Asia Pacific Breweries
Colgate-Palmolive to open factory in Myanmar
The Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) has given US company Colgate-Palmolive a licence to produce commodities in Myanmar.
The company applied to the Directorate of Investment...
Thai tycoons go for it in multi-billion deals
Thai billionaires Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi and Dhanin Chearavanont have closed two major deals that astounded the global business community due to their sheer size.
Sirivadhanabhakdi succeeded...
Beer battle gets tougher
Heineken and Thai Beverage, both in the run to acquire Singapore's Tiger Beer maker Asia Pacific Breweries (APB), are locked in a bidding brawl,...
Dutch-Thai beer battle erupting
The bidding war between Heineken Group of the Netherlands and Thailand's largest brewer Thai Beverage for Singapore's Tiger Beer is getting tougher.
In a surprise...
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Cambodian banana exports surge nearly 30% on high demand from China
Cambodia exported 423,168 tonnes of fresh bananas in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 27 per cent, The Phnom Penh Post cited data from the...
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Myanmar’s economic outlook remains bleak after one year of renewed military rule
The World Bank is maintaining a bleak outlook for Myanmar from the double whammy of the military coup on February 1, 2021 and the...