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Philippines mimicking Thailand to build auto industry
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/03/2015
» MANILA — The Philippines will offer tax breaks to as many as three automakers as one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies aims to become a regional production hub.
As rice mountain shrinks, a rubber one rises
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/04/2015
» Eight months after the government started selling rice into an oversupplied global market, officials are taking a different tack amid a rubber glut.
Philippine island of 120 stares down China’s military might
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/07/2015
» MANILA — On a clear night, the Filipinos who live on Pagasa Island — a speck in the vast South China Sea — can see the floodlights from giant Chinese cranes working around the clock, dredging sand to build on a nearby reef.
If Singapore is Lonely Planet’s No. 1 destination, where are the tourists?
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/07/2015
» Singapore was ranked as Lonely Planet’s top 2015 destination. That hasn’t helped the island draw more tourists so far this year.
Baht's tumble to 2009 low ties BoT's hands
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/08/2015
» The baht’s descent to a six-year low as investors flee is making it harder for the Bank of Thailand to revive an economy beset by an El Nino-induced drought.
Yuan devaluation seen reigniting currency wars in Asia
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/08/2015
» SINGAPORE — China’s surprise devaluation of the yuan couldn’t have come at a worse time for some Asian currencies.
US ‘Big Sugar’ fighting to protect a sweet deal from TPP
Bloomberg News, Published on 28/08/2015
» A sweet deal for American sugar farmers is compounding delays in a proposed trade agreement affecting 40% of the world’s economy.
World’s oldest rainforests burn as Jokowi scales back promises
Bloomberg News, Published on 02/10/2015
» JAKARTA -- Having promised to extinguish forest fires in Riau in western Indonesia by early October, President Joko Widodo jetted into Sumatra island last week for a progress check. The smoke was so thick his plane couldn’t land, forcing him back to the capital.
The last frontier: Myanmar’s two-decade stock market journey
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/12/2015
» YANGON -- Two decades after his firm first laid the groundwork for an exchange in Myanmar, Ryota Sugishita found himself in a Yangon hotel ballroom in 2013, facing down sceptics in an audience of bankers, corporate executives and politicians.
Slavery labels sought for US goods
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/12/2015
» NEW YORK — “This item may be the product of slave labour.”