The Philippines is seen recovering from the pandemic-induced recession with a gross domestic product growth of 6.9 percent this year and eight percent next year, prompting international debt watcher …
Philippines keeps investment grade rating but Fitch warns vs vaccine rollout delay
FITCH RATINGS affirmed the Philippines’ long-term foreign currency issuer default rating at “BBB” with a stable outlook, on the back of modest government debt levels and still-strong growth prospects …
Cabinet clears bill to increase financial jurisdiction of civil courts
The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of “the Civil Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2021” in order to raise the pecuniary jurisdiction of judges of the lower court to dispose of the civil cases. The …
Finance minister directs for continuing strict price monitoring
Federal minister for Finance and Revenue, Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh Monday directed the provincial governments and relevant departments to continue momentum of strict price monitoring for provision of …
China makes new laws to regulate hi-tech sector a major priority for next five years
Plans to overhaul legal system will include reforms to ‘overcome shortcomings’ in areas such as AI, cloud computing and online finance.
Morgan Stanley not as positive as Macau on GGR rebound
Analysts with the financial group believe that slower VIP traffic is going to make it more difficult for Macau to see big improvements this year.
Morgan Stanley not as positive as Macau on GGR rebound
Analysts with the financial group believe that slower VIP traffic is going to make it more difficult for Macau to see big improvements this year.
Some 38 projects under Gov’t investment and development plan with zero execution rate in 2020
Some 38 projects included in Macau government’s Investment and Development Expenditure Plan had a zero execution rate as of September 20 …
Hong Kong, What is Next? Are the Strengths and Advantages Hong Kong was built on Adequate to Sustain its Future Economic Development?
By Alberto Vettoretti Managing Partner, Dezan Shira & Associates 2020 will certainly go down as one of the most challenging years in Hong Kong’s recent economic history. COVID-19 has taken a toll in …
OPINION – Blockchain-based trade finance platforms offer many opportunities to Mainland China and HK
Practically unfalsifiable and impossible to change once a record has been added, blockchain is a distributed database stored on multiple computers as a massive number of identical copies …