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2024 Vietnam-South Korea Investment Forum Seeks Greater SME Engagement, R&D Collaboration
Vietnam Briefing
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November 27, 2024
The Vietnam-South Korea Investment Cooperation Forum 2024 discussed expanding SME collaboration and integrating Vietnamese SMEs into global value chains. The Vietnamese government urged South Korean businesses to support this integration and...
Black Friday SME success secrets from Amazon
ChannelX
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November 18, 2024
As the countdown to one of the busiest retail periods of the year begins, Amazon has unveiled a new piece of research designed to give sellers a tech-powered head start with the top three SME success secrets for maximising sales. With the holiday...
IPOs this week: One mainboard IPO, two SME IPOs and eight listings, including Suraksha Diagnostics upcoming on D-Street
Mint
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December 1, 2024
The Indian primary market is set to witness significant market activity related to the public listings of eight initial public offerings (IPOs), including Suraksha Diagnostics, Apex Ecotech, Ganesh Infraworld, and Agarwal Toughened Glass India,...
Over 74pc SME entrepreneurs want to run business maintaining laws, regulations: Study
Bangladesh Sangsbad Sangstha
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Over 74pc SME entrepreneurs want to run business maintaining laws, regulations: Study DHAKA, Nov 24, 2024 (BSS) – More than 74 per cent of the country’s SME entrepreneurs want to do business in compliance with the country’s laws and regulations,...
Tax structure and bureaucratic hurdles top challenges for SME entrepreneurs: Study
The Business Standard
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November 24, 2024
Some 57% of SME entrepreneurs mentioned the tax structure as the main obstacle to doing business in compliance with the law while 54% of entrepreneurs consider the trade license renewal process as an obstacle, according to a study by the SME...
Tax structure and bureaucratic hurdles top challenges for SME entrepreneurs: SME Foundation study
United News of Bangladesh
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Some 57 percent of SME entrepreneurs mentioned the tax structure as the main obstacle to doing business in compliance with the law while 54 percent of entrepreneurs consider the trade license renewal process as an obstacle. Some 51 percent of...
Equity, Bpifrance Join Forces to Boost SME Trade Financing in East Africa
TechTrendsKE
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November 29, 2024
Equity has signed a trade credit financing agreement with BpiFrance, the public investment bank of France, to strengthen support for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across Kenya and the broader East African region. The partnership was signed...
Equity, Bpifrance Join Forces to Boost SME Trade Financing in East Africa
TechTrendsKE
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November 29, 2024
Equity has signed a trade credit financing agreement with BpiFrance, the public investment bank of France, to strengthen support for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across Kenya and the broader East African region. The partnership was signed...
Equity Bank partners with BpiFrance to boost SME trade financing in East Africa
TV47
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November 28, 2024
Equity Bank has signed a trade credit financing agreement with BpiFrance, the public investment bank of France, to strengthen support for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across Kenya and the broader East African region. The partnership was...
Laws must be accessible, clear and reliable –Speaker Bagbin
The Chronicle News Online
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July 17, 2025
Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, has underscored the importance of making Ghana’s laws easily accessible to all citizens, stating that democracy thrives only when everyone can freely access and understand the law. In...
Delvin roots inspire new book by Fonzie Keogh
Westmeath Examiner
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Previous Next Published: Thu 17 Jul 2025, 10:49 AM Last updated: Thu 17 Jul 2025, 10:51 AM Once a person leaves Westmeath, there is no doubt that memories of the Lake County leave its mark. This is the case for Westmeath native Fonzie Keogh, who...
Hungary hosts European SME Assembly in Budapest
Daily News Hungary
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November 19, 2024
Budapest is hosting the European SME Assembly, a high-level political and professional forum for discussing current challenges and trends, and one of the tools for implementing the European Union’s SME Strategy, in the framework of Hungary’s...
European Commission Updates on Eight Infringement Procedures Against Bulgaria
Bulgarian News Agency
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The European Commission released data Thursday on the progress of eight ongoing infringement procedures against Bulgaria, highlighting serious concerns in the areas of justice, economy, waste management, and environmental protection. According to...
Szijjarto announced Hungarian takeover of ‘German’ projects in RS
N1 Info - Bosnia & Herzegovina
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November 12, 2024
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, announced on Tuesday at the "Invest in Srpska 2024" conference, at Mount Jahorina, that Hungary will take over three projects from which Germany pulled out. These are solar and wind power plant...
Hypoport SE: Business Volume In Private Real Estate Financing Rises Significantly In The First Half Of 2025
MENAFN
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July 16, 2025
EQS-News: Hypoport SE / Key word(s): Market Report Hypoport SE: Business Volume in Private Real Estate Financing Rises Significantly in the First Half of 2025 16.07.2025 / 07:10 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this...
52 Places to Travel in the U.S. This Year
AFAR
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July 14, 2025
This story is part of Afar’s America 250 coverage, which includes articles, podcasts, and social media storytelling. In celebration of America’s 250th birthday in 2026, we’ve searched the country for the boldest, artsiest, buzziest, friendliest,...
United States: The instrumentalization of antisemitism and the emergence of Jewish Voice for Peace
LINKS
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July 16, 2025
First published at Tempest. In this interview, Tempest members Sherry Wolf and Charlie Post provide a historical and contemporary roadmap for understanding the opportunistic, and often state-sponsored, bad-faith conflation of anti-Zionism with...
What I Inherited from My Criminal Great-Grandparents
The New Yorker
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July 14, 2025
Around sunset on a rainy Saturday in November, 1906, a woman walked the streets of Rochester, in western New York State, trying to off-load a stack of counterfeit two-dollar bills. She looked about forty, tall, broad in the beam, with dark eyes...
Everything that changes in Germany in November 2024
The Local - Germany
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October 25, 2024
ID cards and residence permits to be delivered by post From the start of November, a new law will come into force that will allow applicants for ID cards and electronic residence permits to receive their documents by post. Currently, official IDs...
MOLDOVA WILL RECEIVE 10.7 MLN. EUROS FROM GERMANY TO DEVELOP BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Infotag
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November 6, 2024
Moldova will receive a grant of 10.7 million euros from the German government through the German Development Bank (KfW) to develop the local business environment. The Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization informed INFOTAG that the...