Singapore's government aims to attract as much as $5.8 billion of manufacturing investment this year and hopes to generate 20,000 to 25,000 new jobs.
State's Economic Development Board also aims to attract as much as $1.8 billion in business...
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South Korea's industrial output is declining, adding to signs of slow growth in Asia's third-largest economy. Production dropped by 0.3 percent from November.
The government's move to tighten lending regulations proved disastrous. Bank of Korea...
World Trade Organization Doha talks is not dead yet and there are strong signals given by the member countries to resume talks over the deal in the recently held meeting of leading commerce ministers in Davos. WTO Director General Pascal Lamy,...
Interestingly, steel export of China recorded a new high with exporting 43.01 million tones in 2006 despite cooling measures taken by the government and anti-dumping investigations launched by its trading partners. Steel producers of the U.S. and...
The U.S. housing sector has shown some signs of recovery with strong gains reported in sales of new homes in December, according to an official data released by the Commerce Department. The data indicated that new orders for costly manufactured goods.
South East Asian neighbors Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are planning to create an economic triangle in order to achieve a competitive edge to compete with India and China. Notwithstanding the competitive heat of rapidly growing Asian economies...
Brazil while taking cautious step for the global trade talks has stated that proposals by the U.S. and the European Union to cut farm subsidies and tariffs to break the deadlock are step in the right direction. The Brazilian foreign minister, Celso..
Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has announced an ambitious investment program that involves $240 billion for his second term in the office. The core target of the plan is to develop and restructure the infrastructure of the country...
In case of failure to revive global trade talks after World Economic Forum meeting in Davos this week, there are ample chances that legal challenges would be unleashed over existing trade arrangements. True to the fact, a failure of Doha round...
As the meeting of trade ministers at Global Economic Forum in Davos drawing closer, the European Union's chief trade negotiator Peter Mandelson said that efforts to restart stalled global trade talks are now gathering momentum and showing new vigor...
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