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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... Philippine GDP faster than most Asian countries. Over the same period, China's economy expanded by 6.7%; Vietnam by 5.5%, Indonesia by 4.9%, Malaysia by 4.2% and Thailand by 3.2%. According to the National Economic Development Authority, "This robust ...

Mirae backs Asian consumers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... Investments' head for Indian equity funds, Rahul Chadha, said if economies such as China, India, the Philippines and Indonesia get their act together there will be powerful money making opportunities driven largely by the consumer. Chadha said this was ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... and employment - could be prompting British consumers to tighten their purse strings until the issue is resolved. Bank Indonesia policy decision The Bank Sentral Republik Indonesia kept its policy rate unchanged at 6.75% following its 20-21 April meeting ...

Competitiveness at risk from STEM fall-off

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... in Tech" and conducted by MasterCard the study surveyed 1,560 girls aged 12 to 19 years in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. China and India came out as the leaders in girls' uptake of STEM subjects at 76% and 69% respectively. ...

BNP Paribas Securities Services wins mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... wholly-owned branches and subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Macau, Brunei, a 97% subsidiary in Sri Lanka, a 26% joint venture in India and representative ...

PROFILE: Mercer chief customer officer Renee McGowan

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
Renee McGowan is fluent in Indonesian and has worked in over 30 countries during her career. As Mercer chief customer and marketing officer, she has become the organisation's custodian of customers. McGowan admits she had a fairly accidental entry into ...

US growth stable due to resilient consumer-base

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... global workforce from 1.5 billion to 3 billion people. When you take down the borders in China, India, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia, we have hundreds of millions of very low wage underemployed workers coming to the global workforce," he continued. "That ...

ANZ rolls out new executive team

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... Hodges - deputy chief executive officer who will have responsibility for ANZ's international partnership investments in Indonesia, Malaysia, China and The Philippines. Hodges will also remain acting chief financial officer. The internal and external ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... such, action would greatly improve investor confidence. The top five countries in this group are Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran and India. Australia's demographic index ranking is 98 out of 168, a somewhat middling performance with its ageing population ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... The fall in commodity prices over the last few months has resulted in commodity importers such as India, Malaysia or Indonesia becoming more competitive in global markets. At the same time, global growth is starting to pick up after the global financial ...