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Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first 10 months of this year totaled US$5.27 billion, down 28.25 percent year-on-year, the Investment Commission said yesterday. The number of approved cases also fell 23.12 percent from a year earlier to 2,230, it said. The commission attributed the decline to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which put a damper on foreign investment in Taiwan. <strong>PANDEMIC</strong> “COVID-19 continues to affect investment, including business travel...

Vaccine inequality is hurting Asias poor and the rest of the world Vaccine inequality is hurting Asias poor and the rest of the world Posted: Jul 6, 2021 9:31 PM Updated: Jul 6, 2021 9:31 PM Posted By: By Jessie Yeung and Kocha Olarn, CNN Business Crowded factories in Asias manufacturing hubs seemed curiously immune to coronavirus as it spread through most of the world last year. By the end of 2020, Thailand and Vietnam had reported fewer than 200 deaths between them, and Cambodia and Laos di...

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Business Crowded factories in Asia’s manufacturing hubs seemed curiously immune to coronavirus as it spread through most of the world last year. By the end of 2020, Thailand and Vietnam had reported fewer than 200 deaths between them, and Cambodia and Laos didn’t report any at all. But that changed this spring as many parts of Asia battled stubborn Covid-19 outbreaks that have infiltrated factories and other businesses critical to the global supply chain, threatening to...

Vaccine inequality is hurting Asias poor -- and the rest of the world CNN 7 hrs ago By Jessie Yeung, CNN Business © Stringer/Reuters Migrant workers from Myanmar pass their time near their mosquito net tents at Cal-Comp Electronics factory while under quarantine, Phetchaburi, Thailand June 8, 2021. Picture taken June 8, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. Crowded factories in Asias manufacturing hubs seemed curiously immune to coronavirus as it spread through mos...

Cal-Comp Electronics (Thailand) Public Co, an international subsidiary of Taiwan’s Kinpo Electronics, is tapping the loan market for its debut sustainability-linked borrowing as companies and banks continue to push the development of the asset class in Asia.

City Hall is keeping a close watch on the Ratchaprasong and Pratunam areas in Bangkok to prevent the emergence of a new Covid-19 cluster, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

PHETCHABURI: Another 165 new coronavirus infections have been confirmed at a Cal-Comp Electronics factory in Khao Yoi district, pushing the total over the past three weeks past 6,000.

Forced to quarantine at his factory as Covid-19 cases surge in Thailand, migrant worker Hein Thet Zaw has spent the last 10 days sleeping in a tent, trying to ward off hunger with meagre supplies of rice and boiled eggs.

REFILE-Migrant workers face tough quarantine in Thailand as COVID-19 cases surge Reuters 2 hrs ago (Refiles to correct name of province in paragraphs 2 and 11) * Migrant workers forced to quarantine amid third wave * Thousands confined to their workplaces, campaigners say * COVID-19 surge fuels crackdown on undocumented workers By Nanchanok Wongsamuth BANGKOK, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forced to quarantine at his factory as COVID-19 cases surge in Thailand, migrant worker Hein The...

Thousands of migrant workers in Thailand are being isolated in tough conditions in factories and building sites, workers and rights campaigners said on Friday, as the country faces its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic began.