Arno Maierbrugger
Business journalist
Singapore gets tough with Covid-19 vaccine opponents
Singapore is getting tough with residents who refuse to get vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, a part of society that causes major headaches for...
Laos plans to leave behind poor country status by 2026
The government of Laos is hopeful to leave the Least Developed Country (LDC) status of the nation by 2026 at the latest, calling economic...
US warns companies of engaging in Cambodia’s casino, finance and construction sectors
US state authorities have warned US companies either operating in Cambodia or considering doing so against interactions with “certain entities and sectors of concern,”...
Southeast Asia’s Internet economy rides high
Southeast Asia’s booming Internet economy is set to double to $363 billion by 2025, eclipsing the previous forecast of $300 billion, new research from...
Norway’s Telenor faces hurdles in selling Myanmar business
Norwegian telecom company Telenor is faced with a big backlash to its strategy of focusing on expanding in developing countries as Myanmar’s unrelenting junta...
Vietnam’s first-ever metro line gets going
In a great step forward for public urban transportation in Vietnam, the country’s first metro line began operations on November 6 in the capital...
E-commerce market in Vietnam to keep growing from $11.8 billion last year: Techfest
The size of the e-commerce market in Vietnam is growing strongly, with current revenue already having surpassed last year’s full-year figure of $11.8 billion,...
Myanmar’s shadow government plans to issue “sovereign bond” worth $1 billion to counter junta
Myanmar’s shadow government National Unity Government of Myanmar, or NUG, which has been set up as a pro-democracy group opposing the February 1 military...
Myanmar junta `secures´ telecom towers with land mines in response to rebels
Following a series of attacks by anti-junta fighters on mobile telecom towers in Myanmar that caused substantial damage to the structures and reduced network...
Singapore cyber security company put on US blacklist
Singapore-based cyber-security company Computer Security Initiative Consultancy, or Coseinc, has been blacklisted by the US Department of Commerce for allegedly selling hacking tools to...
Philippine digital payment provider becomes country’s first fintech unicorn
Philippine fintech company Globe Fintech Innovations, which does business under the brand Mynt, on November 2 said it received more than $300 million in...
Laos eager to earn millions from cryptocurrency mining
The Laos government in its new drive to boost the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the country expects to earn no less than two trillion kip...
Thailand reopens to tourism with error-prone travel approval website
Thailand on November 1 officially opened to vaccinated tourists and visitors from 63 countries in a bid to revive the country’s collapsed tourism industry,...
Indonesia commissions Dubai’s DP World for ports development across archipelago
The Indonesian government, through its newly established sovereign wealth fund, signed an agreement with Dubai port operator DP World to develop seaports in Southeast...
Indonesian Muslim clerics classify cryptocurrencies as ‘un-Islamic’
The booming market for cryptocurrencies and digital assets in Indonesia was met with a backlash from local religious authorities who are deeming them “haram,”...
Tesla’s electric car sales surge in Singapore
US electric car maker Tesla proved to be widely popular among Singapore car buyers in September, latest data by the city-state’s Land Transport Authority...
Malaysian doctor creates world’s first unisex condom
Malaysia has come in the news for a rather unconventional, but nevertheless quite practical innovation: the world’s first unisex condom.
According to an October 28...
India’s Adani Ports becomes next investor to call it quits in Myanmar
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, India’s largest integrated ports and logistics company, said on October 27 at its fiscal second quarter presentation that...
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Kuala Lumpur named world’s best city for expats to live in
Malaysia’s national capital of Kuala Lumpur has been ranked best city to live and work globally in the newly released Expat City Ranking 2021...
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Malaysia completes spire of world’s second-tallest tower
Malaysia on November 30 completed the spire of the Merdeka 118 tower in Kuala Lumpur, which will become the world’s second-tallest skyscraper at 678.9...