Regional Updates

12 February 2020 Seventeen Hotels and restaurants in Kampong Speu Province were given awards by the Ministry of Tourism Cambodia for complying with the Sub-decree on Smoke-free Workplaces and Public Places in tourism business and […]

31 January 2019 Amrin Amin Singapore has banned e-cigarettes to protect the public from the harm they can cause, said Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Home Affairs Amrin Amin, as he laid out a comprehensive explanation […]

28 January 2020 Ted Cordero To effectively address health concerns arising from consumption of tobacco and alcohol products, excise taxes should be adjusted every three years as income generation rapidly catches up with higher levies, […]

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 those who had violated the […]

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 first year of implementation. The […]

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 of cigarettes it imported from […]

24 November 2019 Gemma Holliani Cahya For the past few years, cigarette companies have introduced a new form of nicotine consumption that they say is less harmful, smoke free and will save millions of lives […]

21 November 2019 Michelle Abad MANILA, Philippines – Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III told Rappler on Thursday, November 21, that the department is “1000%” in support of President Rodrigo Duterte’s vaping ban. This comes […]

21 November 2019 Julia Mari Ornedo and Amita Legaspi Senator Pia Cayetano on Wednesday blamed the total ban on e-cigarettes on the refusal of key industry players to cooperate with the government’s previous efforts to […]