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More garment workers face unemployment in Myanmar
Myanmar’s garment industry union leaders fear another 200,000 garment workers in the country could lose their jobs by the end of the year due...
Laos allows crypto trading and mining in first trial phase
The Lao government has authorised six companies to trade and mine cryptocurrencies in a move seen as an attempt to benefit from the crackdown...
Southeast Asia’s first electric vehicle battery plant is in the making
South Korean companies LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor Company began the construction of a new plant for electric vehicle batteries in Indonesia on...
Philippines’ richest just got richer from stock market rally
Filipino tycoons saw their collective wealth rise 30% to a total of $79 billion, the latest Forbes list of the Philippines’ 50 richest...
Pandemic brings boom for ‘digital doctors’ in Southeast Asia
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a substantial rise in digital health services offerings in Southeast Asia, with a boom in managed care portals...
Indonesians quickly adopt digital payments, study shows
A new study has found that Indonesians are increasingly using digital channels for all sorts of payments, including online shopping, food order, bills payment,...
Vietnam’s Covid-19 closures disrupt global coffee supply
People globally affected by the Covid-19 crisis could be soon faced with another one, namely a coffee crisis, as concerns grow over global coffee...
Porsche chooses Malaysia for its first assembly plant outside Europe
German carmaker Porsche decided to set up an assembly plant in Malaysia to locally produce its cars, in a first to move parts of...
Boracay could finally get a casino as Philippine government looks for fresh tax sources
The Philippine holiday island of Boracay in the country’s Western Visayas region will likely soon get a casino after a gambling ban has been...
Dispute about ‘stolen’ Cambodian oil could take years, lawyers say
The legal dispute about who is the rightful owner of the Cambodian oil that has been “stolen” by an oil tanker after Singaporean oil...
Indonesian buy-now-pay-later fintech expands to Vietnam
Indonesian fintech Kredivo, which is planning to go public on Nasdaq via a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, eyeing a valuation of $2.5...
Cambodia’s stolen oil resurfaces in Indonesian waters
Indonesia's navy said on August 25 that it has seized a tanker and its crew who were wanted on charges of stealing nearly 300,000...
New digital bank set to launch in the Philippines
The Philippines is moving fast forward into the digital banking age with the fifth license granted to a neobank by the central bank Bangko...
Indonesia wants to phase out fuel-powered motorcycles
112 million motorbikes in Indonesia are constantly blowing fumes in the air
Indonesia has started a project to...
Vietnam, Indonesia have a love affair with instant noodles
The ultimate convenience food in Asia: Instant noodles
Indonesia and Vietnam are the second- and third-largest instant noodles...
Drastic changes to Malaysia’s formerly lauded retirement visa scheme met with criticism
Southeast Asia's formerly most welcomed retirement visa scheme for foreigners has now "prohibitive" conditions
Malaysia’s retirement visa programme...
Cambodia, Malaysia launch cross-border digital money transfers
The National Bank of Cambodia and Malaysian banking group Malayan Banking, or Maybank, launched a new mobile...
Vietnam wants digital economy to account for one fifth of GDP by 2025
Vietnam has set itself a goal that the digital economy should represent 20 per cent of gross...
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Immigration data of over 100 million foreign travelers to Thailand leaked
More than 106 million travelers who visited Thailand in the last ten years had their personal details exposed online in August 2021, UK-based data...
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Indonesia’s online grocery market takes off
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated what was already a big trend in Indonesia, namely online grocery shopping. Experts expect the country’s grocery e-commerce market...