Empowering business in Southeast Asia
The Philippines is revolutionizing its public transports, gradually implementing the use of electric vehicles in order to reduce pollution. The replacement of iconic “Jeepneys” and motorized tricycles aims at helping to clean the atmosphere for the Filipinos and fostering the development of new industries.
This report by the Economist Intelligence Unit examines the Free-Trade Agreements – FTA – in South-East Asia and their real usefulness for business. With a lot of feedback from professionals involved in international trade, it will help companies and governments apprehend current and upcoming FTAs.
The Brunei Economic Development Board is a public agency in Brunei focusing on the growth and diversification of the Bruneian economy. Providing information on doing business in Brunei, it helps all those interested in investing and expanding their operations in the sultanate of Brunei.
Presentation that details the characteristics, needs and concerns of online sellers in Malaysia. All those interested in learning more about the profiles of online sellers, such as developers and marketers for online shops will find crucial elements to learn more about the requests of current and future online merchants.
Google has just created an amazing resource to explore the temples of Angkor with a special “Street View” website of Google Maps. In this first-person 3D reconstructionfrom assembled pictures, anyone can visit the most famous temples of Siem Reap and view in great details their amazing architecture and art as if they were there.
This new video presents 7 insights and perspectives that make ASEAN one of the most dynamic and competitive region in the world. Through a beautiful animation, the current and projected population and economy of ASEAN demonstrate the attractiveness of the Association of South-East Asian Nations.
In a recent report, the World Bank presents an overview of the economy of the Philippines: from macro-economy and finance to human welfare and development indicators. With analysis of current economic policies, disaster recovery as well as future perspectives, this document will provide valuable information to business leaders, economic analysts, investors and policy makers.
The major stock exchanges in ASEAN actively collaborate to promote ASEAN stocks as a common asset class. In this spirit, they have set up a very useful website for stock investors to follow in real time the evolution of stocks and indexes for each of the seven major stock exchanges and as an aggregated ASEAN market and …
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Despite recent clashes with China that made the headlines in the media, some very positive economic and financial factors have attracted a lot of capital in Vietnam. In this Bloomberg video, Rishaad Salamat asks Don Lam of Vinacapital about the fundamentals and outlook for the Vietnamese economy.
In a new series of reports on the rising Asian economies in industrially dynamic sectors, the Economist Intelligence Unit brings us a new survey of the state of clean technologies and energy in Asia. With analysis of the clean tech companies and sector, this report outlines the dynamism of the industry and highlights the opportunities to …
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