The non-sovereign loan would be co-financed with the International Finance Corporation, with the capital aiming to boost the Asian nation’s economic recovery amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemi…
Vietnam Is Booming Economically. Not Its Stock Market
Vietnam is a bundle of contradictions for investors. Economically, the country is an all-star. Growth was cruising around 7% annually before this year. Exports are climbing the value chain from appare…
Too-tight virus policy is strangling economy, experts warn
Thailand should overcome concern of a second wave of Covid-19 and instead relax restrictions on foreign investors and tourists in order to shore up its falling economy, say a prominent investor and le…
Spotlight: Malaysia manufacturing sectors eyes RCEP to boost post-pandemic regional economic recovery
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade pact, once in effect, will provide a much-needed boost to participating countries working to reverse the current economic downturn caused b…
Rubber farmers take to coffee to supplement income
The crop holds out promise of maximum land utilisation and better yields As farmers cope with plummeting income from natural rubber, coffee has turned out to be a choice crop, holding out promise of s…
Opportune time to invest in tourism infrastructure
Investing amid a crisis seems counterintuitive, but that might be an advisable course of action for the tourism industry, which continues to be ravaged by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pande…
China economy rebounds in Q2 after virus hit: AFP poll
China returned to growth in the second quarter after the coronavirus pandemic handed the world’s second largest economy its first contraction in decades, according to an AFP poll of analysts. Th…
India is a more cost-effective option for Kathmandu than China. Here’s why.
India has a major role to play India accounts for 64% of Nepal’s total volume of trade, according to data sourced from Economic Survey of 2018-19. Non-tariff Trade: Informal trade happens in the Terai…
Boosting rubber tappers’ incomes through pineapple and mushrooms
The primary industries and commodities ministry will come up with a suitable integrated farming model to enable rubber smallholders to earn extra income through other crops rather than just depending …
Turning on the Lights for 450,000 People in Rural Myanmar
More than 450,000 people in rural Myanmar are expected to gain access to clean energy for the first time following the signing of a grant agreement between the World Bank Group and the Government of M…