SME News
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2021-03-09
China ‘two sessions’: help for coronavirus-hit small businesses likely to become more targeted, analysts say
China’s pledge to extend additional support to vulnerable small businesses will be more targeted, with the broad policies aimed at offsetting the economic impact of the coronavirus likely to be scaled back as conditions improve, analysts said. ...
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2021-03-09
Dubai Entrepreneurship Academy to launch new startup-focussed programmes
Dubai: The education arm of Dubai SME has launched a new set of training programmes, continuing some of the initiatives last year. For the next six months the Academy has charted out a series of programmes aimed to impart education and training on...
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2021-03-09
Preston small business owners 'unhappy and stressed out'
Just one in four SME owners say they have a good work-life balance. The takepayments Limited annual 2021 business challenges report of 1,000 small business and decision makers finds 86 per cent of small business owners are working over the recomme...
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2021-03-08
Singapore investors welcome Indonesia's new Omnibus Law
JAKARTA (The Straits Times): Singapore businesses hope Indonesia's new 'Omnibus Law' will bring essential reforms in a wide range of areas from business permits to labour, enabling businesses to operate more efficiently in South-east Asia...
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2021-03-08
Businesses shut, sarongs waved as protests intensify in Myanmar
YANGON: Shops, factories and banks were closed in Myanmar’s biggest city Yangon on Monday after major trade unions called for a shutdown of the economy as part of the uprising against the country’s military rulers. Witnesses said troop...