The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) intends to issue rules on Initial Coin Offerings (“ICO”) and invites banks, investment houses and the investing…

The Eastern Economic Corridor (“EEC”) is Thailand’s flagship policy to accelerate business activities and infrastructures, as well as to attract investments in 3 of…

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (“Laos”) has been credited as one of East Asia’s fastest growing economies by the World Bank. Bounded to the…

Following our earlier Client Alert dated 15 May 2018 on Notification 25/2018 which allows for foreign companies and joint venture companies to engage in…

Republic Act 7160, or the Local Government Code of 1991, provides internal revenue allotments (“IRA”) for local government units (“LGU”) amounting to 40% of…

Introduction In response to strong market support for the introduction of dual class shares in Singapore, the SGX has amended the Mainboard Rules (“the…

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is situated in the north western-most part of mainland Southeast Asia bordering China, India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos. It…

Land in Laos is considered as part of the national heritage and as such is deemed to be owned by the national community. In...

Multi-level marketing (“MLM”) means business activities using a network of participants with many levels and many branches, in which the participants are entitled to...

After months of deliberation, the government of Laos (“GOL”) officially approved an increase to the country’s minimum wage on 20 April 2018, from LAK900,000…