ASEAN

Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...

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...

Innovative educational technology companies (edtechs) in Vietnam are increasingly on the radar of international private equity firms as education gets more digitised not only...

Singapore-based banking group DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest lender by assets, has teamed up with The Sandbox, a blockchain-based Metaverse gaming platform, to develop new...

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...

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...

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

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...

US co-working company WeWork has unveiled its flagship office tower in Singapore as it expands in the Asian financial hub, which is among its...

Myanmar exiles ousted in a 2021 coup are pressing the US Federal Reserve to endorse their bid to use billions of dollars in funds...

Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo is about to sell its Myanmar operations to Singapore-headquartered technology firm The One Matrix Ventures, Reuters reported, referring to insiders. Ooredoo...

The Indonesian government is planning to establish its envisaged “crypto stock exchange” by the end of 2022, DealStreetAsia cited the country’s deputy trade minister...

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...

The wife of the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, Rosmah Mansor, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for soliciting and receiving...

Cryptocurrency adoption in Singapore has risen despite a hardline approach of the city-state’s financial market regulator, a new survey shows. According to data from Australia-based...

Indonesia’s biggest e-commerce company GoTo on August 30 posted a half-year net loss of 14.17 trillion rupiah ($955 million), more than double compared with...