During a recent trip to China, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced that he had secured 19 memoranda of understanding from Chinese entitie…
Market Insights
Commodity Market Report – 10 April 2023
Gold prices protruded above USD2030 /oz last week but fell before weekend. This week, the market is prone to encounter some profit-taking as Dollar ma…
Weekly Rubber Report – 10 April 2023
Market Fundamentals: Commodity prices rose last week led by Gold and Crude demands. Unfortunately, Rubber prices traded in weak pattern as we forecast…
Sri Lanka’s economy to contract before recovery in 2024 – ADB
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) annual flagship economic publication, the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) April 2023, forecasts Sri Lanka’s economy…
Malaysia secures record of Chinese investment commitment
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has announced that the country has secured a record of 170 billion RM (38.53 billion USD) worth of investment c…
Malaysia, China ink partnership to stabilise palm oil supply chain
MALAYSIA said on Sunday (Apr 2) that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with a China government-backed trade association to enhance palm oil …
Vietnam invests in new rail line to connect with China-Laos railway
Vietnamese infrastructure investor DEOCA Group and Laos oil trading company PTL have signed a joint venture agreement to conduct a study on constructi…
The Tourism Recovery in South East Asia: Twelve Months On
Endemic is not a word you tend to hear today. Rewind twelve months, and it was hard to avoid throughout South East Asia. Politicians talked frequently…
India emerging as ‘global keeper of rule-based order’
India emerging as ‘global keeper of rule-based order’ In the past few years, India has ticked all the right boxes diplomatically, economically, or mil…
IMF is bullish Sri Lanka’s crisis-stricken economy will recover as country gets bailout
The International Monetary Fund has finally approved a $3 billion bailout for Sri Lanka, paving the way for the country to restructure its debt and fo…