Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani has restructured the organization & work procedures of the Secretariat of Financial System Stability Committee ...
Turkey Imposes 8% Tax on Yachts, Ending Luxury Exemption
Turkey has slapped an 8% special consumption tax on yachts, motorboats and other pleasure craft, ending a zero-rate exemption that had applied to luxury vessels.
Google services were down in Turkey, parts of Europe
Some Google services including YouTube temporarily went down on Thursday in Turkey and some parts of Europe including Greece and Germany, according to a Turkish deputy minister, internet monitors and ...
Fires, earthquakes and inflation are putting tourists off Turkey
This year there have also been hundreds of earthquakes in the Aegean, sparking fears that a really big one is coming. And on top of it all is Turkey’s inflation, which stood at 33.5% year on year in ...
Turkey Opposition Calls Extraordinary Congress to Shield Leader
Turkey’s main opposition is seeking to hold extraordinary congress on Sept. 21 in a bid to bolster its leadership after a court challenge threatened to unseat its chairman.
How Vietnam walked into a population emergency
The fertility rate fell to 1.91 last year, below the "replacement" threshold of 2.1 births per woman considered necessary to keep a population stable. The shift follows decades of rapid economic ...
Vietnam Aug exports keep strong, PM warns of mounting inflation pressure
Vietnam's exports in August rose 14.5% from a year earlier to $43.39 billion, government data showed on Saturday, the first trade figures since a tariff of 20% on shipments to the United States took ...
Philippines extends land leases to 99 years to attract foreign investors
Foreign investors in the Philippines will be able to lease private land for up to 99 years under a law signed this week, as the country looks to be more competitive in attracting offshore funding for ...
Japan’s Prince Hisahito is the first male royal to reach adulthood in 40 years. He may be the last
Japan's Prince Hisahito is the first male royal to reach adulthood in 40 years, highlighting the challenges facing the world's oldest monarchy.
Half a million people flee their homes in Pakistan’s Punjab to escape flooding
Rivers are swelling to dangerous levels in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, forcing more than half a million people to flee their homes in the past 24 hours, officials said Thursday. The latest ...