With such a move, customers would now have another six months to recover their business operations. Banks are expected to expand their support for businesses and people in form of debt rescheduling, waiving, and freezing of lending rates for a further six months until June 30, 2022, from the previous deadline of December 31, 2021. […]
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — S&P Global Ratings has downgraded the Philippines’ 2021 gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast to 4.3 percent from an earlier six percent outlook due to the emergence of the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant. The debt watcher said intermittent lockdowns have been weighing on economic activity as the emergence of new variants […]
Read MoreThe Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone Plc (PPSEZ) is working towards a cross-listing in Thailand. If approved, PPSEZ would become the first Cambodian firm to be cross-listed abroad. It would also mark the first time Thai regulators would allow a foreign firm to be traded on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). “We heard about […]
Read MoreFinance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith says there is no need for the government to borrow additional money to combat the pandemic because the existing 500-billion-baht loan is sufficient. On Monday, Bank of Thailand governor Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput said at a press event the government should add at least 1 trillion baht in the economic fight against the […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – Landscape maintenance workers will see their minimum basic wages rise by 6.3 per cent a year on average, over six years, after proposals by a tripartite committee on the landscape industry wage ladder were accepted by the Government on Friday (Aug 20). The wage increases will take effect over six years from July 1, […]
Read MoreCambodia’s “well-strategised and rapidly-executed” Covid-19 vaccination programme are set to underpin economic growth that may top six per cent next year, eclipsing the preponderance of regional and global peers, according to a new report from consulting firm Mekong Strategic Partners Co Ltd (MSP). The rollout of jabs has firmly positioned the Kingdom among the global […]
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