Asia

Facing a toxic combination of high external debt, dwindling cash reserves, surging inflation and a nosediving currency, the small Southeast Asian nation of Laos...

The economy of Myanmar has fallen in turmoil so drastically since the military coup on February 1, 2021 that the World Bank said it...

US alternative food company Eat Just, a maker of “cultivated meat” and egg substitutes, decided to set up the largest plant to produce lab-grown...

Thailand officially legalised the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on June 9, the first Asian country to do so,...

Faced with continued Covid-19 lockdown-related supply disruptions, Apple is moving some iPad production from China to Vietnam, while Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi has just...

The age of electric vehicles is gradually arriving in Southeast Asia as primarily Asian car makers are launching their fleets of battery-powered cars in...

Two Singaporean companies have been charged with exporting whiskey, wine and soft drinks to North Korea in a latest case of firms in the...

Philippine president-elect Ferdinand Marcos emphasised his determination to adopt nuclear power in the country, holding talks on May 23 with South Korea's envoy on...

US tech giant Apple has told its suppliers that it wants to expand contract manufacturing outside of China and is looking at Vietnam and...

The China-Laos railway, which opened in December last year, has experienced significant transportation growth since its launch both in terms of passenger and freight...

Tourism in the Asia-Pacific region will take longer to recover from the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the newly released “Travel-ready index 2022”...

South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor opened its first Southeast Asian manufacturing plant in Indonesia on March 16 that will produce Indonesia’s first locally assembled...

Japanese investment management giant SoftBank Group will not invest in Indonesia’s project to relocate its capital city from Jakarta to Borneo island, the company’s...

Beam, a shared micromobility operator founded and headquartered in Singapore, said in an announcement on February 25 that it will accelerate its expansion across...

Malaysia’s oil giant Petronas and Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi are divesting their stakes in Myanmar’s Yetagun gas field, the companies said on February 18, in...

Cambodia exported 423,168 tonnes of fresh bananas in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 27 per cent, The Phnom Penh Post cited data from the...

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...

The opening of the new high-speed train line in Laos has filled the last gap in what is now the longest continuous railway route...