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Indonesia’s Gojek to enter ride-hailing market in Malaysia, Philippines next year
Indonesia’s ride-hailing giant Gojek will expand into
Malaysia and the Philippines by 2020 as the company is looking...
Special economic zone in Laos expects $10 billion in investments
A special economic zone in northern Laos bordering China is
anticipating investment of at least $10 billion to...
Philippines to revise $180-billion “Build, Build, Build” plan to make it “more realistic”
Infrastructure construction in Makati
The Philippine government, after a phase of promoting its ambitious “Build Build Build” programme...
VinFast makes debut at Vietnam Motor Show
The VinFast Lux SA 2.0 is based on the BMW X5
Vietnam’s first home-grown car brand, VinFast, a...
Ride-hailing pioneer becomes new education minister in Indonesia
Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s new cabinet on October 23
appointed 35-year-old Nadiem Makarim, the co-founder and CEO of...
Thai Airways at risk of closure – Malaysia Airlines shortlists investors
Thailand’s national carrier Thai Airways could suffer the fate of being closed down if its modified restructuring...
McKinsey tasked with assessing Indonesia’s new capital project
The Indonesian government has commissioned the local branch of US management consulting firm McKinsey & Company to...
Indonesia brings high-speed Internet to remote eastern provinces
Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo on October 14 announced the
completion of the last leg of a 13,000-kilometer fiber-optic...
Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways expects $1bn market capitalisation from IPO
Vietnam’s youngest airline Bamboo Airways expects a market
capitalisation of as much as $1 billion from its stock...
Philippine GDP growth forecast revised
The US-China trade war is hitting the Philippine economy © Arno Maierbrugger
The World Bank has downgraded its...
Indonesia’s Lion Air readies for mega-IPO
Lion Air, Indonesia’s largest airline by market size and
destinations and the second largest low-cost airline in Southeast...
Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei jump in competitiveness, Philippines loses out
Ho Chi Minh City skyline at night
The World Economic Forum (WEF)’s competitiveness ranking for 2019 is out...
Vietnam to build smart city for $4.2 billion near Hanoi
Vietnamese hotel and golf resort giant BRG Group and Japan’s Sumitomo Corp, a trading company, struck a...
World’s first heliport for flying taxis to be revealed in Singapore
UK-based company Skyports Ltd. is building the world’s first “vertiport” for electric aircraft in Singapore, an early...
Laos gets its own ride-hailing service
Cambodia-based tech startup Meal Temple Group in partnership with Vientiane-founded KiwiPay has launched a new ride-hailing service...
Singapore smartest city in Southeast Asia, others not so…
Traffic congestion in Metro Manila
Singapore made it to the top of the Smart City Index 2019, the...
Sweden’s Ericsson exposed for bribery in Vietnam, Indonesia
Swedish mobile telecoms equipment maker Ericsson has been found violating the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...
Thailand cuts tourism arrival goal after Thomas Cook collapse
Thailand’s tourism authority is reassessing its overall arrival target for this year after the demise of UK...
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Malaysia’s grey economy at 21% of GDP
The size of Malaysia’s shadow economy stands at around 300 billion ringgit a year, more than...
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US companies eyeing relocation from China to Philippines amid trade war
Companies from the US are increasingly looking at the Philippines as possible alternative location for their existing...