Macroeconomics and Risk

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...

Myanmar's junta through the Myanmar Investment Commission has given the final approval for the sale of Telenor’s operations in the country to a local...

Phnom Penh-based hotel, gaming and leisure company NagaCorp, the operator of Cambodia’s largest hotel and gaming resort NagaWorld, said it would halt its $350-million...

Malaysia’s oil giant Petronas and Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi are divesting their stakes in Myanmar’s Yetagun gas field, the companies said on February 18, in...

Total receipts from tourism in all of Thailand’s 77 provinces slipped to another historic low in 2021, declining by 69.6 per cent to 241.4...

Southeast Asia is entering a recovery phase from the Covid-19 pandemic, mainly helped by improving exports as the global economy is gradually strengthening, the...

The property markets in Singapore and Vietnam are likely to emerge faster than their Southeast Asian peers from the economic slump brought along by...

A Southeast Asian economic think tank has warned that the small nation of Brunei needs a broader “strategic plan” to diversify its economy away...

The World Bank is maintaining a bleak outlook for Myanmar from the double whammy of the military coup on February 1, 2021 and the...

France’s TotalEnergies and US-headquartered Chevron, two of the world’s largest energy conglomerates, announced on January 21 that they were ceasing all operations in Myanmar. As...

Inflation in Southeast Asian economies is expected to hit its highest level in ten years in 2022, setting the stage for the start of...

Vietnam’s government reported that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2.58 per cent in 2021, slowing from a 2.91 per cent expansion in...

Myanmar’s military government will begin accepting China’s currency, the renminbi, as official settlement currency for trade with and investments from its northern neighbor, Reuters...