The state lost more than 480 billion kip through corruption over the past five years, and this directly affected national development and poverty reduction efforts in Laos, the State Inspection Authority (SIA) has said. The SIA uncovered the misappropriation in different sectors due to officials taking bribes and abusing power for their personal gain as […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Asian tourists to Vietnam can make e-payment in VND at SASCO duty-free and retail shops in the internatsional terminal of Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport from January 1, 2018. The Vimo Technology Joint Stock Company (Vimo.vn) and Southern Airport Services Joint Stock Company (SASCO) on December 19 signed a […]
Read MoreThe Airport Rail Link will start its service half an hour sooner to try to tackle overcrowding, Transport Minister Pailin Chuchottaworn said on Thursday. Pailin said he had instructed the Airport Rail Link to start service at 5.30am instead of 6am so that services could accommodate 2,100 more passengers each day. The electric train service […]
Read MoreSUSTAINABILITY reporting among Singapore-listed companies has begun, but more needs to be done in terms of recognising climate change as a financial risk, says a KPMG survey on corporate responsibility (CR) reporting. According to the report, 84 per cent of the largest companies in Singapore are now undertaking CR reporting, faring better than the global […]
Read MoreDEALMAKING in Singapore has increased by 4 per cent in 2017 year-to-date, the highest since 2014, with real estate taking the lead in deal values as Nesta Investment Holdings Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Global Logistic Properties (GLP) gave the sector a boost. This is according to Thomson Reuters’ Singapore M&A (mergers and acquisitions) preliminary review […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s services sector grew at an annual growth rate of 7.2% to 818,311 establishments between 2010 and 2015, the Department of Statistics Malaysia revealed. According to the findings of the Economic Census 2016 for the services sector, sector income grew 8.3% per annum (p.a.) to RM2,004bil over the same five-year period, while value […]
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