4 minutos When the tourism and hospitality industries reopen their doors, will tourists and holidaymaker flock in triple and quadruple their previous numbers and will they do so long enough for the industries to stabilize and resume growth? Will air travel shake off the blow it has taken, will it be willing to pocket less profit to attract business or will it hike prices to capitalize the anticipated initial high demand post the pandemic? How individual industries will raise from the ashes of the Continue lendo→

3 minutos Cambodia’s special economic zones (SEZs) are among several Asean peers that boast potential opportunities for US investors, seeking to diversify their supply chains, according to a recent report conducted by an international service firm. It said the bloc’s SEZs are playing an important role in facilitating greater trade between the region and the US through various fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, said Dezan Shira & Associates – a pan-Asia, multi-disciplinary professional services firm, providing legal, tax and operational advice to international corporate investors. Continue lendo→

1 minuto While the world is dotted with free-trade and special economic zones, few are on the scale of Hainan, China’s most populous island, covering an area only slightly smaller than Taiwan, and home to more than 9 million people. Beijing’s latest attempt to reinvent the sleepy tropical island as a massive free-trade port have drawn suggestions that it is trying to replace Hong Kong as the trading entrepôt for multinational companies trying to tap the mainland’s manufacturing base or consumer market. As a World Trade Continue lendo→