Politics

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

US electric vehicle company Tesla has registered a company in Thailand on May 25 with the primary purpose to sell its battery-powered cars in...

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...

Malaysia has attracted 16.52 billion ringgit ($3.8 billion) worth of new investments commitments through its trade mission in the US this year so far,...

The eastern Malaysian state of Sarawak has entered talks with Norway to set up and manage a sovereign wealth fund from oil and gas...

Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob during his four-day working visit to Washington, D.C. on May 11 has invited US businesses, particularly Fortune 500...

Philippine stocks dropped to a new nine-month low on May 10, the day after Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, won...

Philippine think tank Action for Economic Reforms (AER) has warned that a potential presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the country’s late...

Russia’s biggest truck manufacturer Kamaz is set to start vehicle production in Myanmar as the company is increasingly losing access to other markets due...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private development lending division, is faced with a complaint by two Cambodian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for...

With a recent relaxing of entry rules, most of Southeast Asia is reacting to the easing Covid-19 pandemic and reopening for travel, with airlines...

The government of Laos has agreed in principle to a minimum wage increase amid rising cost of living and rampant inflation in the country,...

Malaysia awarded digital banking licenses to five companies out of a total 29 which have applied for them, the country’s central bank said in...

Indonesia is seeing a new addition to its commercial air travel industry with the expansion of Pelita Air into scheduled routes to domestic destinations. Pelita...

The significant raise of Malaysia’s minimum wage by May 1 predictably does not find favour among businesses in the private sector, but some economists...

Indonesia’s parliament on April 22 approved the government’s plan to raise the capital of flagship carrier Garuda Indonesia by 7.5 trillion rupiah ($518.31 million)...

Indonesia, the world's largest producer of palm oil, on April 22 announced an export ban amid a continuing cooking oil crisis in the country....

Myanmar’s central bank has announced an exemption for foreign entities from a controversial new policy requiring all their foreign exchange held in banks or...