FULL-YEAR electronics exports could contract by more than 5% given slow consumption in troubled Western markets, an industry official yesterday said
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Read MoreRegional News The International Air Transport Association forecasts Indonesia will be among the top 10 markets for air travel due to the country’s
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Read MoreIndonesia Indonesia threatens retaliation as RIM builds factory in Malaysia. Canada-based Research In Motion recently chose to bypass Indonesia as
Read MoreRegional News (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will visit Australia and the Indonesian island of Bali in mid-November, the White House said on Mo
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. No one else among our Southeast Asian neighbors saw poverty worsen in the last 10 years the way we did in the Phil
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Read MoreRegional News PHILIPPINE GROWTH FORECASTS have been cut by another multilateral institution, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) pointing to
Read MoreRegional News Major foreign investors in Indonesia will be granted tax holidays in a bid to attract more direct investment into Southeast Asia's la
Read MoreRegional News Keen to boost foreign direct investment into Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia on Monday said it planned to grant tax holid
Read MoreRegional News SHANGHAI – Garuda Indonesia, the largest airline in Indonesia, has joined Ctrip, China’s largest online travel service provider, to l
Read MoreRegional News After seven years and hundreds of billions of rupiah in public money, Jakarta on Monday finally pulled the plug on the city’s abortiv
Read MoreGlobal News The rise of China's currency could reshape the global monetary system— and fundamentally alter the world's main engine of growth The w
Read MoreGlobal News For years, the U.S. has been the most vocal advocate of yuan appreciation, as part of its efforts to address its persistent trade defic
Read MoreStrategy to attain ‘inclusive’ economic growth The government is evaluating P4 trillion worth of proposed projects for the investment program that
Read MoreRegional News Internet Use Poised to Balloon but Some Business Habits Die Hard NEW DELHI--Google Inc. predicts India will add 200 million Internet
Read MoreRemittances from Filipinos overseas continued to rise in July despite the persistent weakness of the global economy and the rise of worrisome labor
Read MoreRegional News This is a re-posted op-ed piece. I FIRST visited China in 1979, a few months after our countries normalized relations. China was just
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