The first three months of the year have witnessed more local businesses beef up their mergers and acquisitions efforts in order to scale up operations. In January, seafood processing company Vinh Hoan Corporation scooped up 51.29 per cent stake in Sa Giang Import Export Corporation. The company spent nearly $15.2 million buying 3.56 million shares […]
Read MoreAll bars, pubs karaoke houses and massage palours in 41 provinces have been ordered to shut their doors for two weeks from midnight Friday, as the latest coronavirus outbreak gains momentum nationwide. Taweesilp Visanuyothin, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration spokesman, announced on Friday all entertainment places in the targeted provinces must close until April […]
Read MoreNEW condominium launches continued to drive demand in the secondary market in February. Resale prices rose by 1 per cent in the month, climbing for the seventh straight month in Singapore. Year on year, overall resale prices advanced 4.4 per cent, flash figures from real estate portal SRX Property showed on Wednesday. Property analysts from […]
Read MoreThe cabinet has turned down a proposal from the Tourism and Sports Ministry to extend the fraud-plagued Rao Tiew Duay Kan (We Travel Together) scheme scheduled to end on April 30. Instead, the Tourism and Sports Ministry and Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) were instructed to redesign the programme in order to prevent fraudulent practices or […]
Read MoreJAKARTA: Three out of four Indonesian households experienced an income reduction last year as breadwinners either lost jobs, switched to informal jobs or closed businesses during the pandemic while government assistance for small businesses remained limited, a recent survey has found. The majority of the affected households were located in urban areas and had school-aged […]
Read MorePRIVATE-SECTOR watchers have raised estimates for full-year growth, even though the economy is still expected to stay underwater in the first quarter. Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) may grow by 5.8 per cent in 2021, before cooling to 3.8 per cent in 2022, according to the results of the latest quarterly survey from the Monetary […]
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