Fifth-generation (5G) technology will help improve the global economy in enormous ways, but improper management and operation could increase economic inequality in the world, Anusorn Tamajai, the director of the Economic and Business Research Centre for Reform at Rangsit University’s Institute of Economics, said.

The latest data has pointed to a further deterioration in manufacturing conditions across Asean at the start of the third quarter, according to the headline IHS Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index.