ASEAN

The Malaysian civil aviation commission has approved and licensed another new domestic airline startup despite the industry is still reeling from the impact of...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), after it issued new guidelines for marketing and advertising of cryptocurrency services in the city state on January...

Indonesia’s parliament on January 18 finally passed a bill to relocate the nation’s capital from Jakarta to an area in East Kalimantan province on...

Malaysia has started an assessment of the potential benefits of a central bank-backed digital currency, Bank Negara Malaysia said according to a Bloomberg News...

Vietnam’s economic recovery is likely to accelerate in 2022 as gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to rise to 5.5 per cent from...

Laos has partially reopened its border for international tourists on January 1 and is now expecting at least one million fully vaccinated travelers visiting...

Citigroup agreed to sell its consumer banking businesses in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam with a customer base of about 2.4 million to Singapore’s...

Thailand will begin collecting a 300-baht ($9) “entry fee” from foreign tourists starting from April regardless whether they enter the country by air, land...

Myanmar’s military government implemented a hefty raise of the commercial tax on Internet services on January 8, state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar...

Creditors of Indonesia’s struggling flagship airline Garuda Indonesia are seeking about 198 trillion rupiah ($13.9 billion) in claims as part of the carrier’s debt...

US car maker Ford Motor Company finally decided to set up an assembly plant in Cambodia for the production of its Ford Ranger and...

Vietnamese car manufacturer VinFast, which is keen to expand with its electric vehicles to the US and Europe this year, is reportedly looking for...

Credit card fraud in the Philippines skyrocketed 21 per cent since the Covid-19 pandemic started in early 2020, an industry group said. This is...

SKS Airways, a new commercial airline in Malaysia, has been awarded a full Air Service License by the Malaysian Aviation Commission, effective January 1,...

Indonesia on December 4 approved a merger of the local telecom units of Qatar’s Ooredoo and Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison supposed to be worth...

Internet outages orchestrated by Myanmar’s military junta to curb nationwide protests against the February 1, 2021 coup d’état resulted in economic damages for the...

Vietnamese automaker VinFast has started delivery of its first electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) to customers in its home market as of end-December last...

Cambodia expects a swift recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in the course of 2022, supported by improving exports of garments and non-garment products, electronic...