Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed the use of local currencies while urging the revitalization of trade between Russia and Southeast Asian nations during a recent forum in Jakarta.
The ASEAN Federation of Forwarders Associations (AFFA) Mid-Year 2023 conference opened in the central coastal city of Da Nang on July 15 to discuss measures to create favourable conditions for trans-border logistics and human resources development, while promoting digitalisation in the field of logistics in the region.
Cambodia has pinned hopes on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement and bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) to boost its exports of garment, footwear and travel (GFT) goods.
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has announced that it approved 113 new investment and expansion projects with combined registered capital of about 1.1 billion USD in the first half of this year, of which nearly 65% came from Chinese investors.
INDONESIA will push for the Group of 20 major economies to recognise lending for early retirement of coal power plants as sustainable investment at next week’s meeting of finance chiefs, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said on Wednesday (Jul 12).
Rate of QR payments in South-east Asia’s largest economy has tripled nearly every year since this service was launched in 2019.
Laos expects to earn more than 2 billion USD from agricultural exports this year, up from 1.73 billion USD in 2022, local media reported.
Government and ministries have been improving solutions to reduce logistics costs and create favourable conditions for sustainable development of the industry to make Việt Nam a logistics hub in ASEAN.Việt Nam's logistics market grew from 14 to 16 per cent with a total import-export turnover of US$730 billion in 2022. The country expects to be a new logistics centre in the Asia Pacific region, creating an effective transport network for domestic and international markets in the future.
<p>Time: 2024 By: Ministry of Industry and Trade</p>
