Energy & Resources

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

Vietnam received nearly $16.8 billion in foreign direct investment as of August 20 this year, down 12.3 per cent anually, according to the country’s...

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...

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...

The combined wealth of the super-wealthy in the Philippines dropped to $72 billion this year from $79 billion in mid-2021 even as the country...

US electric vehicle maker Tesla has signed contracts worth a total of about $5 billion to buy materials for its batteries from nickel processing...

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...

Myanmar’s junta, which came to power in a coup d’etat in February 2021 and has since had to deal with the problem of a...

Vietnam’s economic planners have presented ideas to create smart cities in 41 out of the 63 provinces and cities in the country in order...

Philippines-based Prime Infrastructure Holdings, a company controlled by Filipino billionaire Enrique Razon Jr. has unveiled plans to construct the world’s largest solar power facility...

The economy of ASEAN’s smallest member Brunei in 2021 suffered its biggest contraction in five years, dropping 1.6 per cent as oil and gas...

Philippine president-elect Ferdinand Marcos emphasised his determination to adopt nuclear power in the country, holding talks on May 23 with South Korea's envoy on...

US electric carmaker Tesla has apparently agreed to invest in battery and electric vehicle manufacturing plants in Indonesia, the country’s investment minister Bahlil Lahadalia...

A newly discovered underground gold mine in Laos that has just begun operations is expected to significantly bolster mineral production in the country and...

Vietnam, a country which has developed a remarkable startup scene in a number of industries in recent years, is seemingly also becoming an innovative...