Indonesia has nixed part of a recent plan to ease foreign ownership in a bid to protect its domestic small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), The about-face affects foreign ownership in five specific industry sectors. Addressing […]
If the Philippines wants to improve its ease of doing business score government agencies need to throw out the procedures and documents they use now and start again. This was the grim, but stark assessment […]
In a warning sign for the Philippine economy inbound foreign investment pledges in the first quarter of 2018 plummeted to their lowest level in 31 quarters while exports, which remained in the red for the […]
In Thailand English-language News for November 27, 2017, Newsline presenter Cholaphansa Narula tells us about: 00:38 | Thais across the country continue to visit the royal crematorium and special exhibition. Sixty shuttle buses are available to transport visitors […]
The release last month of the 2018 ASEAN Business Outlook Survey by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Singapore predictably enough resulted in a flood of headlines across the region touting the bullish sentiment […]
Foreign investors are sending an increasingly strong message to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte over his ‘war on drugs’ and at times outrageous and crude comments. And it is a message that doesn’t bode well for […]