Philippines

SINGAPORE (Jan 29): CapitaLand says its serviced residence business unit, The Ascott, has won contracts to manage four properties with 1,200 units across Malaysia, the Philippines and China.

SINGAPORE (Nov 10): Multi-industry food company QAF saw its earnings fall 62% to $7.5 million for 3Q17 compared to $19.4 million of earnings a year ago on higher costs and expenses.

(Aug 23): The populist leaders of India, Indonesia and the Philippines won office with promises of massive spending to upgrade their nation’s roads, railways and ports. Doing so, the thinking goes, would supercharge economic growth and emulate China’s

SINGAPORE (Aug 1): Nera Telecommunications (NeraTel) has clinched a total of $14.9 million worth of new contracts for both its network infrastructure (NI) and wireless infrastructure network (WIN) business segments.

(July 26): In Manila, the crowded Philippine capital of more than 12 million inhabitants, land that was reclaimed from the sea is selling like hot cakes.

SINGAPORE (June 23): With the Asean-5 looking to improve their global competitiveness in the years ahead, HSBC Global Research is anticipating a regional shift in spending from power and telecoms, to the largely-neglected transport infrastructure segmen

(May 5): For a vivid illustration of why demographics matter so much for economic growth, take a look at the diverging trends in Asia.

SINGAPORE (April 24): Nera Telecommunciations (Neratel) has received contracts of approximately $7.15 million in aggregate in relation to the supply, delivery, installation and maintenance of security application equipment to a telecom operator in the Phi

MANILA (March 14): Efforts to salvage a blockbuster Pacific trade deal are struggling against waning enthusiasm from participants such as Malaysia, lowering expectations for a meeting of officials this week in Chile.

MANILA (Feb 2): It’s been a fast ascent for college dropout Edgar “Injap” Sia, who less than a decade ago was selling barbecue chicken in the Philippines. He now leads the real estate developer with the best stock gains in Asia.