With continued growth, Cambodia’s finance sector aims for stability The Kingdom’s financial sector continued to expand robustly during the first half of this year with outstanding loans and deposits increasing compared to the same period […]
Analysts: Construction job flows to pick up again in 2H17 The momentum on contract awards and job flows in the construction sector is expected by analysts to pick up again in the second half of […]
Industry leaders respond to Singapore’s new cybersecurity bill Singapore’s Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) and the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) recently proposed a Cybersecurity Bill, which is open for public feedback from 10 July […]
Government clarifies exemptions for minimum tax Nearly a year after the government announced that it would consider scrapping the controversial and burdensome 1 percent minimum tax obligation that is paid on monthly revenue flows, the […]
Malaysian realty player Aspen Group launches Catalist IPO, targets $26.8m raise Malaysia-based property development group Aspen Holdings Limited – which develops affordable residential and mixed development properties for middle-income mass market purchasers – has launched […]
NUS-Redas property sentiment index at its highest since Q1 2010 PROPERTY market sentiment continues to improve, going by the latest reading of the quarterly sentiment index published by the developers’ body and the National University […]
Rubber exports bounce higher Cambodian rubber exports surged 37 percent during the first half of the year, compared to the same period in 2016, as the Kingdom’s rising harvest capacity coincided with firmer global demand […]
Malaysian ports’ prospects to remain healthy RAM Rating Services Bhd (RAM Ratings) expects the container- and cargo-handling prospects of Malaysian ports to remain healthy this year, in line with the gradual global economic recovery. — […]
Land Constrained Singapore to Study Underground and High-Rise Data Centers Singapore government has agreed to fund a research project by a local data center provider and a Chinese hardware vendor on designing and building underground […]
Lift Commercial Surrogacy Ban Cambodia Trial of Cancer Struck Aussie Nurse Told A Cambodian defence attorney has called for the current ban on commercial surrogacy in Cambodia to be abolished ‘because the people are poor’, […]
Malaysia announces royal inquiry to investigate Mahathir-era forex scandal The Malaysian government formally established a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Tuesday (Jul 18) to investigate a multi-billion-dollar foreign exchange scandal involving the central bank […]
What is Singapore’s new ‘National Trade Platform’ The National Trade Platform (NTP), developed by Singapore Customs in collaboration with the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech), was one of the potentially game-changing projects recognised by […]