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Singapore keen to play peacemaker as US-China tensions rise
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/03/2023
» SINGAPORE: Top trade official in Singapore said the city-state is willing to facilitate a dialogue between the United States and China to repair their relationship, as he described growing tensions between the world’s biggest economies as detrimental to the world.
Osaka plans for its casino debut
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/12/2022
» LONDON: Japan’s second-largest metropolitan area aims to attract gamblers from South Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asia to its planned casino-resort as Covid-19 curbs in China have cut the flow of tourists, the region’s leader said.
Charting the global economy: Central banks step up tightening
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/06/2022
» More central banks around the world are unleashing a greater amount of policy firepower as they seek to combat unrelenting inflationary pressures.
Thai economic recovery trails others in Asia - ADB
Bloomberg News, Published on 28/04/2021
» Developing Asia’s economy will rebound faster this year than previously estimated, as nations tread diverging recovery paths, according to the Asian Development Bank.
Pork exports soar as neighbours reel from deadly disease
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/03/2021
» Thailand’s pork industry is bringing home the bacon after a deadly pig-killing disease wiped out millions of hogs across Asia.
Rate hikes coming to emerging markets with debt at records
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/03/2021
» Alarm bells are starting to ring across emerging markets as countries brace for a new era of rising interest rates.
Central bank sees hazy tourism outlook as major risk
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/02/2021
» The economy is expected to expand this year more slowly than previously forecast because of a resurgence in coronavirus cases, the central bank said, singling out an uncertain recovery in tourist arrivals as a “major risk” to the medium-term outlook.
Slump pushes spreads on risky bonds to decade-high
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/05/2020
» Thailand’s tourist-dependent economy is slowly re-opening but the dent from the coronavirus outbreak is so large that weaker borrowers are facing a tough time in the credit market.
Thailand aims to be Southeast Asia’s power-trading middleman
Bloomberg News, Published on 26/08/2019
» Thailand is jump starting a decades-old plan to create a Southeast Asia electricity super-grid, and wants to be the power-trading hub at the centre of it.
Bank of Thailand policy maker sees trade woe if Trump re-elected
Bloomberg News, Published on 16/06/2019
» Trade-reliant Thailand better get used to worrying about the export outlook if President Donald Trump wins a second term, according to an official who helps to decide the country’s policy interest rate.