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  Bloomberg Malaysia will have to present the new spending plan for 2023 to parliament by the first quarter of next year, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said. He said this as he tabled a special allocation involving 107.7 billion ringgit ($24 billion) in the House of Representatives. Anwar, who doubles as finance minister, said the bill was for the purpose ...

  Bloomberg Thailand, the world’s biggest rice exporter after India, is on track to ship the highest volume in four years as importing countries boost purchases to replenish stockpiles and keep a lid on food inflation. Exports will probably climb to 8 million tons this year as a weak currency boosts competitiveness and countries such as China look to rebuild ...

  Bloomberg South Korea’s early trade data showed an export-slump persisting in December in the face of stiffening global economic headwinds. Shipments decreased 8.8% in the first 20 days of the month compared with a year earlier, the customs office said on Wednesday. That compares with a 14% drop for the full month of November. The country posted a $6.43 ...

Bloomberg Volkswagen AG is requiring employees at one of its factories in southern China to work extended hours to compensate for production losses after staff came down sick with Covid, a person familiar with the matter said, as a wave of infections snakes across the country. The German carmaker has arranged for staff in several workshops at a plant it ...

  Bloomberg The drive to launch new carbon exchanges in Asia has reached new heights with Malaysia entering the fray, raising questions about how many will survive in a market that could be worth hundreds of billions in a few decades. Bursa Malaysia Bhd opened an exchange this month, joining more than a dozen that are under way or planned ...

  Bloomberg India’s unemployment rate in December climbed to its highest point since a nationwide pandemic lockdown, as the country struggles to produce enough jobs to absorb a growing workforce. The joblessness rate in the first three weeks of December was over 8% of the available labour force, Mahesh Vyas, head of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt Ltd, ...

  Bloomberg China confirmed it’s narrowed how it defines a Covid death, adding weight to speculation that its strikingly low official tally is hiding the true picture of the chaos unleashed by this month’s abrupt pandemic pivot. The country will only count people who tested positive for Covid and died of respiratory failure as official virus deaths, Wang Guiqiang, a ...

  Bloomberg India’s biggest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, said government levies put vehicles beyond the reach of much of the population, adding to criticism of the country’s tax regime from Tesla Inc and Toyota Motor Corp. “Government policies are such that they treat cars as luxury products that need to be heavily taxed,” Maruti Chairman RC Bhargava said at ...

  Bloomberg Taiwan’s export orders plummeted by the most since the height of the global financial crisis more than a decade ago, a sign of worsening global demand for technology products. Overseas orders to Taiwanese firms fell 23.4% in November from a year earlier, according to a statement from the Economics Ministry. That was almost double the 12.8% drop economists ...

  Bloomberg After the worst year for initial public offerings (IPO) in Hong Kong since the financial crisis, bankers and analysts expect a recovery in listings in the Asian financial hub as China moves forward with reopening plans. Proceeds raised in the city totalled $12.9 billion in 2022, down 70% versus last year, outpacing the 29% contraction in the Asia ...