Industries

Union Bank of the Philippines has been named as preferred bidder by Citibank for the latter’s consumer banking division in the Philippines, Bloomberg News...

Malaysia’s national capital of Kuala Lumpur has been ranked best city to live and work globally in the newly released Expat City Ranking 2021...

Malaysia on November 30 completed the spire of the Merdeka 118 tower in Kuala Lumpur, which will become the world’s second-tallest skyscraper at 678.9...

The 7-Eleven convenience store chain, ubiquitous in many Southeast Asian countries, has plans to expand further into the pharmacy business by taking over a...

A Myanmar military conglomerate is seeking to end a joint venture with Japanese beer giant Kirin and liquidate the brewery operations they are running...

Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG), which sees itself as the country’s legitimate administration in opposition to the ruling military junta, has been surprisingly...

Singapore’s Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, or OCBC, is thinking about the possibility to set up its own crypto exchange to satisfy growing demand from clients,...

Southeast Asia’s small and impoverished nation of Laos has issued new regulations to govern cryptocurrency mining operations and trading platforms in the country after...

The number of people in Thailand who need state welfare is expected to increase to 15 million next year from the current level of...

Singapore is getting tough with residents who refuse to get vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, a part of society that causes major headaches for...

The government of Laos is hopeful to leave the Least Developed Country (LDC) status of the nation by 2026 at the latest, calling economic...

US state authorities have warned US companies either operating in Cambodia or considering doing so against interactions with “certain entities and sectors of concern,”...

Myanmar’s shadow government National Unity Government of Myanmar, or NUG, which has been set up as a pro-democracy group opposing the February 1  military...

Philippine fintech company Globe Fintech Innovations, which does business under the brand Mynt, on November 2 said it received more than $300 million in...

The Laos government in its new drive to boost the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the country expects to earn no less than two trillion kip...

The booming market for cryptocurrencies and digital assets in Indonesia was met with a backlash from local religious authorities who are deeming them “haram,”...

Malaysia has come in the news for a rather unconventional, but nevertheless quite practical innovation: the world’s first unisex condom. According to an October 28...

The adoption of cryptocurrency in Indonesia is rapidly growing as the country has seen surging interest in digital assets this year and now ranks...