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Singapore remains Asean’s most connected trade hub, but improvements seen elsewhere too

Although Singapore remains the undisputed business hub of Asean a recently released international trade connectivity survey also found rapid improvements in other Asean member states. Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam (along with Mozambique) were highlighted in notes accompanying the latest DHL Global Connectedness Index (GCI 2019) as the five countries globally where international flows were […]

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Cambodia: Electronic goods sales up 30 percent last year

Sales of electronic products in the Kingdom rose sharply last year, a reflection of the increasing purchasing power of Cambodia’s growing middle-class. According to the Singapore office of global research firm GfK, the value of sales of electronic products increased by 27.8 percent in 2018, reaching $413 million. Mobile phones accounted for $282 million of […]

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Indonesia: Government to offer tax incentives for capital market instruments

The government plans to launch a financial deepening program comprising tax incentives for several investment instruments to attract more long-term investors and increase activity in the country’s capital market. The incentives will be available for collective investment instruments, such as infrastructure funds (DINFRA), asset-backed securities (KIK-EBA) and limited participation mutual funds (RDPT). The tax authority […]

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