ASEAN

Malaysian glove maker Supermax Corporation has become the next company to be put on a banned list over alleged forced labour practices, the fourth...

Indonesian e-commerce giant GoTo will receive $400 million from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the sovereign wealth fund of the emirate of Abu...

Cambodia has reintroduced its e-visa scheme for tourists after the country decided to gradually open its borders as distress from the Covid-19 pandemic eases. The...

Seemingly irrespective of civil unrest, countless skirmishes between guerilla-style freedom fighters and the army, over 300 roadside bomb attacks since the February 1 coup,...

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on October 15 ordered to halt license issuances for financial technology companies whose business entails digital lending to consumers and...

Residents of Laos’ capital Vientiane on October 16 witnessed the arrival of the first passenger high-speed train running on the new Laos-China railway line...

Emerging Vietnamese car maker VinFast will offer pre-orders for its electric sports utility vehicles from the US in the first half of 2022 and...

Singapore has plans to expand the city-state’s defense and security forces with mobile robots and through its state agency for defense science and technology...

London-headquartered cigarette maker British American Tobacco (BAT) will withdraw from military-ruled Myanmar by the end of this year and cease all of its operations...

The Philippines has been named one of the least attractive destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Asia-Pacific in a new ranking by Oxford...

Indonesia’s currency, the rupiah, is likely poised to become Asia's best-performing currency for the rest of the year as rising commodity prices are pushing...

Laos is getting another step closer to China as the Vientiane Capital Station, the largest and most important station of the newly-built China-Laos railway,...

Food and grocery delivery company Foodpanda has announced a nationwide coverage in Laos, a landlocked nation of about 7.3 million people in Southeast Asia,...

Thailand’s PTT Oil and Retail Business, or PTT OR, a unit of state-controlled oil and gas firm PTT, is increasingly venturing into the non-petroleum...

Philippine property developer Megaworld, controlled by Filipino billionaire businessman Andrew Tan, said on October 6 that it would be developing a new business district...

Southeast Asia’s largest budget airline AirAsia Group has just contradicted its catchy long-time slogan “Now everyone can fly” by announcing that it will only...

Laos is adapting Cambodia‘s concept of introducing a government-backed cryptocurrency, the Japanese fintech involved last year in the creation of Cambodia’s digital money called...

Philippine call centers and business process outsourcing firms are increasingly coming under pressure from a new home working attitude of employees, threatening to derail...