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Thailand: Depa unveils national food delivery app

The Digital Economy Promotion Agency (Depa) has launched food delivery platform eatsHUB to help small and medium-sized eateries boost their earnings through digital channels. The platform has been created in collaboration with Food Ordery, an affiliated company of SET-listed TV Direct. Touted as Thailand’s first national food delivery platform, eatsHub charges vendors a commission fee, […]

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Singapore home rents reach record highs

Rents for Singapore’s private apartments and Housing Development Board flats surged to record highs last month, according to local media, and expectations are that they will keep rising. Condominium rents climbed 2.3% in April from a month earlier to surpass their previous peak reached in January 2013, while those for HDB flats increased 1.9% to […]

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Thailand: The disappearing hotel

After a full two years of idling rooms, dwindling guest numbers and shrinking services, hotels across Asia are turning on the fairy lights once again. But returning guests gratefully collapsing at the altar of five-star devotion would do well to examine the miracles of 2022 with a healthily jaundiced eye. As with the nouvelle cuisine […]

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Philippines: T-bond yields spike on inflation worries

MANILA, Philippines — Yields for medium-term government bonds have gone above market pricing two days after the elections, with investors wary that inflation will haunt even the next administration. The Bureau of the Treasury yesterday borrowed just P25.1 billion of the offered P35 billion in reissued 10-year Treasury bonds (T-bonds), with a remaining life of […]

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