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Thailand: Cross-border volume down

Thailand’s cross-border trade, including transit trade, fell by 4.88% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2020, spurred on by the pandemic and the slowing economy. The Commerce Ministry’s Foreign Trade Department reported on Wednesday that overall border and transit trade totalled 968.87 billion baht, with Malaysia registering as the biggest partner by value and […]

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Malaysia: Unchanged OPR good for banks

PETALING JAYA: Bank Negara’s decision to keep the overnight policy rate (OPR) unchanged at 1.75% is positive for banks. It would provide a reprieve for banks’ net interest margin (NIM) – a measure of the difference between interest paid and interest received. Banks are already facing pressure on the bottomline from the 125-basis-point (bps) cut […]

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Myanmar: RTAD to ease rules for expired vehicle license and driver’s license

Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD) announced that it will ease fines and other fees for overdue or expired vehicle licenses and driver’s licenses since the operations of the department have been suspended during the pandemic.  The department will relax initial registration, overdue fines, and extension of vehicle licenses and driver’s licenses during the suspension of […]

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