HANOI / WAM Vietnam attracted $31.8 billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), in the first eleven months of 2019, up 3 percent year-on-year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA), under the Ministry of Planning and Investment. Of the figure, $14.68 billion was poured into 3,478 new projects, up 28 percent for the number of projects but down 7 percent ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Federal Tax Authority (FTA), is finalising its preparations to implement Cabinet Decision No. (52) of 2019 on excise goods, excise tax rates, and the methods of calculating excise price, which comes into force on December 1. The decision was taken to expand the scope of Excise Tax to include sweetened drinks, electronic smoking devices and ...

GENEVA / WAM More than $500 billion a year needs to be invested if countries are to meet a basic set of social protection measures – known as a social protection floor – by 2030, says a new ILO report. According to report, measuring financing gaps in social protection for achieving SDG target 1.3: Global estimates and strategies for developing ...