Bloomberg Hong Kong’s exports rebounded in September on the back of a recovering Chinese economy, Financial Secretary Paul Chan said his blog post on Sunday. The city’s third-quarter gross domestic product should show a significant improvement from the two preceding three-month periods, Chan said. Hong Kong’s GDP slumped by about 9% in both the first and second quarters as the ...

Bloomberg Singapore is seeking to reduce the amount of time it takes to regularly check migrant workers for coronavirus infection by piloting the use of antigen rapid tests. For a period of four weeks, a group of 1,000 migrant workers will undergo antigen rapid testing every seven days, the Ministry of Manpower said in a statement. That’s in addition to ...

Bloomberg The Malaysian Estate Owners Association says new virus-related restrictions on palm operations will cause potential losses of as much as 900 million ringgit ($217 million) a month to the oil palm sector in the state of Sabah. If the entire oil palm supply chain in Sabah is constrained by a recent order to operate at 50% capacity, the state ...