As a leading financial newspaper run by Japanese media giants Nikkei Inc., Nikkei Asia have stated that, “Southeast Asia’s growth leader in 2021 may well be Vietnam”, during a recent article detailing ASEAN’s GDP forecasts for the year ahead. According to Nikkei, the country recorded economic growth of 2.9% last year due to its success […]
Read MorePos Malaysia Bhd is offering its employees new income-generating opportunities to earn a better living. This is being done through the company’s Entrepreneurship Programme (EP) which allows their delivery personnel to become their business partners in the last-mile delivery of parcels and mail. As of January 2021, a total of 798 delivery partners were working […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE will need 1.2 million additional digital workers by 2025 – a 55 per cent increase from today’s levels – to remain competitive, according to a new report commissioned by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This translates to 23.8 million digital skill trainings from 2020 to 2025, said the report, which noted that digitally skilled workers […]
Read MoreAccording to a study by London-based economic think tank, The New Economics Foundation (NEF), buying produce at a local farmers market or community supported agriculture programme, versus from a supermarket, leads to around double the money spent remaining in the community. “That means those purchases are twice as efficient in terms of keeping the local […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The ongoing shift to a cash-light from a cash-heavy economy could accelerate the recovery of the country from a pandemic-induced recession, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). In a virtual press briefing, BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno said an empirical study showed that moving to a cashless model would have an […]
Read MoreVery few apartments priced at below VND25 million per square meter in HCM City exist, according to Ministry of Construction (MOC). MOC, in its report about the real estate market in 2020, pointed out that apartment prices increased in the fourth quarter in 2020 and for the entire year of 2020. The prices of low-cost, […]
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