The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), the garment industry’s largest alliance of labour unions and non-governmental organisations, has blamed clothes brands over contributing to garment workers’ low wages. It found that 93 percent of surveyed brands failed to provide evidence that they are paying a living wage to any of their suppliers while 63 percent do […]
Read MoreDeputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak has instructed related parties to set up a new mechanism to enable medium-scale business operators, particularly those in aviation and tourism, to seek a credit line exceeding 500 million baht from the central bank’s soft loan scheme to help them maintain employment. The new instrument is expected to take shape […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE under the People’s Action Party (PAP) in the next five years will see efforts stepped up to transform and grow the economy to make it more innovative and resilient, the party said on Thursday night in the first of two political broadcasts made available to the contenders of this General Election, which is called […]
Read MoreApple and Google are once again under fire over tax avoidance in Vietnam, with none of their revenues from their app markets being retained in the country. However, a new law could soon enable local authorities to take their cut. Local users have been paying sizable amounts of money to acquire and use applications offered […]
Read MoreIndonesia’s headline inflation moderated for the third straight month, led by further easing in food inflation, while core inflation also edged down. The combination of benign price pressures, weak growth and easing downward pressure on the IDR suggests a rate cut by Bank Indonesia this month is on the cards said ANZ Research in a […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The executive branch yesterday stood its ground that the economic stimulus packages proposed by Congress – including the P1.3-trillion ARISE Philippines bill – cannot be funded in the absence of new revenue sources. The House of Representatives passed on third reading last month the Accelerated Recovery and Investments Stimulus for the Economy […]
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