Housing loans and repayments of those loans in monthly instalments have begun to flourish in Myanmar’s real estate market since the beginning of this year, as more construction companies and real estate developers collaborate with banks to make home ownership more accessible. These days, banks are offering home loans at a specified interest rate and […]
Read MoreThe Bank of Thailand has moved to calm jitters, saying the real estate market is unlike the 1997 financial meltdown and tighter mortgage lending measures are considered “preventive”. “It is similar to preventing a fire when we see smoke,” Wajeetip Pongpech, assistant governor for the financial institutions policy group, said in a statement released on […]
Read MoreSingapore’s core inflation gauge in September missed forecasts and edged down slightly to 1.8 percent from a year earlier due to lower retail inflation, data showed on Tuesday. September’s data comes weeks after Singapore’s central bank tightened monetary policy for the second time this year and announced that inflation is projected to rise in the […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Vietnam’s online marketplace is developed rapidly given by big investments of foreign players, which has helped local consumers access to better quality services at more reasonable prices. Foreign players have so far spent aggressively in the market and even accepted losses to gain top positions. According to the Map of E-commerce in Vietnam […]
Read MoreTourism Minister Arief Yahya says growth in the Indonesian tourist industry may surpass that of Thailand within the next five years. “We can beat ‘Amazing Thailand’ and ‘Malaysia Truly Asia’ ,” Arief said in a discussion at the State Secretariat in Jakarta on Tuesday as reported by kompas.com, arguing that in 2014, Indonesia ranked 70th in the world tourist Industry, but […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is rushing the launch of more automated clearing houses (ACHs) particularly on government transactions as it aims to increase the level of cashless transactions to 20 percent by 2020 from the current level of about one percent. Vicente de Villa III, officer-in-charge of the central bank’s financial technology sub-sector (FTSS), said […]
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