The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution that will see the graduation of Laos from the least developed country category. Laos, along with Bangladesh and Nepal, will officially graduate from the least developed country (LDC) category after the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the three nations yesterday. According to a statement by the […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S services industries saw business receipts rise 16 per cent year on year for the third quarter, according to Department of Statistics (Singstat) figures on Friday (Nov 26). Business receipts were also up 4.8 per cent on a quarter-to-quarter non-seasonally adjusted basis. However, Singstat’s business receipts index excludes wholesale trade, retail trade, and accommodation and […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The Asian Development Bank has called on governments in Asia-Pacific to speed up progress on the tax hub to address debt problems and inequality hounding most countries. ADB said this would also improve domestic resource mobilization (DRM) or the process through which countries raise and spend their own funds to provide for […]
Read MoreThree e-commerce platforms are the most popular multi-vendor ones across Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. Shopee, a Singapore-based company, has taken hold of most of the market share in term of website traffic across three countries Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. According to the latest iPrice study with data from SimilarWeb, in Vietnam, Shopee obtained 57% of the […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia is poised to end the week on a fourth consecutive day of selling as market sentiment remains week amid the ongoing results season. “We believe the softer trading activities might be due to the spiking in Covid-19 cases locally and the release of weaker-than-expected results during this reporting season due to […]
Read MoreThe price of Cambodia’s pepper is expected to increase to 20,000 riel ($5) per kilogram next year, thanks to the recovery of global economies. The price of non-geographical indicator (GI) pepper was down to below $2.5 per kg in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit countries to close down the economy-related sector, said Mak Ny, […]
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