Regional Updates

• Orchard Road smoking ban: Over 4,000 tickets issued last year

  Head of business group for area says no reports of business being affected since curbs enforced 18 January 2020 Vanessa Liu More than 4,000 tickets were issued last year to [...]

• Philippines: Senate ratifies new sin tax measure on e-cigarettes, liquor

  18 December 2019 Katrina Domingo MANILA – (UPDATE) The Senate ratified on Wednesday a bill that will tax electronic cigarettes and impose higher duties on alcohol to raise P22.2 billion on its [...]

• Thai court fines Philip Morris $39.7 million for tax evasion

  29 November 2019 AP BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Friday found the local unit of tobacco giant Philip Morris guilty of evading taxes by under-declaring the value [...]