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This page contains links to published articles by Elizabeth Pisani in the areas of business and finance. Some of these stories overlap with other categories and can also be found on other pages, including features and favourites. The copyright holder for each story is listed with the full text: where an article has been reprinted, only the original source is given.

 

Hanoi tax on capital gains altered
Asia Times, 26 March 1997, 493 words
Vietnam has announced new rules, including a tax on profits sent overseas, that appear to bedesigned to encourage re-investment in the country and discourage "cowboys" from churning investment licences. ...

New rules unbalance Vietnam advertisers
Asia Times, 19 March 1997, 368 words
Vietnam has issued new regulations that may make it more difficult for foreign companies to advertise their wares. ...

EU calls for Burma trade deal to be scrapped
Reuters News, 00:35, 19 December 1996, 503 words
BRUSSELS, Dec 18 (Reuter) - The European Commission called on Wednesday for special trade benefits for Burma to be scrapped following an investigation into the use of forced labour by the military regime in Rangoon. ...

Caltex rises to Cambodia petrol challenge
Asia Times, 29 May 1996
Talk to companies selling petrol in Cambodia and you will hear tales of fraud, doctoring the product, under-delivery, irrational taxation and margins pared to the bone. It is enough to put off any foreign investor, but apparently it does not. ...

Cambodia hopes rags turn to riches
Asia Times, 21 March 1996
Cambodia's garment industry - practically the country's only industry - is trying to convince Fortress Europe to bend the rules on clothing imports. The country claims it is simply too impoverished to benefit from rules designed to help poor countries sell into Europe's rich markets. ...

Pesticides poisoning Cambodia's earth
Asia Times, 18 March 1996, 1570 words
Recognizing that it has become a dumping ground for pesticide products that no one else wants, Cambodia is drawing up a law to clear out the worst of the poison. ...

Cambodia's top investor scoffs at rumors about a shady past
Asia Times, 12 March 1996, 1250 words
Teng Boonma does things big. He is Cambodia's biggest investor and its biggest taxpayer. Some also believe he is Cambodia's biggest drug dealer. ...

Cambodian telecom must ring changes
Asia Times, 26 Febuary 1996, 843 words
The first hurdle when looking into Cambodia's telecommunications market is trying to reach anyone by phone. Very quickly, the standard messages - "the number you are trying to reach cannot be connected", ...

Firm returns to same factory after absence of 20 years
Asia Times, 8 December 1995, 758 words
Old-timers at Japanese electronics giant Sony may have a sense of deja vu in Vietnam. Two decades after the company left the country it is back in exactly the same factory. ...

Miserable conditions, pitiful wages fuel Asia boom
Reuters News, 11 May 1993, 623 words
HONG KONG, May 11, Reuter - While businessmen boast of Asia's economic success, many of the workers who have helped build it slave away in miserable conditions for pitiful wages. ...

INDONESIAN LABOUR LEADER DISAPPEARS, BELIEVED ARRESTED
Reuters News, 4 June 1991, 494 words
JAKARTA, June 4, Reuter - The leader of Indonesia's free trade union Solidarity was seized by plainclothes men carrying guns on Sunday and has not been heard of since, union activists said on Tuesday. ...

WESTERN NATIONS MUST PUSH INDONESIA TO ALLOW UNIONS - DONOR
Reuters News, 17 May 1991, 573 words
JAKARTA, Reuter - Western nations must speak out about labour abuse in Indonesia and encourage the government to allow free trade unions or the country could be headed for trouble, said the head of a group that will lend Jakarta $4.6 ...

INDONESIA MUST WIPE OUT INEFFICIENCY TO KEEP ECONOMY ON TRACK
Reuters News, 16 May 1991, 665 words
JAKARTA, Reuter - Indonesia's imports are growing much faster than exports, threatening to knock economic growth off track unless subsidies that encourage inefficient industries are abolished, the World Bank said in a confidential report. ...

SUPPRESSION OF POLITICAL DISSENT DETERS DONOR NATIONS
Reuters News, 12 May 1991, 430 words
JAKARTA, May 11, Reuter - Rich nations disapproving of political oppression in the developing world would rather give aid to governments that do not suppress criticism, the head of a powerful group of donors to Indonesia said on Saturday. ...

FRENCH INDUSTRY WILL FIGHT TO STOP JAPANESE SWAMPING ASIA
Reuters News, 8 May 1991, 441 words
JAKARTA, May 8, Reuter - France, determined not to let Japan overrun Southeast Asian economies, will fight to promote investment in Indonesia and its neighbours, French industry minister Roger Fauroux said on Wednesday. ...

TOURISTS WILL HAVE TO PAY MORE FOR THAT UNSPOILED PARADISE
Reuters News, 15 April 1991, 721 words
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, April 15, Reuter - Tourists, reach for your cheque books. The travel industry, environmentalists and officials from developing countries have decided people wanting to visit unspoiled wildernesses will have to pay much ...

