Online food delivery operators have seen a substantial growth of orders during the third wave of the pandemic, surging between 26% and 60% from earlier in the year, as more people eat at home. Major mobile operators are riding this wave, enabling subscribers to redeem points for discounts on online food orders. Shri Chakravarthy, country […]
Read MoreCambodia’s garment product exports contracted in the first quarter financial period as hundreds of factories remained closed temporarily because of COVID-19 in Phnom Penh and Takmao city, Kandal province. The Kingdom’s exports of clothes, footwear, and travel goods were valued at $2.4 billion in the first quarter of 2021, a 10 percent decrease compared with […]
Read MorePhilippine headline inflation likely picked up in April after hitting a two-month low in March, analysts polled by The Manila Times said. Projections for the month ranged from 4.5 to 4.8 percent with a 4.6-percent average, slightly higher than the 4.5 percent recorded in March. Inflation in April last year settled at 2.2 percent. The […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: The government should consider implementing a windfall tax on industries that benefit greatly from the COVID-19 crisis, according to Khazanah Research Institute senior advisor Professor Dr Jomo Kwame Sundaram. “This is precisely the time when you must reform taxes, as you have it (windfall tax) all the time amid extraordinarily high petroleum prices […]
Read MoreAFP – Asian markets mostly fell yesterday following a soft lead from Wall Street, hit by profit-taking and lingering inflation worries. With bourses closed in Japan and China for holidays most of the week, traders were easing back from their recent buying frenzy while there are also concerns that the more than year-long rally may have […]
Read MoreThe global cybersecurity company Kaspersky has reported a significant decrease in the number of ransomware attempts it detected and foiled last year among small and medium enterprise (SME) users in Southeast Asia. The company monitored 804,513 ransomware events in 2020, down 58% from the 2019 total of 1.9 million, according to the latest Kaspersky Security […]
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