THE INCREASING quantity of remittances sent back home by overseas Vietnamese over the past few years has helped the country offset its trade deficit, reduce poverty and improve recipients’ living standards. Currently, nearly 4.5 million Vietnamese people are living and working in over 100 countries and territories around the world. In 2000, Vietnamese expatriates sent […]
Read MoreLYCAMOBILE AND ENABLING ASIA TECH IN APPROACHES TO STATE FIRM BRITISH COMPANY Lycamobile and Enabling Asia Tech from Malaysia have approached state telecoms company TOT on possible partnership deals, said Rungsun Channarukul, TOT’s senior executive vice president for the mobile unit. Lycamobile wants to be the state agency’s MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) partner, while […]
Read MoreBID TO MEET HIGH DEMAND IN GLOBAL MARKET AND TO ALSO BOOST THE INCOME OF GROWERS WITH RISING global concerns about health and ageing societies, the Commerce Ministry has decided to promote Thai herbs internationally with the aim of increasing farmers’ income. Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn said that as the government had a policy to […]
Read MoreUnions are welcome, and could help garment factories improve their corporate social responsibility functions, a leading manufacturer has said. U Aung Myo Hein, central executive committee member of Myanmar Garment Manufacturers’ Association, told The Myanmar Times that many factories in Myanmar had missed out on the global shift toward increasing social compliance over the past […]
Read MoreUnless lenders can help make housing more widely available through instalment plans 10 years or longer the property market will remain weak this year, say Yangon developers, but banks show little sign of being willing to extend their financing schemes. The commercial capital’s property market has been lacklustre for years, but demand is clearly stronger […]
Read MoreThe Ministry of Finance is re-inspecting and clearly defining sources of national revenue to enable the country to accomplish its 2017 target for revenue collection. The scheme is in line with the instructions given by Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mr Somdy Duangdy, aiming to swell national revenue […]
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