Transport and Infrastructure

The Philippine government has awarded a consortium backed by South Korean and European companies and led by Samsung Group’s construction arm the $11-billion deal...

Faced with a debt crisis and various other economic problems, Laos saw its inflation jumping to 30.1 per cent year-on-year in August from 25.6...

A new route – either a bridge or a tunnel – spanning 120 kilometers is planned by a private consortium to link Malaysia's coast...

Thailand’s embattled flag carrier Thai Airways International has set the course to recovery as its creditors have accepted the carrier’s revised rehabilitation plan The airline...

A joint venture of three Thai companies in the petroleum industry has announced plans to make aviation fuel from used cooking oil. The project will...

Indonesia has urged US electric vehicle maker Tesla to manufacture its cars and vehicle batteries in the country, Bloomberg News cited the nation’s President...

Vietnam now has earmarked up to $58.7 billion for its planned high-speed railway from the north to the south of the nation, the government...

The number of initial public offerings (IPO) at the Philippine Stock Exchange will probably rise to a record this year, with a value of...

Energy-hungry Vietnam will need investments of between $8 billion and $14 billion a year up to 2030 to develop new power plants and expand...

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...

Indonesia has eventually broken ground on its new capital Nusantara to be constructed in East Kalimantan on Borneo Island with plans to complete the...

Indonesia is currently on the receiving end of very handy foreign direct investments as the attraction of the country’s car industry grows rapidly, boosted...

Shah Alam, Malaysia-based OMS Group, a company which installs and maintains submarine cable systems mainly for telecom corporations in Asia-Pacific, is mulling a listing...

Swedish telecommunications and network infrastructure company Ericsson has selected Malaysia as manufacturing hub for the group’s state-of-the-art fifth-generation (5G) telecom equipment in the Asia-Pacific...

The Philippines finally withdrew from an infrastructure funding deal with China worth 276 billion pesos ($4.9 billion) after Beijing failed to deliver loans under...

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 is planning to get six million units of electric motorcycles on the road nationwide by 2025 as part of its efforts to cut...

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...