Daily News
These are sample stories on Asia which we track on a daily basis. The sources and links to the stories, which are available online, are acknowledged and listed. Where any of these stories require paid subscription to access, we've listed only the portion which the site allows.
THE PHILIPPINE government tempered its economic growth target for 2022, as rising inflation and ballooning debt threaten to hamper the economy’s recovery from the pandemic. Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno on 6 Jul 22 said
Rafizi Ramli winning the PKR deputy president race has been widely celebrated among opposition supporters. However, a survey by Rafizi’s analytics firm Invoke Solutions prior to the party polls has surmised that the impact of
Thailand’s headline inflation outstripped forecasts to hit a near 14-year high in Jun 22, reinforcing expectations of an interest rate hike as early as Aug 22, and with the commerce ministry warning price pressures will
Indonesia has raised the palm oil export quota in a bid to cut soaring inventories of the edible oil, a Trade Ministry official said, as a council member in a plantation area warned farmers faced
The production-linked incentives (PLI) scheme, which seeks to boost manufacturing in key areas by offering nearly INR2.4tr in incentives over the next five years, can add 4% to the GDP annually in terms of incremental