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In earlier article, the Prime Minister has announced the abolishment of real property gain tax (wef 1/4/07) and proposed special incentives for Iskandar Dvelopment Region (IDR).Coupled with this, there is also the liberalization of the Foreign Exchange Administration Policies

With effect from 1 April 2007, the […]

At the Invest Malaysia Conference 2007 held on 22 March 2007, our Prime Minister during his speech presented at the Invest Malaysia Conference 2007 on 22 March 2007:

The Government has decided not to impose Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT) throughout the country commencing 1 April 2007.
A first incentives package was announced for the Iskandar Development […]

Though Indian companies have not yet made any great impact worldwide compared to brand like Toyota, Sony and other, it’s believe that the following top Ten Indian companies would be a force to reckon with in the near future:

Name

Notes

Tata Motor

India’s biggest maker of trucks and buses has a tieup with Fiat to jointly invest $895 […]

Interesting key features from Singapore Second Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam when presenting the 2007/2008 budget:

the plans to raise the country’s goods and services tax (GST) to 7% from 5% from July 1 and cut corporate tax by 2 percentage points to 18% next year.
the GST increase will be used to redistribute wealth to address dramatic […]

The Malaysian government has assisted many small and medium scale enterprises (SME), by providing grants so as  to modernize their business operations and improve their competitiveness.
Some of the grants available are:-

Grants to meet training costs of projects in selected sectors, both domestic and overseas;
Grants for companies in selected sectors to undertake R&D activities in Malaysia;
Grants […]