade Malaysia-China trade hits US$100 billion (9 July 2019) China retained its position as Malaysia’s top trade partner for the tenth consecutive year, with