Oil prices rose on Wednesday as concerns about supply disruptions following U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry outweighed downward pressure from a darkening outlook for the global economy. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at…
China should increase imports of Vietnamese goods and make more hi-tech investments, government officials and business representatives say. Le Hoai Trung, Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, proposed at the Vietnam-China Economic Promotion Forum…
Vietnam may grow more than 7 percent in 2018, the highest in 10 years, and is likely to maintain the rate next year, experts say. Nguyen Xuan Thanh, director of development, and public policy lecturer at the Fulbright University of Vietnam, said the country’s…
Malaysia’s exports rebounded by 6.7% in September 2018 to RM83 billion year-on-year (y-o-y) after a slight decrease in the previous month, according to Statistics Department. Total trade which was valued at RM150.8 billion increased RM3.3 billion or 2.3% in…
If President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo wants to see Indonesia join the top 40 countries in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking under his watch, he should make sure he wins re-election next year. Indonesia slipped one place to 73rd, behind Greece, the…