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State-owned Vietcombank has introduced an online registration system for gold bar purchases starting Wednesday. Customers can register to buy gold from 9 a.m. daily and collect their orders in the afternoon. Vietcombank said that it promises to keep all…
Vietnam has cut car registration fees in half for locally-made or assembled cars as authorities hope against hope that the move will boost sales. The 6-month cut takes effect July 1 and the fees will return to normal starting Jan. 1, according to a government…
Mobile phone users in the Philippines must now register their SIM cards with their telecom provider after the country’s President, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., signed into law the SIM Card Registration Act. According to the official dispatch, the new measure aims to…
A government decree has cut registration fees for locally made cars by 50 percent for six months starting December 1. This is the second time in the last two years such a cut is being made to mitigate the difficulties faced by the auto industry due to the…
The Ministry of Finance has said the registration fee for locally manufactured automobiles will be halved for six months until May 15 next year. If the government issues the decree for the purpose after Nov. 15, the fee cut would apply from Dec. 1 to May 31,…
The government has instructed the Ministry of Finance to assess the impact of a 50-percent cut in registration fees for locally produced automobiles. Thanh Cong Motor Vietnam Joint Stock Company had called on the government to cut the fee to support an…
The Ministry of Finance has rejected a proposal to reduce auto registration fees by half, saying it is not necessary for the current setting. The proposal was made by the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association (VAMA), seeking support for manufacturers…
The government believes domestic car producers have received enough support from the discount scheme, and so will not extend it. The 50 percent discount scheme on the registration fees of cars produced domestically, which came into effect on June 28 this…
HCMC will raise registration fees of cars under 9 passenger seasts from VND11 million ($473) to VND20 million ($860) from October 17. According to a resolution recently passed by the city’s People Council, licensing fees for other types of cars will be set…
Singapore’s national e-payment system, «PayNow», currently boasts a nearly 70 percent penetration of the city-state’s population with monthly volumes exceeding S$1 billion, an MAS board member recently shared with parliament. Ong Ye Kung, minister of…
Hanoi is considering limiting the registration of new motorbikes in the downtown area from next year to reduce traffic jams. It will start with the districts of Hoan Kiem, Hai Ba Trung, Ba Dinh, Dong Da, and Tay Ho, and will expand to the districts of Cau…
Some have no idea about the requirement, others find it invasive while network providers can’t guarantee help in English. Expats are having issues with Vietnam’s new regulation which asks phone users to submit a profile picture to their network provider. The…
Thailand’s MVNOs will need to implement a new online fingerprint ID registration system for both prepaid and postpaid mobile SIMs by March, after regulator the NBTC declined to exempt them from complying with the new registration regime. The online…
Ooredoo Myanmar has added new channels for its subscribers to use to self-register, in line with a government directive that all SIMs in use in the nation be registered by next year. Customers now have four options for self-registering their SIMs. The four…
Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has revealed plans to require all mobile operators to introduce an online fingerprint ID system for prepaid and postpaid mobile SIM registrations. The regulator has given a tentative…
The Telecom Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) has given operators until the start of next month to register all customers’ SIM cards or disconnect any remaining unregistered SIMs. Operators will need to alert customers at least seven times within seven days before…