TOURISM MUST PROTECT THE ENVIROMENT OR SELF-DESTRUCT
Reuters News, 10 April 1991, 447 words
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, April 10, Reuter - Tourism, by some counts the world's largest industry, has become a double-edged sword threatening the beauty spots it seeks to promote, environmentalists said on Wednesday. ...

INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT ORDERS ACTION AGAINST "ILLEGAL" UNION
Reuters News, 5 April 1991, 335 words
JAKARTA, April 5, Reuter - The Indonesian government has declared Indonesia's new-born independent trade union Solidarity illegal and ordered that steps be taken against it. ...

MONEY BECOMES CHEAPER IN INDONESIA, BUT NOT MUCH
Reuters News, 4 April 1991, 793 words
JAKARTA, Reuter - Money is becoming a little cheaper in Indonesia as banks, bled dry by a central bank drain on the rupiah in February, pull funds back into the system. ...

BANK INDONESIA SELLS TO MARKET, DOLLAR PLUNGES
Reuters News, 5 March 1991, 679 words
JAKARTA, March 5, Reuter - Indonesia's central bank sold dollars actively on the Jakarta market, bringing the U.S, currency tumbling back from the heady levels of early trade. ...

INDONESIA'S SOLIDARITY UNION TAKES PROTEST TO PARLIAMENT
Reuters News, 28 February 1991, 345 words
JAKARTA, Feb 28, Reuter - About 250 members of Indonesia's independent trade union Solidarity took a protest over pay and conditions to parliament on Thursday in the fledgling group's first public demonstration. ...

INDONESIA'S TAX COLLECTORS TALK TOUGH, AND TALK AND TALK
Reuters News, 8 February 1991, 651 words
JAKARTA, Reuter - Indonesia's tax collectors warn they will confiscate the land and assets of shirkers but sceptics doubt the tough talk will be backed by action. ...

INDONESIAN STOCK MARKET PRIVATISATION ON TRACK, MINISTER SAYS
Reuters News, 5 February 1991, 364 words
JAKARTA, Reuter - Indonesia's finance minister said on Tuesday he had reviewed a blueprint for privatising the Jakarta stock exchange and stockbrokers should be invited to apply in the next few weeks to set it up. ...

INDONESIA'S TOURIST BOOM MAY GO BUST, KILLED OFF BY WAR
Reuters News, 30 January 1991, 442 words
JAKARTA, Jan 30, Reuter - Visit Indonesia Year, a festival of tourism that began with much fanfare and high hopes on New Year's Day, is already threatening to go bust, killed off by war in the Gulf 5,000 miles (8,000 km) away. ...

ASIAN STOCK COLUMN - JAKARTA TO CLEAN UP ITS ACT
Reuters News, 7 January 1991, 837 words
JAKARTA, Jan 7, Reuter - The Jakarta stock exchange has a New Year resolution: to clean up its act. "We want a fair market. We don't want any more hanky panky," said Marzuki Usman, chairman of the state body Bapepam which supervises the ...

SUHARTO'S PRE-ELECTION BUDGET KEEPS MONEY UP SLEEVE FOR TREATS
Reuters News, 7 January 1991, 588 words
JAKARTA, Jan 7, Reuter - Indonesia's budget for the year to March 1992, the eve of general elections, spends money where it is most needed and keeps plenty in reserve for pre-election sweeteners under the guise of fighting inflation ...

CLOVE MONOPOLY A SETBACK FOR JAKARTA DEREGULATION
Reuters News, 6 January 1991, 459 words
JAKARTA, Jan 6, Reuter - A new monopoly that puts Indonesia's lucrative clove trade in the hands of President Suharto's son is a sign that the days of deregulation of business in Indonesia may be nearly over, economists say. ...

INDONESIA BUDGET AIMING FOR GROWTH-INFLATION BALANCE
Reuters News, 4 January 1991, 668 words
JAKARTA, Jan 4, Reuter - Indonesia's policy makers are walking an economic tightrope, pulled by pre-election populism on one side and hard-headed pragmatism on the other ...

INVESTING IN INDONESIA? DON'T LOOK AT THE BOOKS
Reuters News, 17 November 1990, 779 words
JAKARTA, Nov 17, Reuter - Impressive figures, say foreign investors flicking through the books of many a company in Indonesia's booming private sector. But are they genuine? ...

INDONESIA'S POORLY PAID ORGANISE FOR RIGHTS
Reuters News, 7 November 1990, 778 words
JAKARTA, Nov 7, Reuter - Indonesian labourers, among the world's worst-paid workers, are organising to fight for their rights. The government is supporting them, at least nominally, but activists say they still risk harassment and dismissal ...

OPEC AND INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES EDGE CLOSER OVER OIL CRISIS
Reuters News, 17 October 1990, 461 words
JAKARTA, Oct 17, Reuter - OPEC, warning of world recession unless industrial countries act to cut soaring oil prices, appeared on Wednesday to have thawed its relations with the West. ...

