Singapore's finance minister said its unemployment rate could rise to a record of over 100,000 in 2020 due to fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Sin ... ( read original story ...)
COVID-19 Cases at Kazakhstan’s Tengiz Oil Field Top 1,000
Two-thirds of the field’s workforce were sent home late last month, but it continues to grow as a virus hotspot. ( read original story ...)
Croft on OPEC: Issue now is compliance among member countries Nigeria and Iraq
Helima Croft, managing director and global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, talks oil prices and OPEC+ output cuts. ( read original story ...)
Turkey’s Albayrak Says Jobs Prioritized Over Fiscal Discipline
The government’s priority is to shield employment and sectors that are affected by the coronavirus pandemic, Albayrak said at a press conference Friday, according to Bloomberg H ... ( read original story ...)
Vietnam money supply up 3.4%, loans up 1.96% at end-May against 2019 -c.bank
Vietnam's money supply (M2) at the end of May rose 3.4% against the end of 2019, while banks posted credit growth of 1.96% in the same period, the central bank said on Friday. "Vietnam will continue t ... ( read original story ...)
Sam Johnson, Vietnam POW who became a Texas congressman, dies at 89
Mr. Johnson, who represented a district near Dallas that included the growing city of Plano in Collin County, was the oldest member of Congress when he retired in 2019. He was considered one of the ... ( read original story ...)
Two-wheeler Motorcycle Markets in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam 2019-2020 – Highly Concentrated Markets, Led by Honda – ResearchAndMarkets.com
The "Analysis of the Two-wheeler Motorcycle Market in Key ASEAN Countries, Forecast to 2020" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. ( read original story ...)
Japan Minister Says Higher ‘Cultural Standard’ Helped Beat Virus
Japan’s success against the coronavirus without enforcing a strict lockdown is due to the citizens’ “cultural standard” that is different from other nations, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, drawing ... ( read original story ...)
IMF asks Pakistan to freeze govt employees’ salaries to cut public debt
Pakistan is finding it hard to concede to the two demands but the IMF is insisting that the country should continue to follow the fiscal consolidation path ... ( read original story ...)
Indonesia says it will ask Freeport build copper smelter in Halmahera
The Indonesian government will ask PT Freeport Indonesia to build a copper smelter in Weda Bay, a newly built metal industrial park in Halmahera, the senior minister overseeing mining said on Friday. ( read original story ...)