SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Law and Finance Indranee Rajah said the government is looking at widening levies on e-commerce to broaden its tax base. In an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday (Nov 21), Ms Indranee named e-commerce as one area that would allow Singapore to further diversify its tax base. […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Filipinos’ total wealth declined in 2017, according to a report by Credit Suisse that also shows slightly increasing wealth inequality in the country. The Swiss bank’s annual global wealth report revealed the Philippines’ total wealth depleted to $593 billion in 2017, lower than 2016’s $607 billion. Credit Suisse uses three components to […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – It is expected that the Vietnam’s economy will continue the trend of sustainable development in the mid term, while GDP in 2017 is expected to reach 6.3% and continues growing in range from 6.4% – 6.8% in 2018. Vietnam’s economy in the first 10 months of 2017 has been growing in various fields. […]
Read MoreThe capital’s listed port operator, Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), reported that for the first nine months of this year, total revenue increased by 14.5 percent to $14 million while net profit surged by 23.6 percent to $4 million compared to the same period last year, the company said in a filing on the Cambodia […]
Read MoreA tripartite meeting held in Vientiane recently agreed to increase the minimum wage from the present 900,000 kip to 1.2 million kip a month, a senior official has confirmed. The meeting brought together representatives from the Lao Federation of Trade Unions (LFTU), the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and the Lao National Chamber of […]
Read MoreUse of online and mobile banking is on the rise, giving banks an opportunity to use customer data and digital transformation to enhance the customer experience, says Marketbuzzz, an online survey unit of Buzzebees, a mobile commerce platform. Marketbuzzz partnered with Potentiate, a data technology company, to monitor the banking industry, evaluating the customer experience […]
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