Singapore Morning News For May 2

Singapore Morning News For May 2

Singapore’s GDP to grow 2.2% this year: UN agency The Republic’s growth outlook is expected to pick up to 2.2 per cent this year and 2.5 per cent in 2018, mainly conditional on a revival […]

Philippines Morning News For April 28

Philippines Morning News For April 28

Philippines’ Duterte says helpless against China Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday (Apr 27) there was no point protesting Chinese artificial island building in disputed areas of the South China Sea because it could […]

Myanmar Morning News For April 28

Myanmar Morning News For April 28

Meth’s new frontier: The Islamic marshlands of Bangladesh Annual seizures of meth in the country have gone up 80,000 percent — yes, eighty thousand percent — in nine years. — PRI Mizoram bans import of pigs and piglets from […]

Singapore Morning News For April 28

Singapore Morning News For April 28

Bangkok gets the traffic, Singapore gets the bucks Bangkok may be the most visited destination in Asia-Pacific among foreign visitors, but it is Singapore where they spend the most. — Bangkok Post 33% of the […]

Indonesia Morning News For April 28

Indonesia Morning News For April 28

Agriculture ministry to create 80,000 hectares of new rice fields The Agriculture Ministry has expressed its optimism that it is able to create some 80,000 hectares of new rice fields this year as targeted by […]

Singapore Morning News For April 27

Singapore Morning News For April 27

New S$1 billion innovation fund to drive enterprise growth The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (Ipos) and home-based private equity firm Makara Capital launched a S$1 billion fund on Wednesday (April 26), with aims to […]

Philippines Morning News For April 27

Philippines Morning News For April 27

Exclusive: Industry builder REAPRA targets to invest $46m in SE Asia this year Active business builder REAPRA Pte Ltd targets to invest up to $46.6 million (S$65 million) more in Southeast Asia this year and […]

Indonesia Morning News For April 27

Indonesia Morning News For April 27

Indosat Eyes Rp 3t From Bond Sale in May to Repay Debt, Expand Network Indosat, Indonesia’s second-largest telecommunications operator, plans to raise Rp 3 trillion ($226 million) from a bond sale next month to repay […]

Myanmar Morning News For April 27

Myanmar Morning News For April 27

Telecom operator Ooredoo prepares to launch mobile money services in Myanmar Ooredoo, one of the three telecom providers in Myanmar, is gearing up to launch mobile money services in the country. — Deal Street Asia […]

Singapore Morning News For April 26

Singapore Morning News For April 26

NUS embarks on programme to promote fintech and blockchain training in Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing and the IBM Center for Blockchain Innovation (ICBI), a part of IBM Research, are […]

Philippines Morning News For April 26

Philippines Morning News For April 26

Duterte’s China honeymoon comes to a close Ten months into Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte’s tenure, his strategic honeymoon with China has devolved into rocky relations. — Asia Times Death penalty bill already ‘dead’ in Senate […]