Manufacturing & Industry

Chinese car maker Chery Automobile plans to set up a factory in Vietnam by next year to sell locally produced models in the country...

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast will ship about 5,000 vehicles to customers in the US, Canada and Europe in early November, according to a...

Chinese car maker BYD Auto said it would set up a facility in Thailand to start producing 150,000 passenger cars per year from 2024. The...

Vietnam's first cargo airline, privately owned IPP Air Cargo, is ready to take to the skies as early as November this year after receiving...

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...

Apple supplier Foxconn has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnamese developer Kinh Bac City to expand its existing manufacturing facility in the north...

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...

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

Myanmar’s workforce shrank by 1.1 million men and women from pre-Covid-19 and pre-coup times, two and a half years into the global pandemic and...

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...

Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi Motors said it is intending to invest about ten trillion rupiah ($667 million) in Indonesia for the expansion of its existing...

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...

Samsung SDI, the battery and electronic materials manufacturing unit of South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group, will build a second battery plant in Malaysia to...

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...

Vietnamese carmaker VinFast said it has tapped Credit Suisse and Citigroup to raise at least $4 billion for the construction of its planned electric...

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...

Vietnam is by some accounts likely to take over China as the “world’s manufacturing hub” amid lasting economic disruptions mainly caused by the Covid-19...

Newly-inaugurated Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has vetoed a bill that would have created a special economic zone north of the country’s capital Manila,...