SINGAPORE – After years of a gradual shift to e-payments, talk has intensified over moving to a cashless society. Themes include the need to play catch up with some other countries, the way that cash is too easy to use here, and educating users and merchants about e-payments. However, merchants The Straits Times spoke to […]
Read MoreIn the National League for Democracy (NLD) government’s first fiscal year in power local investors made investments amounting to K1.57 trillion while foreigners made investments worth a total of US$7.44 billion in Myanmar, Deputy Minister of Planning and Finance U Set Aung said at the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on August 31. DURING the 2016-17 fiscal year, […]
Read MoreTEMPO.CO, Jakarta – A research conducted by property consultant Savills Indonesia shows that e-commerce and tech companies are now occupying commercial office buildings. The tech companies include fintech companies and software development companies. Savills Indonesia research and consulting department head Anton Sitorus said that most of the companies earlier used houses, house-shops (known as ruko) or small warehouses as […]
Read MoreHANOI — Vietnam’s total revenue from retail sales and services reached VND2.58 quadrillion (US$114.7 billion) in the first eight months of this year, a year on year increase of 10.3 per cent, reported the General Statistics Office (GSO). The figure amounted to an 8.9 per cent increase, excluding the price factor, the highest rise recorded since […]
Read MoreThe Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction plans to take drastic action, with possible deportation, against foreign architects and engineers who are not registered with the ministry through Cambodia’s professional body of architects, said a top ministry official yesterday. Phuoeng Sophean, secretary of state of the ministry and general director of the Board […]
Read MoreThe July manufacturing production index (MPI) rose 3.7% to 109.16, but its growth rate is still slower than the average the index posted in the first seven months of the year. The tepid, but positive, showing was supported by hefty exports over the past few months, according to the Office of Industrial Economics (OIE). The […]
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