Politics

The Cambodian government has commissioned a US-based lobbying firm to improve the country’s image in United States and elsewhere, a report by US-sponsored news...

Southeast Asia’s economies are on a much slower recovery path from the Covid-19 crisis than previously thought, according to a new assessment by the...

Myanmar’s currency, the kyat, has fallen to a new all-time low against the US dollar this September amid growing concerns about the stability of...

More than 106 million travelers who visited Thailand in the last ten years had their personal details exposed online in August 2021, UK-based data...

Philippine boxing legend-turned-politician Manny Pacquiao, nicknamed PacMan, declared on September 19 that he decided to run for president of the Philippine in the 2022...

Myanmar’s garment industry union leaders fear another 200,000 garment workers in the country could lose their jobs by the end of the year due...

The Lao government has authorised six companies to trade and mine cryptocurrencies in a move seen as an attempt to benefit from the crackdown...

Myanmar’s telecom service provider Mytel, the country’s third-largest mobile phone operator with a pre-coup and pre-Covid-19-pandemic market share of about 14 per cent, is...

A consortium of Indonesian companies together with university researchers has started to develop a variation of aviation fuel containing a small share of biofuel...

Thailand is desperately trying to revive its collapsed tourism industry by introducing new incentives for visitors, betting on higher vaccination rates against Covid-19 that...

Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak who has been entangled in the corruption scandal surrounding state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) has been...

In Singapore, autonomous robots are now rambling around in the town center, keeping a watchful eye on what the government of the city-state defines...

Myanmar’s economy is in free fall after the February 1 coup that threw the country into substantial turmoil and probably decades back in development,...

The Philippine holiday island of Boracay in the country’s Western Visayas region will likely soon get a casino after a gambling ban has been...

The legal dispute about who is the rightful owner of the Cambodian oil that has been “stolen” by an oil tanker after Singaporean oil...

After decades of hitting the tourism jackpot by selling a tropical holiday experience with "smiles," easy-going lifestyle, arguably good food and a no-strings-attached entertainment...

Casinos in the Philippines – all those which are overseen by gambling regulator Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, or PAGCOR – suffered a 27-per...

Malaysia’s king has chosen a new prime minister on August 20 in accordance with nominations of lawmakers, naming the former deputy prime...