MANILA, Philippines — The government has so far secured $7.76 billion in loans and grants from foreign lenders to finance measures that address the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. Based on a report posted on the DOF’s website, the government has raised a total of $7.63 billion in […]
Read MoreMyanmar has moved to protect local producers from overseas competition as growth projections for the country’s economy are slashed due to COVID-19. The President Office released notification (83/2020) on July 1, stating that the Law of Protection from Increased Import Volume enacted in 2019 will take immediate effect. The law is expected to promote protection […]
Read MoreSHAMPOO sales alone made up half of Indonesia’s 17.3 trillion rupiah (US$1.2 billion) haircare product market in 2019. And shampoo products are tipped to hit their peak market share in Indonesian by 2024, when the haircare market could be worth 25 trillion rupiah in all. Indonesians’ per capita consumption of shampoo products was higher than […]
Read MoreThe Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), the garment industry’s largest alliance of labour unions and non-governmental organisations, has blamed clothes brands over contributing to garment workers’ low wages. It found that 93 percent of surveyed brands failed to provide evidence that they are paying a living wage to any of their suppliers while 63 percent do […]
Read MoreDeputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak has instructed related parties to set up a new mechanism to enable medium-scale business operators, particularly those in aviation and tourism, to seek a credit line exceeding 500 million baht from the central bank’s soft loan scheme to help them maintain employment. The new instrument is expected to take shape […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE under the People’s Action Party (PAP) in the next five years will see efforts stepped up to transform and grow the economy to make it more innovative and resilient, the party said on Thursday night in the first of two political broadcasts made available to the contenders of this General Election, which is called […]
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