Essential travel entry from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia will be open for consideration beginning on November 1, said Minister of Home Affairs Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia (Dr) Haji Awang Abu Bakar bin Haji Apong at the daily press conference yesterday. The decision was made by the COVID-19 […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S economic growth in 2022 is expected to be slower than in 2021, but still above trend, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said in its latest Macroeconomic Review on Thursday (Oct 28). While the MAS did not put a number to “above-trend growth”, private-sector economists generally see Singapore’s pre-Covid trend growth as being somewhere […]
Read MoreThe government has been urged to simplify money transfers and provide more medical staff to support wealthy pensioners if the country wants to boost the economy through foreign property ownership. Atip Bijanonda, vice-chairman of the Board of Trade of Thailand, said money transfer procedures for foreigners buying condos was currently a tremendous obstacle as the […]
Read MoreThe government is planning to expand minimum wage negotiations to more sectors, probably after the next parliamentary election in 2023, according to Heng Sour, secretary of state at the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. Sour has been in charge of the annual talks for nine years. Speaking at a conference organised by the International […]
Read MoreManila, philippines — The economy is showing concrete signs of recovery from the pandemic, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin Diokno said. In a virtual forum yesterday, Diokno said the accelerated vaccination rollouts, granular lockdowns and the continued implementation of health safety protocols “have allowed the Philippine economy to gradually reopen and for workers […]
Read MoreThe inflationary pressure, however, is huge for 2022 amid the deepening energy crisis and the hoarding of strategic goods by some countries. From now until the end of 2021, the consumer price index (CPI) is expected to expand by 2%, as such, Vietnam is fully on track to realize the goal of keeping the inflation […]
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