30,000 Thai workers for Qatar?
As reported on October 16, an agreement is set to be signed this month between Thailand’s labour ministry and officials from Qatar to send no less than 30,000 Thai workers to Qatar to fill labour...
View ArticleSingapore will be Asia’s new LNG trading hub
The small city-state of Singapore is on the verge to become Asia’s new trading hub for liquefied natural gas, and this will be crucial for Qatar’s LNG trade in the immediate future. As part of the...
View ArticleMalaysia’s total trade up 2.4% in first 9 months of 2013
Malaysia’s total trade for the January-September 2013 period increased 2.4 per cent to RM1 trillion ($317.5 billion) in the same period of 2012, said Malaysia External Development Corporation...
View ArticleQatar brings innovation to ASEAN
Good news emerged recently with regards to Qatar’s business involvement in Southeast Asia. Not only that the country’s telecom group Ooredoo announced that it will jump straight into 3G mobile phone...
View ArticlePush for Islamic Finance needed in Brunei
Brunei, although it has a small banking market, is still somehow underestimating the potential of Islamic finance as incentives to set up Shariah banking facilities are probably still too inadequate....
View ArticleOoredoo, Digicel sign deal in Myanmar
Qatar’s Ooredoo and Digicel Asian Holdings, a consortium of Jamaica-based Digicel Group, Yoma Strategic and First Myanmar Investment Co Ltd (FMI), said in a release on December 3 that they have signed...
View ArticleQatar’s trade finance in focus
Outlook remains very positive, finds Barwa Bank CEO Steve Troop The post Qatar’s trade finance in focus appeared first on Investvine.
View ArticleThailand’s Centara group in Mideast expansion
Thailand’s largest hotel operator, Centara Hotels & Resorts, has said that it is eager to expand with new facilities in the Middle East as it sees huge growth opportunities in the region. The...
View ArticleTelenor launches Myanmar mobile phone service
Norway’s Telenor said it would launch telecommunications services in Myanmar on Sept. 27, becoming the second foreign telecoms company to start operating in one of the world’s least connected nations....
View ArticleIndonesia to impose ‘maids ban’ earlier than expected
Indonesia will prevent its female citizens from working as housemaids and domestic helpers in foreign countries earlier than widely expected, it emerged after a meeting of the country’s National...
View ArticleQatar buys Singapore tower in largest-ever deal in Asia-Pacific
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority agreed to buy Asia Square Tower 1 in Singapore for $2.5 billion from US investment firm BlackRock Inc. in the biggest single-tower property deal...
View ArticleBrunei royals back foundation of new Wall Street bank
Members of the Royal Family of Brunei are among the financial backers of a plan by former Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan to launch a new merchant bank in the US with seed capital of no less than $3...
View ArticleSoutheast Asia in the stranglehold of capital outflows
What is currently happening in Southeast Asia’s economies needs closer attention. It seems that the major nations have hit a speed bump in their economic development, not one that might be unable to...
View ArticleSingapore-GCC trade agreement in effect
A new trade pact, the Gulf Cooperation Council-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (GSFTA) came into effect on September 1, 2013. The GSFTA is a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) covering trade in...
View ArticleHow can Qatar beef up its appeal for foreign workers?
An easy question, it seems: Pay them a multiple of what they would earn at home. That’s true, but does only apply to highly-skilled personnel from Europe and the US who can pocket up to QR75,000...
View ArticleLocal Myanmar telecom firm to raise $1b
Myanmar’s Yatanapon Teleport, one of the two local rivals against the two foreign mobile operators in Myanmar – Norway’s Telenor and Qatar’s Ooredoo who acquired the nationwide telecom licenses in the...
View ArticleSultan of Brunei on hotel buying spree
Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, who via the Brunei Investment Agency controls the Dorchester Collection, chain of currently 9 luxury hotels in the US and Europe, is eyeing to add at least six more...
View ArticleNumber of Filipino workers in Qatar decreasing
The number of Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Qatar has been decreasing since 2012, partly because of the Philippine government’s imposition of a $400 minimum wage for Filipina housemaids,...
View ArticleLessons learnt: The end of a volatile summer for ASEAN
The surprise announcement by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on September 19 that the Fed will not taper its money stimulus programme yet came as good news for Southeast Asian countries, whose...
View ArticleFuture of ASEAN sukuk placement
Steve Troop, CEO of Barwa Bank, about GCC investors' response The post Future of ASEAN sukuk placement appeared first on Investvine.
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