Macroeconomics and Risk

The poverty rate in the Philippines rose to 18.1 per cent of the population in 2021, equivalent to nearly 20 million poor Filipinos, as...

Inflation in Laos increased to 25.6 per cent year-on-year in July from 23.6 per cent in June, according to the latest report from the...

Myanmar’s workforce shrank by 1.1 million men and women from pre-Covid-19 and pre-coup times, two and a half years into the global pandemic and...

Qatar's telecommunications firm Ooredoo is in talks to sell its Myanmar unit amid the worsening economic and political climate in the country, Reuters cited...

Vietnam is by some accounts likely to take over China as the “world’s manufacturing hub” amid lasting economic disruptions mainly caused by the Covid-19...

Dutch financial services group ING Bank is exiting the retail banking market in the Philippines, just shortly after US banking giant Citi did the...

Malaysian online car sales platform Carsome, which operates a used-car online marketplace across Southeast Asia, said it is delaying its planned dual listing in...

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad in what can be interpreted as a nationalistic outburst said that Malaysia should claim that Singapore gets “returned”...

The central bank of Laos has plans to ban the country’s residents from holding foreign currencies amid spiraling inflation and the rapid depreciation of...

Facing a toxic combination of high external debt, dwindling cash reserves, surging inflation and a nosediving currency, the small Southeast Asian nation of Laos...

The economy of Myanmar has fallen in turmoil so drastically since the military coup on February 1, 2021 that the World Bank said it...

The economy of ASEAN’s smallest member Brunei in 2021 suffered its biggest contraction in five years, dropping 1.6 per cent as oil and gas...

Philippine stocks dropped to a new nine-month low on May 10, the day after Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, won...

Philippine think tank Action for Economic Reforms (AER) has warned that a potential presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the country’s late...

The significant raise of Malaysia’s minimum wage by May 1 predictably does not find favour among businesses in the private sector, but some economists...

US financial services majors Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Asset Management have given business news channel CNBC their top picks for investments in Southeast Asia...

Bangkok’s condominium market, which had great appeal to foreign buyers before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, saw a “modest improvement” in 2021, but the overall...

The Covid-19 pandemic – or, as some say, rather government-imposed restrictions in response to it – has increased poverty and dealt a blow to...