Money transfer services will be available through a single ATM card from next year onwards, U Mya Than, non-executive director and former chair of Myanmar Payment Union (MPU), told The Myanmar Times. With a single ATM card issued by any of the 23 local banks under the MPU network, users will be able to perform multiple […]
Read MoreLaos will continue to help register, upgrade nationality status and provide assistance for Lao workers who do not have legal documentation in Thailand. At present, some 158,000 Lao nationals are currently working in Thailand but only 70,000 hold work permits and can be considered to be legally employed. A senior official from the assistance centre […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) will release the third quarter 2017 economic survey of Singapore on Nov 23 at 8am. The report will give the final growth figures for the economy for the July to September quarter, including detailed information on sectoral performance, sources of growth, inflation, employment and productivity. Advance […]
Read More[MANILA] The Philippine economy grew by a faster-than-expected 6.9 per cent in the third quarter from a year earlier, supported by strong industrial output and services, the statistics agency said on Thursday. Economists in a Reuters poll had forecast annual growth of 6.5 per cent in the July-September period, compared with the second quarter’s upwardly […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has asked relevant departments to tackle problems in granting house ownership certificates to overseas Vietnamese to encourage their investment into the real estate market. Statistics of the municipal Department of Construction revealed that only 15 overseas Vietnamese and foreigners were granted house ownership certificates in the […]
Read MoreRepercussions from the slump in the local real estate market have reverberated across the value chain, affecting not just property developers and speculators but businesses involved in facilitating sales and providing brokering services as well. To ride the property boom in 2010, a large number of real estate agencies had opened for business to get […]
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