NEW DELHI (DataLEADS/ANN) – China attracts the highest number of tourists in the region with a record number of inflow of 59.27 million people in the year 2016. South East Asian region receives the highest number of travellers with China topping the list, according to the World Tourism Organisation report. Tourism has been one of […]
Read MoreSingapore-based LynPay Pte Ltd plans to tap into the apparently large Bitcoin and Ethereum community in Cambodia and offer its LynPay payment solutions. “In Cambodia, lots of people including Chinese hold Bitcoins and Ethereum but they don’t have a way to utilise it. Therefore, we are offering a payment solution that is beneficial to merchants […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Generation Z is estimated to be around 15 million people by 2025, representing approximately 25% of the country’s workforce. Generation Z, born between 1996 and 2005, is already having a marked impact on the consumer landscape in Vietnam given their growing purchasing power while they are years from fully establishing themselves, according to […]
Read MoreJAKARTA: Indonesia’s trade balance unexpectedly swung back to surplus in September as imports and exports grew much slower than expected, data released by the statistics bureau showed yesterday. Indonesia, South-East Asia’s largest economy, reported a trade surplus of US$230mil for September, compared with a US$500mil deficit expected in a Reuters poll. The country revised its trade deficit in August to US$944mil. September imports were worth […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: The gap in income between the rich, middle class and poor in Malaysia has widened since 2008, according to a study by Khazanah Research Institute (KRI). In its “The State of Households 2018” report, the research outfit of sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd noted that the gap in the real average income […]
Read More8-month tally still up 2.4% to $21.2 billion MANILA, Philippines — Personal remittances from overseas Filipinos declined by 1.4 percent to $2.76 billion from the $2.8 billion in August recorded in the same month last year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday. Despite the decline in August, the BSP said the eight-month tally […]
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