Economy and Trade

In a strategy to hurt the rich Shinawatra family where is probably hurts most, anti-government protesters in Thailand have resorted to rally at buildings...

The government and the State Bank of Vietnam do not recognise Bitcoin as a means of payment in the territories of Vietnam, a release...

Tens of thousands of farmers, traveling on more than 1,000 farm tractors in a long convoy from the upper northern and central provinces, on...

Brunei's crude oil exports fell 34 per cent in November 2013 year-on-year, according to latest statistics from the Department of Economic Planning and Development...

Rating agency Moody's in a new report on Vietnam said that the country's non-performing loan (NLP) ratio is much higher than the official figure...

International tourist arrivals to Thailand posted a razor-thin growth of 0.06 per cent in January 2014, according to the latest data from the Ministry...

Singapore's economy expanded by 4.1 per cent in 2013, an improvement on the 1.9 per cent the previous year, the government said on February...

The Malaysian Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) in their quarterly member survey said that dark clouds...

The real estate sector would be the driving factor for the GCC markets in 2014 underpinned by banking and financial services, Kuwait Financial Center...

Australia and Indonesia were now in “open conflict” and repairing the “worsening” relationship was imperative, Australia's deputy opposition leader Tanya Plibersek said on February...

Japanese investment in Laos hit $405.7 million in 2013, up 15 per cent year-on-year, partly driven by manufacturing relocation after the 2011 floods in...

International real estate agency Cluttons has been appointed by Chinamex, one of China’s largest overseas trading companies, as the official agent to lease the...

Myanmar announced February 12 that for the first time it will use international measurement standards to issue gold bars. Myanmar officials say the change...

Malaysia has been ranked one of the cheapest places in the world to purchase a Big Mac, according to The Economist's new Big Mac...

Long-overdue government subsidy payments to farmers under the rice-pledging scheme will begin next week, Thaialnd's caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on February 13,...

The value of property deal in Oman grew by 21.5 per cent to 1.945 billion rial ($770 million) for the period between January and...

Singaporean has emerged as the largest foreign investor in Myanmar as companies from the city state have been expanding their investments in sectors such...

Malaysia attracted 38.774 billion ringgit ($11.68 billion) in foreign direct investments (FDI) in 2013, an increase of 24 per cent compared with 2012, the...