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Thailand: Finance Minister eyes tax adjustments
- July 14, 2019
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- Category: Daily News
No CommentsFinance Minister Uttama Savanayana on 13 Jul 19 pledged to consider adjusting income tax and corporate tax to bring the two rates closer. The maximum bracket for income tax is 35% while that of the
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India: Rice exports to squeeze due to MSP, scanty rains
- July 12, 2019
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- Category: Daily News
India, the world’s largest rice exporter, could see a decline in exports in 2019 due to rise in minimum support price (MSP) of paddy and scanty rains in the current kharif season. Rice processing and
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India 2 to 5 Trillion: The Road Ahead
- July 10, 2019
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- Category: Press/Events
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently declared that he wanted India to be a $5 trillion economy by 2024. It is an ambitious target and to reach it, India would need critical reforms to turbo-charge its
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Could psychology have helped Carrie Lam avoid Hong Kong’s extradition bill fiasco?
- July 7, 2019
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- Category: Blogs
From confirmation bias to risk aversion, behavioural science principles shed light on Hongkongers’ reactions to the controversial extradition law A better understanding of cognitive psychology could have helped the Hong Kong government By the Hong
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Philippines: Sara’s Hugpong backs compromise candidate
- July 4, 2019
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- Category: Daily News
Presidential daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on 3 Jul 19 offered a compromise candidate for speaker of the House of Representatives in an obvious attempt to end the bitter quarrel among administration allies