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Thailand: Grab rule rollback appeases riders

Grab Thailand’s recent move to ease some rules, including suspending the zoning divide for GrabBike motorcycle taxi service between Bangkok, Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani, demonstrates its push to appease its rider partners to keep them in the fold amid fierce competition, though more needs to be done to cater to partners in its ecosystem, say […]

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Cambodia: Single internet gateway will optimise communications

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has been finalising a draft sub-decree on the country’s National Internet Gateway (NIG), expecting to complete by the end of this year, according to the ministry’s spokesman. The NIG is a single internet gateway system to optimise network management in the country. Ministry spokesman Im Vutha told Khmer Times yesterday the […]

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Vietnam faces lowest growth in 35 years

Economists have predicted the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic could leave Vietnam facing its lowest level of economic growth in 35 years. After 99 days without any new cases of community transmission, a local infection was confirmed in Da Nang on July 25 and the virus has since spread around the country and caused 15 […]

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Philippines: No takers for BSP rediscount facility

MANILA, Philippines — Banks continued to snub the peso rediscounting loan facility of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilpinas (BSP) for the third straight month in July as measures aimed at softening the blow of the pandemic on the economy released much needed liquidity into the financial system. Rediscounting is a BSP credit facility extended to […]

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Indonesia: Gojek launches website to boost digitalization among micro, small businesses

Indonesian ride-hailing decacorn Gojek launched a website on Monday to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) go online. The website, melajubersamagojek.com, provides advice to business owners on which Gojek applications can help them accelerate their digitizational process. “Going digital is not easy if there is only one part of the value chain that is digitalized. […]

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