Thailand welcomed 20,272 foreign tourists in October, up from 1,201 foreign arrivals in the same period a year earlier, government data showed, due to a pilot tourism programme on the islands of Phuket and Samui. The scheme was launched ahead of the country’s wider quarantine-free reopening on Nov 1, aimed at restarting the important tourism […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Twenty-six business groups are asking the government to allow the private sector to use their large stockpile of vaccines as booster shots for employees to prevent wasting jabs and a resurgence in infections. “We no longer have a shortage, and with such as large stockpile, we risk having vaccines expire and go to waste,” the […]
Read MoreThe baht opened at 33.05 to the US dollar on Tuesday, weakening from Monday’s closing rate of 32.88. The Thai currency is likely to move between 32.85 and 33.05 to the greenback during the day, Krungthai Bank market strategist Poon Panichpibool predicted. Poon said that the baht might strengthen as foreign investors are buying Thai […]
Read MoreThe rapid development of the digital world does not only make life easier for people to communicate, work and run a business, but also opens the door to a new investment frontier — digital assets. The world has encountered a variety of buzzwords over recent years, such as cryptocurrency, non-fungible token (NFT), decentralised finance (DeFi) […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – Expecting the global Great Resignation phenomenon to play out in full next year, employers in Singapore are reverting salary increments and payroll budgets to near pre-pandemic levels in a bid to hold on to their employees, as well as fill vacancies next year. Publishing its Mercer’s 2021 Total Remuneration Survey last Wednesday (Nov […]
Read MoreMALAYSIA’S retail sales have yet to recover to pre-Covid levels at the aggregate level, though categories such as food and consumer electronics have outperformed, Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research said in a Nov 19 report, while also noting “evidence that Covid-19 has accelerated the formalisation of the retail market in Malaysia”. In the […]
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