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Filipinos spend more than ten hours online per day – world record
The Philippines are topping the global country ranking of Internet usage per day with an average ten hours and 2 minutes of screen time....
Trump backs boycott of Thai-made Harley-Davidson bikes
In what is probably a first in US history, an acting president publicly supported calls for a boycott of a US product, and, with...
Thais spend a record of 9.38 hours on the Internet – daily
Thai people are spending an average of nine hours and 38 minutes daily on the Internet, with around one third of this time used...
Singapore’s Changi wins auction for Rio airport
Singapore's airport operator Changi Airports International (CAI) has said its consortium partnership with Brazil's Odebrecht TransPort (OTP) has won a 25-year concession to run...
Thailand, Chile sign free trade agreement
Thailand and Chile on October 4 in Bangkok signed a free trade agreement (FTA) to pave the way to eliminate tariffs on 90 per...
Asia’s worst currency: The rupiah
Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, has topped India's rupee in being the worst-performing currency in Asia since June, Japanese investment house Nomura said.
The currency has...
Teckler: Content sharing as a business model
Teckler is a web portal that represents an innovative way in which users and a publishing platform based on advertising partner together, giving life...
How can Qatar beef up its appeal for foreign workers?
An easy question, it seems: Pay them a multiple of what they would earn at home. That’s true, but does only apply to highly-skilled...
Alleged Thai drug smuggler sentenced to death in Vietnam
She flew from Brazil to Vietnam with two bulky photo albums filled with two kilogrammes of cocaine. It was on October 1, 2012, when...
Indonesia and India named world’s biggest shark killers
In July, a European Union-sponsored study found that Indonesia and India kill the most sharks of all countries. The purpose of the study was...
Philippines: Poultry with prospects
An interview with San Miguel Pure Foods' president Rita Palabyab
Emerging market growth slows to over four-year low: HSBC
Emerging market economic activity grew at the slowest pace in over four years according to a monthly report published by HSBC Holdings PLC dated...
Look fast: Global resources hidden behind poor governance
80 per cent of countries with global integral oil, gas and mining sectors fail to achieve good governance, displaying shortcomings in transparency and government accountability.
Starbucks claims robust Vietnam revenues
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has announced that the coffee house giant’s first outlet in Ho Chi Minh City posted better revenues than expected after...
Tourists evermore in love with Thailand
International tourist arrivals to Thailand posted a growth of 19.04 per cent from January to April 2o13, the Thai Ministry of Tourism and Sports...
Latin America and ASEAN forging closer ties
While the northern hemisphere has been struggling to solve internal crunches, new trade, investment and cooperation axes were being formed globally. In this scenario, ASEAN and Latin America are moving closer.
Malaysian investors favour UK property
Investors from Malaysia have poured no less than $3.8 billion into the UK property market since 2010, new data from global real estate form...
Malaysia tops Asia’s investment in Africa
Malaysia is ahead of China in foreign direct investments in Africa, new data published by the United Nations shows.
A survey of foreign investment into...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...