MANILA, Philippines — Removing the quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice imports would bring several benefits to the economy, such as lower rice prices and poverty reduction, the Department of Finance (DOF) said yesterday. In his latest economic bulletin, Finance Undersecretary and chief economist Gil Beltran said lifting the QR on rice, in favor of imposing […]
Read MoreThe country’s costliest land based on the Treasury Department’s new appraisal prices, effective from Jan 1, 2018, is on Silom Road at 1 million baht per square wah, while the cheapest is in Khok Charoen district, Lop Buri, where each sq w is worth a mere 20 baht. The lowest priced plot in Bangkok is […]
Read MoreIt was once Phnom Penh’s first shopping mall, and now the revamped Sorya Center Point has had a $5 million renovation and its owners say it is now a Khmer-foreign mixed mall with new strategies to attract customers and tourists. The mall first opened in 2003 and was one of the most popular among young […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE: Singapore’s central bank on Tuesday said it had permanently barred Yeo Jiawei, a former wealth manager of Swiss bank BSI involved in breaches related to Malaysia’s 1MDB fund, from managing financial services firms and advisory activities. In July, a Singapore court jailed Yeo for 4½ years for money laundering and cheating in a case linked […]
Read MoreYunnan province, China: — Laos is strengthening cooperation with China and the Mekong countries by supporting the five-year strategic plan from 2018-2023 which was approved at last week’s 3rd Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers’ meeting. A Lao delegation attended the meeting held in Dali, southwest China’s Yunnan province, from December 14-16, led by Minister of Foreign […]
Read MoreNew business registrations in November rose 14% year-on-year to 6,597 – the highest monthly registration in a decade. The combined value of investment capital of the new businesses registered last month was 64.46 billion baht, up 328% from the same month in 2016. Kulanee Issadisai, the director-general of Business Development Department, said the top three […]
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