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The Lao government has plans to reduce its ownership in national carrier Lao Airlines to 51 per cent in an attempt to get mounting...

Thailand is fully reopening the country on July 1, dropping all Covid-19 entry regulations which have been imposed for many months and were perceived...

Laos has plans to issue regulations for offshore online gambling businesses with the aim to attract operators targeting markets elsewhere in Southeast Asia, particularly...

Indonesia’s national carrier Garuda Indonesia has halved its debt and achieved comparable cuts to aircraft leasing costs in negotiations with creditors, according to a...

Singapore-based biotechnology startup Mirxes, which focuses on preventive healthcare solutions for cancer and infectious diseases, is weighing an initial public offering (IPO) in the...

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”...

With the easing of almost all restrictions to enter and enjoy a stay in Thailand, the country’s battered tourism industry is starting to recover,...

The Thai government has hastily issued new rules to limit access to marijuana and hemp after the decriminalisation since June 9 sparked many complaints...

The domestic aviation market in Vietnam has been recovering at the fastest pace in the world so far this year with a growth of...

Online shopping portal Shopee, the e-commerce division of Singapore based Sea Ltd., has announced major job cuts across its Southeast Asian operations and also...

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

Philippines-based Prime Infrastructure Holdings, a company controlled by Filipino billionaire Enrique Razon Jr. has unveiled plans to construct the world’s largest solar power facility...

Malaysia strives to become the first country in the world to put a complete end to smoking of tobacco, starting with the youngest generation. The...

US alternative food company Eat Just, a maker of “cultivated meat” and egg substitutes, decided to set up the largest plant to produce lab-grown...

Thailand officially legalised the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on June 9, the first Asian country to do so,...

Technology-sector salaries in Singapore are set to soar in the next couple of years amid a hiring boom particularly in finance, according to Singapore...