INDONESIA BANKS HEAD FOR SHAKEOUT AMID TIGHT MONEY
Reuters News, 24 July 1990, 863 words
JAKARTA, July 24, Reuter - Indonesia's banking industry is heading for a shakeout as the central bank squeezes rupiah liquidity in order to curb speculative lending. ...

INDONESIAN INTEREST RATES CLIMB ON RUPIAH SQUEEZE
Reuters News, 5 June 1990, 503 words
JAKARTA, June 5, Reuter - Indonesia's central bank is wringing rupiah out of the market in an effort to stop dollar buying, sending interest rates rocketing. ...

WORLD BANK RECOMMENDS INDONESIA BORROW MORE COMMERCIALLY
Reuters News, 18 May 1990, 442 words
JAKARTA, May 18, Reuter - The Indonesian government will need to borrow more money this year than last but will be able to reduce the proportion it owes to other governments by borrowing more from commercial sources, the World Bank said. ...

KAIFU CUTS INDONESIAN AID PLEDGE TO 1.81 BILLION DOLLARS
Reuters News, 5 May 1990, 375 words
JAKARTA, March 5, Reuter - Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu on Saturday cut this year's pledge of aid to Jakarta by 14 per cent from last year because of dramatic growth in the Indonesian economy, Japanese officials said. ...

NEW JAKARTA STOCK RULES GET MIXED RECEPTION
Reuters News, 4 May 1990, 510 words
JAKARTA, May 3, Reuter - Changes aimed at eliminating long settlement delays for Indonesian stocks will upset small traders but should cheer foreign investors, brokers and officials said. ...

INDONESIAN PENSION FUNDS SHY OF VOLATILE BOURSE
Reuters News, 13 February 1990, 771 words
JAKARTA, FEB 13, Reuter - Indonesia's stock market may be too volatile to absorb billions of dollars sloshing around in the country's fast-expanding pension fund industry, economists and fund managers said. ...

INDONESIAN STATE BANKS CUT LENDING, DEPOSIT RATES
Reuters News, 1 February 1990, 506 words
JAKARTA, Feb 1, Reuter - Indonesia's powerful state banks cut their prime lending rate by three percentage points to 16 per cent on Thursday in a bid to stimulate development investment. ...

JUNGLES, FESTIVALS AND MONEY PUT MALAYSIA ON THE TOURIST MAP
Reuters News, 3 January 1990, 912 words
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3, Reuter - Malaysia kicks off the 1990s with a bang that it hopes will turn into a tourism boom. The decade began with a massive midnight party in the capital to mark the start of Visit Malaysia Year. ...

ASIAN STOCK COLUMN - JAKARTA MARKET GROWING UP
Reuters News, 13 November 1989, 798 words
JAKARTA, NOV 13, Reuter - The Jakarta stock exchange is pausing to draw breath, but analysts say that far from being discouraging the slowdown is a sign the market is growing up. ...

CEMENT ISSUE COULD MAKE OR BREAK JAKARTA MARKET
Reuters News, 30 October 1989, 625 words
JAKARTA, OCT 30, Reuter - Indonesian stockbrokers are jittery about a huge 335 million dollar share issue by a money-losing firm, saying it could make or break Jakarta's tiny market. ...

INDONESIAN STOCKS BOOM -- CAN IT STAY THE COURSE?
Reuters News, 4 September 1989, 777 words
SEPT 4, Reuter - Jakarta's tiny stock market is shooting through the roof, and analysts wonder if its creaky framework of regulations can take the pace. ...

INDONESIANS STRUGGLE WITH THE TAX MAN
Reuters News, 28 July 1989, 828 words
JAKARTA, July 28, Reuter - The Indonesian government is using patriotism and penalties to induce a reluctant populace to pay income tax, but the virtuous few who do pay are still only a tiny part of the workforce. ...

RUMOURS OF RUPIAH FLOAT RATTLE INDONESIA BANKERS
Reuters News, 28 June 1989, 741 words
JAKARTA, JUNE 28, Reuter - Indonesia's bank dealing rooms are awash with rumours the central bank will soon give up its control of the foreign exchange market, and some bankers fear that the rupiah may then take a nosedive. ...

INDONESIA SLASHES RESTRICTIONS ON INVESTMENT
Reuters News, 11 May 1989, 338 words
JAKARTA, May 11, Reuter - Indonesia on Thursday slashed the amount of money foreigners must stump up to invest in the country, and opened up previously restricted industries to new domestic and foreign capital. ...

QUAYLE, UNFAZED BY TRADE CRITICS, PREACHES OPEN MARKETS
Reuters News, 1 May 1989, 393 words
JAKARTA, May 1, Reuter - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, fresh from a visit to Australia where he faced accusations the United States unfairly subsidised its wheat exports, on Monday preached free markets and an end to trade barriers. ...

PROGRESS ON INDIA'S INVESTMENT "FAST TRACK" MAY BE SLOW
Reuters News, 8 July 1988, 886 words
NEW DELHI, July 8, Reuter - India is being nudged gently into opening up an investment "fast track" to make life easier for foreign businessmen, but diplomats and economists say political constraints may keep progress slow. ...

 

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