ASEAN

Vietnam spent an average 4.9 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) or 18 per cent of the state budget annually on education...

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

Southeast Asia’s tallest building and the second tallest in the world, the Merdeka 118 tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is due for completion by...

Thailand has been ranked at the bottom of nine Asia-Pacific markets for digital agility despite its claims of aiming to become a "digital hub"...

The Philippines’ public debt stood at a record high of 12.79 trillion pesos ($230.3 billion) when former President Rodrigo Duterte left office at the...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, leading a consortium including Singapore property developer Perennial Holdings — which counts Singapore billionaires Kuok Khoon Hong and Ron...

Indonesia has eventually broken ground on its new capital Nusantara to be constructed in East Kalimantan on Borneo Island with plans to complete the...

In its endeavour to revive the tourism industry after the Covid-19 pandemic, Thailand is now banking on Russia as strong source market after having...

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...

Cambodia has officially launched a new property investment visa programme dubbed “Cambodia – My Second Home” which is widely designed after its namesake Malaysia...

Indonesia has blocked web portal Yahoo, payments firm PayPal and a number of gaming websites as they neglected to comply with licensing rules, Reuters...

Singapore Airlines Group, which comprises of the city-state’s flagship carrier Singapore Airlines and the budget unit Scoot, announced a first-quarter net profit of S$370...

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...

Shah Alam, Malaysia-based OMS Group, a company which installs and maintains submarine cable systems mainly for telecom corporations in Asia-Pacific, is mulling a listing...

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...

Indonesia’s central bank will issue its own digital currency for use by banks and payment services providers on the wholesale level, Perry Warjiyo, governor...

The Philippines finally withdrew from an infrastructure funding deal with China worth 276 billion pesos ($4.9 billion) after Beijing failed to deliver loans under...