The delay in issuing Myanmar's new investment law has spurred the Asian Development Bank to express concerns about the country's attractivness to foreign investors...
Soaring growth and reassuring economic fundamentals have made the Philippines secure enough to grant a $1 billion loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
The 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers meeting that kicked off this Monday in Siem Reap, Cambodia, is focusing on closer cooperation and multilateral funding within...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has forecast "immense stress" on the environment if Asian nations don’t implement green strategies and sustainable energy policies that...
The World Bank has opened up a new country office in Yangon, the commercial capital of Myanmar. The international financial institution will prepare a...
The export of commercial services from the Philippines, which are predominantly Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services for which the country has built up a...
The International Monetary Fund has kept its 2012 growth forecast for the ASEAN-5 countries Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.
The IMF said in...
With slowing growth in China and India, all eyes are now on the emerging Southeast Asian economies which are showing resilience not only towards these two large trading partners, but also towards the EU debt crisis.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will commit $1.87 billion of loans for infrastructure and public sector projects in the Philippines over the next three...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Islamic Development Bank and other multilateral development banks said they will release $175 billion in loans for developing...
The tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor plans to upgrade its infrastructure with state investments of up to $1 billion in 2012 from oil and gas revenue and attract foreign investors to engage in public-private partnerships.
Increased public spending, investment, and private consumption will lift growth in the Philippines over the next two years, but long-standing structural weaknesses remain an...