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  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Reading & education keys to better economy

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 04/10/2012

    » Govt spending & handouts can increase incomes right now, but only better education & more reading will lead to lasting income increase.

  • BUSINESS

    Year of Turbulence

    Asia focus, Published on 27/12/2021

    » Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    For poor people: Loans, insurance, savings

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/01/2012

    » For the many poor people not able to use banks, Japan funds a program to provide them these essential services.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Asean 2015: Free movement of labour

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 05/06/2012

    » Thailand attractive for skilled workers (doctors, nurses, engineers, accountants, tourism) under Asean free labour markets in 2015.

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