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Vietnam
46.1% of Korean Companies in Vietnam Plan to Expand Local Investment
About one out of two Korean companies in Vietnam have a plan to expand local investment. According to a survey conducted with 76 Korean companies in Vietnam by the Korea Economic Daily and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, 46.1 percent of the companies replied that they will expand investment there. A ...
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USA Vietnam
Vietnam's Infrastructure Market Promises Huge Opportunities
The size of Vietnam's public procurement market, including public infrastructure investment in the areas of roads and ports, is estimated at US$21.9 billion in 2014. The Vietnamese government expects the size of the procurement market to grow to $27.1 billion by 2020. In the Vietnamese public procurement market, the biggest sources ...
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Vietnam
Vietnam Shifts Itself Toward "Smartphone" Production Hub
The Vietnamese government is showing strong willingness to foster parts and component industries aimed at improving its industrial competitiveness. Despite the recent increase in foreign investment in Vietnam's manufacturing sector, the nation's localization ratio for parts and materials remains less than 30 percent. To address this situation, the Vietnamese government is ...
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Cina USA
Trade War May Break out between U.S. and China
A trade war may break out between the United States and China right after Donald Trump won the Presidential race. As it is getting more likely that the President-elect will designate China as a country manipulating its exchange rate at the expense of trading partners and that his campaign pledges ...
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USA Corea del Sud
Seoul stocks fall on foreign sell-offs
South Korean stocks fell on Tuesday, derailed by sell-offs by foreign investors over concerns of a strong US dollar. The
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USA
Free trade with Korea creates jobs in US: vice finance minister
The Free Trade Agreement between South Korea and the US has been helpful in creating jobs in the US through Korean comp
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Nigeria
CBN, SEC, others fingered in N450bn un-remitted operating surpluses
The Federal Ministry of Finance said it constituted a committee to recover unremitted operating surpluses of agencies of government, running into N450billion. The committee led by the Accountant General of the Federation, Alhaji Ahmed Idris, was mandated to reconcile the operating surpluses of 31 revenue-generating agencies of government for the period ...
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Nigeria
Truekolours Hub to launch Bizstagram Wednesday
Truekolours Hub on Tuesday announced the launch of Africa’s first virtual exhibition centre for women entrepreneurs doing business in Africa, “Bizstagram”. Bizstagram, according to Truekolours Hub in a release, gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their businesses with storified pictures and videos in a way that allows people from around the ...
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Nigeria
Zamfara cattle sellers bemoan low patronage
Cattle sellers in Gusau, Zamfara, have expressed concern over poor patronage. Alhaji Gambo Aliyu, the leader of cattle rearers, opposite Central Motor Park, Gusau, disclosed in Gusau. Aliyu said that cattle business often recorded low sales during normal days when there was no festival. “We hardly sell two cows in a day; ...
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Senegal
Une diversité de sujets à la Une des quotidiens
Dakar, 15 nov (APS) – Les quotidiens reçus mardi à l'APS traitent de sujets relatifs à la magistrature avec le rejet par le Comité de juridiction du projet de loi organique sur la Cour suprême, la COP 22 et les suites judiciaires du carburant présumé toxique vendu au Sénégal. Dakar, ...