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China continues to be the largest foreign investor in Laos, having invested about $16.4 billion into 833 projects so far, Vientiane Times cited the...

Indonesia on July 18 urged tech companies including Google and Meta, the owner the Facebook brand, to register under new licensing rules within two...

The casino industry in Cambodia is struggling to get back to pre-Covid-19 levels as the official casino ecosystem is failing to gain traction. The problem...

Philippine liquor company Emperador, the world’s largest brandy maker, conducted a secondary listing on the Singapore stock exchange on July 14 as it seeks...

Vietnamese carmaker VinFast said it has tapped Credit Suisse and Citigroup to raise at least $4 billion for the construction of its planned electric...

Thailand is planning to build a $37-billion smart city in an industrial hub in the so-called Eastern Economic Corridor in Chonburi province southeast of...

After the liberalisation of Thailand's cannabis laws in early June, the country's government seeks to make the nation a “regional hub” for producing cannabis-related...

The Thai tourism ministry is trying to put in perspective its recently announced plan to introduce a dual-tariff structure at local hotels for foreigners...

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...

The market value of the e-commerce sector in Cambodia increased to more than $970 million last year, up roughly 19 per cent from $813...

The global economic slowdown in recent months has not left Southeast Asia’s startups unaffected, with hundreds of workers fired from some of the largest...

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...