In July, Vietnam and Japan reached an agreement to resume business travel for the other's expatriates and long-term residents in each country. On Monday the leaders agreed to include short-term ... ( read original story ...)
Globe Business Bags Gold Stevie® Awards From the 2020 IBAs
Globe Business won four awards in the 17th Annual International Business Awards® (IBAs), which is scheduled to hold a virtual ceremony on December 1, 2020. The enterprise arm of Globe Telecom ... ( read original story ...)
ING and UNICEF launch ‘Fintech for Impact’ initiative to support fintech start-ups in Philippines
FIVE startups in the Philippines have been identified by ING Bank and UN children's agency UNICEF to receive equity-free investments, as well as technical and business mentorship, as part of plans to ... ( read original story ...)
Pakistan to unblock social media app TikTok after it vows to moderate content
Pakistan has decided to lift a ban on popular social media app TikTok after the company vowed to block all accounts involved in spreading "obscenity and immorality", the country's telecom authority ... ( read original story ...)
Domestic businesses seek ways to export products to Thailand
According to the center, Thailand now is the biggest trade partner of Vietnam in ASEAN. Total export and import turnover between the two countries made up about 30% of Vietnam’s total import-export ... ( read original story ...)
PH to double financial inclusion, hit digital payment goal ahead of 2023 schedule – Diokno
The number of Filipinos with bank, electronic money, or other digital transaction accounts will likely double by the end of 2022 – earlier than the 2023 financial inclusion ... ( read original story ...)
Philippine court upholds open-pit mining ban in Mindanao
A court in the Philippines has dealt another setback to the company looking to mine Southeast Asia’s largest untapped deposits of copper and gold, ruling to uphold a ban on the type of destructive ... ( read original story ...)
Not just per capita GDP, Bangladesh outpaces India on key social indicators too
Bangladesh has made substantial progress in several social indicators, including education, sanitation and health. ( read original story ...)
Lack of finance forces Bangladesh to consider shelving coal
Chinese and Japanese investors have lost interest in funding coal projects due to high costs, pushing the country towards natural gas – which will do little to solve problems of overcapacity, expensiv ... ( read original story ...)
“Don’t Be In Data Denial”: Red Flag For India As China GDP Data Out
On a day when data on China's growth, with its economy growing at 4.9 per cent on-year in the third quarter, was released, economists highlighted the projections for other Asian economies China ... ( read original story ...)