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Takings rise 16% year on year for Singapore’s services industries in Q3

SINGAPORE’S services industries saw business receipts rise 16 per cent year on year for the third quarter, according to Department of Statistics (Singstat) figures on Friday (Nov 26). Business receipts were also up 4.8 per cent on a quarter-to-quarter non-seasonally adjusted basis. However, Singstat’s business receipts index excludes wholesale trade, retail trade, and accommodation and […]

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Philippines: ADB urges faster work on regional tax hub

MANILA, Philippines — The Asian Development Bank has called on governments in Asia-Pacific to speed up progress on the tax hub to address debt problems and inequality hounding most countries. ADB said this would also improve domestic resource mobilization (DRM) or the process through which countries raise and spend their own funds to provide for […]

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Vietnam: Who dominates the e-commerce markets in Q3?

Three e-commerce platforms are the most popular multi-vendor ones across Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. Shopee, a Singapore-based company, has taken hold of most of the market share in term of website traffic across three countries Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. According to the latest iPrice study with data from SimilarWeb, in Vietnam, Shopee obtained 57% of the […]

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Cambodian pepper prices expected to rise next year

The price of Cambodia’s pepper  is expected to increase to 20,000 riel ($5) per kilogram next year, thanks to the recovery of global economies. The price of non-geographical indicator (GI) pepper was down to below $2.5 per kg in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit countries to close down the economy-related sector, said Mak Ny, […]

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