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Retail Asia28/02/2022

Taxi firms expect to increase their fares as gasoline prices hit an all-time high. Nguyen Cong Hung, Chairman of the Hanoi Taxi Association, said taxi firms planned to increase fares by 5-8 percent, or VND500-800 per kilometer ($1 ≈ VND22,800). The gasoline price surge has increased taxi firm fuel costs by 13.8 percent, he added. […]

Retail Asia24/01/2022

Manufacturing and tech companies are rushing to recruit workers as foreign companies show rising interest in setting up or expanding their factories in Vietnam. Electronics manufacturer Jabil Vietnam is recruiting 500 workers in Ho chi Minh City, with a bonus of VND3.3 million ($145.62) promised to each new employee. Other companies in Saigon Hi-Tech Park […]

Retail Asia03/08/2017

ASX-listed Flight Centre Travel Group will buy two local travel firms for an undisclosed sum, expanding its footprint in New Zealand and making it one of the country’s biggest travel management groups. The Brisbane-based company on Monday said it had agreed to buy Travel Managers Group (TMG) and Executive Travel Group (ETG), without providing details […]

Retail Asia16/03/2016

Taipei, March 12 (CNA) Taiwan’s top financial supervisor, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), has urged financial institutions in Taiwan and Indonesia to open outlets in each other’s country after they signed an memorandum of understanding (MOU) to speed up cooperation in supervising financial businesses. The FSC inked the cooperation MOU Friday with its Indonesian counterpart […]

Retail Asia08/02/2016

China’s economic growth may have been at its weakest rate in a quarter of a century last year, but some Singaporean firms with operations there are finding pockets of opportunity as the world’s No 2 economy matures from one based on industry to one fuelled by consumption. Among them, warehouse operator Global Logistic Properties (GLP) […]

Retail Asia15/01/2016

The Commerce Ministry’s Business Development Department will this year expand its investigation into the use of Thai nationals as nominees for foreign-controlled companies in nine provinces where it suspects the illegal practice is widespread. This year, three additional provinces will be monitored – Krabi, Trat (Koh Chang), and Chiang Rai. Last year, six provinces were […]

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Taxi firms eye fare surge amid gasoline price hike

Manufacturing, IT firms rush to recruit workers

Flight Centre buys two New Zealand travel firms

Financial firms in Taiwan, Indonesia urged to open outlets after MOU

Singapore firms capitalise on opportunity in China market

Thailand cracking down on foreign-controlled firms using locals as nominees