KUALA LUMPUR: The Employees Provident Fund has launched its i-Invest online platform, which allows members to make informed investments in unit trust funds offered by EPF-approved fund management institutions (FMI). According to a statement, the platform allows members to monitor their investment funds through their i-Akaun and look up information on cost of investment, historical […]
Read MoreEconomic growth sharply slowed in the second quarter to 2.3 per cent due to both external and domestic factors, according to a state think-tank report released today( August 19). Gross domestic product in the second quarter expanded by 2.3 per cent, a drop from the 2.8-per-cent growth rate in the first quarter, said the economic […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – Singapore has emerged as the third most robust data centre market worldwide in a global ranking of 38 countries, and the only mature data centre market in South-east Asia, according to a report released by property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield on Monday (Aug 19). As compared to 2017, its ranking jumped four spots […]
Read MoreBUSINESSES located in some of Manila’s offices, hotels and casinos could lose their investment incentives over the next five years as the Philippines looks to overhaul its corporate taxation. Under a new bill, the government wants to phase out its current set of tax perks, among South-east Asia’s most generous, and businesses will have to […]
Read MoreIndonesian President Joko Widodo said on Friday he would press on with plans to move the nation’s capital and roll out measures to kickstart Southeast Asia’s biggest economy as it feels the sting of slowing global growth. Widodo asked parliament to sign off on a plan for a new capital in Borneo, shifting Indonesia’s political […]
Read MoreTwo months of increasingly chaotic protests in Hong Kong are driving investment money out of the city and into Thailand’s ultra-luxury condominiums, according to one of the biggest developers in the Southeast Asian country. Some 40% of the condos in a 52-story Bangkok tower that opened last week have already been sold to buyers from […]
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