Indonesian Stock Market Looking Strong This Year, May Exceed Expectations: Analyst Indonesia’s main stock market looks strong this year with analysts confident that the benchmark Jakarta Composite Index, or JCI, could exceed market expectations on […]
P800 M needed to rebuild 15 Marawi schools – Briones Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Leonor Briones said it will cost around P800 million to rebuild 15 Marawi City schools affected by the clash between […]
Rp 810t in government debt to mature in 2018, 2019 Of the Rp 3.67 quadrillion (US$274.23 billion) in government debt in April, Rp 810 trillion will fall due in 2018 and 2019, Finance Ministry data […]
Duterte approves P3.767-T budget for 2018 President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the P3.767-trillion budget for 2018, as he prepared to implement a massive infrastructure overhaul, one of his economic managers said Tuesday. — ABS-CBN Duterte’s […]
Exclusive: Chinese investors eye Indonesia’s P2P lending marketplace Investree Chinese investors are eyeing Indonesian online peer-to-peer lending marketplace Investree and have initiated discussions to invest in the company, according to three people aware of the […]
Factory growth slips, still ASEAN’s best IMPROVEMENT of factory activity in the Philippines slowed at the end of the second quarter, but still “signaled another strong expansion in June” that kept the country in Southeast […]
Donald Trump’s business dealings in Indonesia unearthed Donald Trump was running for the US presidency when he personally raised with senior Indonesian politicians the need to have a toll road completed in Indonesia to benefit […]
Cigarettes more affordable despite ‘sin tax’ law Bobby Falible was only 17 years old and a high school drop out doing farming jobs in Romblon when he started smoking, a habit he picked up from […]
ADB Continues Support for Indonesia’s Bid for More Inclusive Financial Sector The FINANCIAL — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $400 million policy-based loan to continue supporting the Government of Indonesia’s reforms to […]
Mindanao conflict pushing Duterte back into US orbit As Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte enters his second year in office, he is confronting his greatest political challenge. For the past month, a legion of Islamic State-affiliated […]
TCE signs MoU with Indonesia for laying roads with waste plastic The Centre for Solid Waste Management of Thiagarajar College of Engineering (TCE) here has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Coordinating Ministry of […]
PH keeps Tier 1 ranking in human trafficking The Philippines has maintained its Tier 1 ranking in the US State Department’s 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIPR) after fully meeting the minimum standard for the […]