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Qatar's telecommunications firm Ooredoo is in talks to sell its Myanmar unit amid the worsening economic and political climate in the country, Reuters cited...

China continues to be the largest foreign investor in Laos, having invested about $16.4 billion into 833 projects so far, Vientiane Times cited the...

Indonesia on July 18 urged tech companies including Google and Meta, the owner the Facebook brand, to register under new licensing rules within two...

Indonesia is planning to get six million units of electric motorcycles on the road nationwide by 2025 as part of its efforts to cut...

The casino industry in Cambodia is struggling to get back to pre-Covid-19 levels as the official casino ecosystem is failing to gain traction. The problem...

The Central Bank of Myanmar on order of the country’s military government has issued a directive that companies and individual borrowers holding foreign loans...

Philippine liquor company Emperador, the world’s largest brandy maker, conducted a secondary listing on the Singapore stock exchange on July 14 as it seeks...

Vietnamese carmaker VinFast said it has tapped Credit Suisse and Citigroup to raise at least $4 billion for the construction of its planned electric...

Thailand is planning to build a $37-billion smart city in an industrial hub in the so-called Eastern Economic Corridor in Chonburi province southeast of...

After the liberalisation of Thailand's cannabis laws in early June, the country's government seeks to make the nation a “regional hub” for producing cannabis-related...

Singapore’s old Seletar Airport in the northeast of the city-state is planning to become a hub for flying taxis in the region as early...

Myanmar’s junta, which came to power in a coup d’etat in February 2021 and has since had to deal with the problem of a...

The Thai tourism ministry is trying to put in perspective its recently announced plan to introduce a dual-tariff structure at local hotels for foreigners...

Vietnam is by some accounts likely to take over China as the “world’s manufacturing hub” amid lasting economic disruptions mainly caused by the Covid-19...

The Thai tourism industry, which never gets tired to find new ways of extracting extra money from foreign visitors, has come up with a...

The market value of the e-commerce sector in Cambodia increased to more than $970 million last year, up roughly 19 per cent from $813...

The global economic slowdown in recent months has not left Southeast Asia’s startups unaffected, with hundreds of workers fired from some of the largest...

Newly-inaugurated Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has vetoed a bill that would have created a special economic zone north of the country’s capital Manila,...