The Laos government has approved more than 6,000 investment projects with combined funding of around US$37 billion since the introduction of the market-oriented economy and opening up to the world in …
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Vietnam has squashed coronavirus curve, likely to recover economy too
Vietnam’s success in dealing with the pandemic has been attributed to some decisive, but tough steps which it enforced without dithering like some of its neighbours in ASEAN. These measures included a…
India Becomes Transportation Highway Center of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Much has been made of recent Indian regulatory issues being anti-China investment in tone. However, they failed to read the small print. India is in fact the current largest recipient of announced Chi…
Sri Lanka to focus on high-spending tourists to revive tourism
Colombo: Sri Lanka will target high-spending tourists to revive the tourism sector which has been shattered by the coronavirus pandemic, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said. Widespread travel restri…
How Are Countries Reopening? Firsthand Reports From Around the World
Leave it to the Germans to come up with a sinuous, unpronounceable, and entirely perfect word to describe the slew of debates over how and when to reopen economies locked down due to the coronavirus: …
Vietnam must turn coronavirus success into economic growth
First, it looked like Vietnam was having a good U.S.-China trade war, quietly grabbing much of the factory business fleeing the mainland’s shaky economy. Now it seems to be escaping the worst of…
Malaysia criticises WHO’s advice against palm oil during coronavirus
Malaysia criticised the World Health Organisation on Monday for advising adults to avoid palm oil in their diet during the COVID-19 outbreak and use alternatives such as olive oil. The WHO Eastern Med…
Asean Today – April 2020
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Economist: Strong, productive workforce key to Malaysia’s economic resilience
The Malaysian economy has the resiliency to bounce back from the current situation due to its strong and productive labour force, an economist said. Juwai IQI chief economist Shan Saeed said the gover…
The Great Wall against China: Understanding India’s new foreign investment rules
The finance ministry on Wednesday notified changes in FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) rules which mandate “prior approval” from the Centre for foreign investments from countries “tha…