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Pensions: Saving money for old age
Jon Fernquest, Published on 26/09/2012
» When older people stop work, children may not be there to help them, as in the past, so savings for retirement even more important now.
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Year of Turbulence
Asia focus, Published on 27/12/2021
» Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.
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FFP was singled out
Oped, Postbag, Published on 14/03/2020
» Re: "It's not just about FFP", (PostBag, March 12). Khun Piya Samyan defends the Constitutional Court dissolving the Future Forward Party, because "it did violate the law regarding acquisition of income". This is about the "rule of law that is equally applied to all". I fully agree with Khun Piya that the law must be applied without fear or favour -- for if not, the government would be weaponising the law to slay its enemies, so to speak.
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Time to deliver
Asia focus, Larry Jagan, Published on 25/11/2019
» The Myanmar government knows it needs to improve the country's economic performance and extend the benefits of development more evenly across society. With elections only a year away, the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) needs some big wins to prove to the country's entrepreneurs and the urban middle class that it is pro-business.
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Smart grid policy advised for renewable energy progress
Business, Erich Parpart, Published on 13/05/2019
» Regulatory support for a smart grid should be the next government's top priority for renewable energy policy, as finding funding sources for environmentally friendly projects is becoming easier in Thailand, says B.Grimm Power's president.
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Value-based care
Asia focus, Tanyatorn Tongwaranan, Published on 10/09/2018
» Asia Pacific is on track to becoming one of the oldest regions in the world in the next few decades with an elderly population approaching 923 million. However, most governments are still underprepared for the social and economic consequences of this rapid demographic shift.
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Nepal to seek funds from AIIB to rebuild
Published on 04/05/2015
» BAKU, AZERBAIJAN — Nepal will seek financial help from the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to rebuild the nation's infrastructure that was badly damaged by last month's earthquake, Nepal's Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat has said.
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Nepal to reopen damaged heritage sites
Published on 28/05/2015
» KATHMANDU — Nepal has decided to reopen next month three world heritage sites that have been off-limits to tourists since last month's devastating earthquake, officials said.
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Woman on a mission
Asia focus, Published on 09/03/2015
» As the number one destination for US investment in Asia and its fourth-largest export market worldwide, Asean has clear economic as well as strategic importance for Washington. The relationship moved to a new level in 2010 when the United States established a permanent mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Jakarta — separate from the US embassy to Indonesia.
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Welcoming more kids not enough
News, Curtis S Chin, Published on 29/12/2015
» As the year comes to a close, it's worth taking a look back at one of China's major policy decisions in its efforts to address a slowing economy and a growing demographic challenge.
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