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SINGAPORE (June 22): The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has forecasted a higher gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 2.7% for Singapore this year, citing improved growth dynamics and the ongoing recovery in global trade.

HANOI (May 30): Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has a tough task when he visits the White House this week: Convince President Donald Trump to advance trade ties that blossomed under the Obama administration.

SINGAPORE (May 17): Singapore’s export recovery came to a sudden halt in April as the sharp decline in pharmaceuticals weighed on non-oil domestic exports (NODX).

LONDON (May 11): Dissenters in the face of the relentless emerging-market rally are speaking out.

HONG KONG / NEW DELHI (May 9): Sanjay Janghala walks across a humming factory floor as 400 employees of Orient Craft Ltd. stitch together women’s blouses and embroidered dresses.

SINGAPORE (April 27): Even with the improvement of US household and business confidence, as indicated by the rebound in consumption-related soft data since the US presidential elections, ABN AMRO Group Economics is mindful that hard data has yet to catch

SINGAPORE (March 29): Indonesia’s economy is losing out on commodity gains after lawmakers wrapped protectionist policies around the nation’s resources. Their next problem: finding a lucrative replacement.

SYDNEY (March 28): South Korean workers' wages are rising faster than those of regional rivals, and the power of the nation's sprawling conglomerates, or chaebols, remains unchecked, highlighting a lack of serious economic reform. Yet manufacturi

(March 27): Brazil’s under-fire meat industry received a major boost as China, Chile and Egypt began lifting restrictions on imports from the Latin American country.

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (March 20): Higher labor costs and stricter regulations keep nudging Eric Li’s glass factory in southeast China toward insolvency, even though his lampshades are on the shelves at Home Depot. President Donald Trump’s threatened tar