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Indonesia presents new economic stimulus package
Indonesia on November 16 announced a new economic stimulus package to support the rupiah and spur growth in the lead-up to the upcoming presidential...
Singapore company plans Oud factories in the Middle East
Asia Plantation Capital, a Singapore-headquartered group that operates agarwood plantations in Southeast Asia that deliver the precious raw material for expensive Oud perfumes highly...
Myanmar to expand private investment in forest plantations
Myanmar is inviting foreign and domestic companies to invest in forest plantations on more than 100,000 hectares of government land, state media reported on...
Philippines targets 8 million hectares for palm oil production
The Philippines is proposing to convert 8 million hectares (20 million acres) of 'idle, denuded and unproductive lands' for oil palm plantations, reports the...
Norway’s state fund blacklists 2 Malaysian companies
Norway's sovereign wealth fund Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the world's largest ahead of Saudi Arabia's and Abu Dhabi's with assets of about $760...
Forest fire haze: Still no effective solution
The suffocating smog that much of Southeast Asia suffered through in June is back. Last week it started to again blanket much of Malaysia,...
Sumatra fires: First culprits named
Environmental organisations via NASA satellite data have identified a great number of fire hotspots in Sumatra, source of the hazardous smog that enveloped Singapore...
Cargill to boost palm oil investments
US food and agro-giant Cargill Inc. has said it will "aggressively" expand its palm oil holdings in Sulawesi, Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra in order...
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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...