A committee evaluating the easing of lockdown measures has proposed extending the opening hours of shopping malls and shortening the curfew period next month, according to a source at Wednesday’s National Security Council (NSC) meeting. The next stage of the loosening of the coronavirus lockdown could happen if the kingdom continues to record low numbers […]
Read MoreBEIJING – China will soon relax its border controls for Singapore and several countries, allowing certain categories of people to travel to some cities. Chinese state media on Wednesday (May 27) reported that the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) will let domestic and foreign airlines apply for “green channels” for chartered flights to airports in the […]
Read MoreThe e-payments space has been one to watch during the past 10 years in Myanmar, with Onepay’s interbank app being the most recent innovation to reach the market. Launched earlier this month, Onepay’s mobile platform allows users to transfer funds among seven local institutions – Asia Green Development Bank (AGD Bank), Ayeyarwady Bank (AYA Bank), […]
Read MoreECONOMIC activity has begun to recover in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand as Covid-19 lockdowns are lifted, said Maybank Kim Eng economists in a May 27 report. Vietnam was the first Asean country to start unwinding lockdown measures on April 23, followed by Thailand and Malaysia in early May. The Philippines began loosening measures on May […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The Philippines booked a 12.1 percent hike in net inflow of long-term investments to $657 million in January from $586 million in the same month last year prior to the full-blown global coronavirus outbreak, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). The central bank said the increase in foreign direct investments […]
Read MoreVietnam plans to enact a law to fight against the transfer pricing tax in an effort to enforce transfer pricing rules more aggressively, according to Cao Anh Tuan, general director of the General Department of Taxation (GDT). VEPR (the Vietnam Institiute for Economic and Policy Research), in its research on the behaviors of FIEs of […]
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