Vietnam is to resume flights between countries that have been free of Covid-19 cases for 30 days, with Laos in a list of priority destinations. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stated on Tuesday that flights to and from priority destinations will be allowed to resume, according to a report by Reuters. Destinations cited by the […]
Read MoreThe Thai Travel Agents Association (TTAA) aims to attract 1 million outbound tourists who booked tour packages over Songkran but failed to use them because of the pandemic to travel domestically instead, in hopes of raising 20 billion baht in tourism revenue. TTAA president Thanapol Cheewarattanaporn said that if the government lets people travel domestically […]
Read MoreAlthough economic growth for Myanmar is forecast to slow to 1.5 percent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this could rebound to 6pc by 2021, according to the World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects 2020 report released on June 8. The economy grew 6.3pc in 2019. The slowdown is a result of domestic shutdowns, reduced […]
Read MoreRecipients of funds and training under the government’s preemployment card may not be able to practice the skills they learn through the program because the labor market has not recovered, experts say. Tadjudin Nur Effendi, an expert on labor issues from Gajdah Mada University in Yogyakarta, said the ongoing transition toward the so-called new normal, […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – While FDI firms continue to report losses, they keep expanding operations in the country. Transfer pricing among foreign-invested firms operating in Vietnam is increasing at an alarming rate, evidenced by the fact that while foreign-invested companies report losses, the majority of their Vietnamese peers in the same fields are generating profits, especially in […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — A record pullback in both imports and exports dramatically shrank the Philippines’ trade gap to the lowest in more than five years in April as a shutdown of economies to stem the spread of coronavirus infections inadvertently strangled the flow of goods. Trade deficit narrowed to $499 million in April, 86.9% down […]
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