The digital economy is booming in Southeast Asia. With 350 million digital consumers, the region is set to leapfrog China, outpacing the latter with a growth rate that is 1.6 times higher and becoming the fastest-growing digital economy in Asia-Pacific. According to research conducted by Bain & Company and Meta, the parent of Facebook, 78% […]
Read MoreThe baht opened at 33.58 to the US dollar on Monday, strengthening from Friday’s close of 33.63 and reversing a downward trend. The Thai currency is expected to move between 33.45 and 33.65 during the day and between 33.30 and 33.80 during the week, Krungthai market strategist Poon Panichpibool said. Poon advised investors to be […]
Read MoreA Cambodian-American author Allen Dodgson Tan, who came to Cambodia 12 years ago, launched a book, Essential Cambodia, on Saturday at SOSORO Museum, Phnom Penh, to help foreign entrepreneurs, investors and managers. Tan said he wrote the book after holding more than 20 interviews with successful foreign and local business people and countless conversations with those […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — New York-based think tank Global Source Partners Inc. expects Philippine inflation to breach five percent in the second quarter and remain elevated for the rest of 2022. In a commentary, former finance undersecretary Romeo Bernardo, country analyst at Global Source, said the consumer price index may continue to accelerate due to soaring […]
Read MoreAccording to the World Economic Forum’s rankings, Vietnam’s gender equality ranking has been falling since 2006, from 65th to 77th in 2018 and 87th in 2021. Quickly placing her sleeping child on the bed, Mrs. Le Minh Thuy Vy, 23, in Tan Binh district in Ho Chi Minh City rushed to clean up the room […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE: After 18 months under what he felt were stifling restrictions in Singapore, German hospitality professional Andre Alexy decided to leave the republic in July last year for a plum position in Dubai. The role, as food and beverage (F&B) operations manager at Atlantis The Royal, and the chance to be part of an opening […]
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