MANILA, Philippines — Revenues from tobacco products fell two percent in 10 months to October this year, as pandemic restrictions hindered the conduct of raids against makers and distributors of illicit cigarettes. Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) director Beverly Milo yesterday said tobacco industry revenues dipped to P185.74 billion in 10 months from P190.33 billion […]
Read MoreIn only four years, the rate of Vietnamese using services of Fintech companies has increased from 16% to 56%. Finance and banking is one of the fields experiencing the strongest digital transformation process, said Bruce Deltiel, Managing Director of McKinsey & Company Vietnam during a recent talk held by the Central Economic Commission and IEC. […]
Read MoreThailand welcomed 20,272 foreign tourists in October, up from 1,201 foreign arrivals in the same period a year earlier, government data showed, due to a pilot tourism programme on the islands of Phuket and Samui. The scheme was launched ahead of the country’s wider quarantine-free reopening on Nov 1, aimed at restarting the important tourism […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Twenty-six business groups are asking the government to allow the private sector to use their large stockpile of vaccines as booster shots for employees to prevent wasting jabs and a resurgence in infections. “We no longer have a shortage, and with such as large stockpile, we risk having vaccines expire and go to waste,” the […]
Read MoreThe baht opened at 33.05 to the US dollar on Tuesday, weakening from Monday’s closing rate of 32.88. The Thai currency is likely to move between 32.85 and 33.05 to the greenback during the day, Krungthai Bank market strategist Poon Panichpibool predicted. Poon said that the baht might strengthen as foreign investors are buying Thai […]
Read MoreThe rapid development of the digital world does not only make life easier for people to communicate, work and run a business, but also opens the door to a new investment frontier — digital assets. The world has encountered a variety of buzzwords over recent years, such as cryptocurrency, non-fungible token (NFT), decentralised finance (DeFi) […]
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