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Good Quality VoIP Protocols
How can you make sure that your network is living up to the requirements, both before and after deploying VoIP services? Given below are some very useful guidelines you can look up to before deploying VoIP in your network, or when you desire to better the quality of your network after deployment.
Whether choosing […]
Hong Kong Urged to Reduce Corporate Taxes
Hong Kong’s economy has worsened sharply since early 2004, enabling the Chief Executive to promise in his election pledge to reduce the profits tax rate to 15 percent over his current term of office. This would form a reduction of nearly 14 percent from the current headline rate, enhancing Hong Kong’s reputation as one […]
Be Proactive Secure Mobility In The Workplace
No matter whether your organization has a strategy for mobile working, employees will inevitably utilize the technology available and ‘go mobile’. Pushing employees to use only devices that are delivered by IT is possible, but, both difficult to realize and liable end up in resistance due to perceived limitations.
As an alternative, organisations should form a […]
Luxury Car Sales Booming in China
At the Beijing Auto Show organizers assigned 4,000 square meters of space for luxury cars, where top brands are displaying their new models.
Competition among luxury car brands in China is becoming more and more intense, with the latest indication of exciting times being the launching of Porsche AG’s new showroom in Shanghai last week. […]
Comprehensive Tax Exemption Scheme in Singapore
The Hong Kong-based financial consultancy reports that, beginning in 2009 a newly launched company that sticks to specified conditions can claim a full tax exemption on the first 100,000 Singapore dollars (US$73,000) of normal chargeable income. This is apart from the 50 percent tax exemption provided to the next S$200,000, the report says.
Beginning in […]
Long Leases in Thai Property Market
Because of the longer stay - usually one month to three months in a year - they spend four to five times more during their visits in comparison with other tourists. This target group is therefore a segment that Thailand should concentrate upon, looking for quality over quantity. Ninety-nine per cent of the buyers of […]
No-Risk Investing in Asia After Natural Disasters
Watching the news recently, you could be forgiven for thinking that the entire country of China is a pile of shoddily constructed rubble, filled with wailing citizens, and that Burma is a whole country literally flattened, with people unable to work and an economy unable to grow at all. However, the facts are quite different […]
Setting Up Private Trustee Companies In Hong Kong
While the client manages the offshore company, he must be cautious in maintaining its distinct identity as a trustee to prevent any accusation about the integrity of the structure. Most offshore jurisdictions need a grantor. To appoint licensed trustee companies to perform as trustee of an offshore trust if the trust is to be domiciled […]
Thailand Attracting Expat Retirees From Around The World
Thailand is the most favored home-away-from-home for expatriate retirees looking for the sunnier climes of South-East Asia, but the kingdom faces rising competition from their neighbors, a renowned international property consultant reported.
Thailand, which has been energetically trying to woo foreign retirees for years, granted 12,092 special retirement visas to foreigners in the first seven […]
Thai Luxury Condominiums Sales in Thailand
A Bangkok-based developer, has recently revealed some staggering figures on the sale of it’s newest development. No question this is the Bangkok-based developer - most ambitious project to date and it seems to have paid off. Within three days of the March 2007 pre-launch, all of the initial units were freezed. Since then an 279 […]
