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Vietnam: Government to revise many decrees to ease businesses

The Hanoitimes – The Government recently required ministries and agencies to rapidly scrutinize and revise decrees under their authority to further simplify cumbersome procedures and unnecessary business conditions hindered the business development. Accordingly, scrutiny results must be reported to the Prime Minister before April 30 this year so that the Government can consider and approve the […]

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ASEAN must be bulwark of free trade

Australia has been an ASEAN dialogue partner since 1974, an acknowledgement of the centrality of ASEAN to the country’s regional security. There have been ASEAN summits with Japan, China, the United States and India but the one   in Sydney this weekend is the first in Australia. The summit comes at a time when leaders in ASEAN […]

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Philippines: Taming inflation

Just before the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released its adjusted February 2018 inflation rate of 3.9 percent using 2012 as the base year, majority of private sector economic analysts were already warning of inflation rising over the roof of the government’s two to four percent estimate. Inflation watchers would have been proven correct if the […]

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