Politics

Cambodia in a first for Southeast Asia’s developing countries will introduce a pilot scheme to add financial literacy into school curricula, the Phnom Penh...

The poverty rate in the Philippines rose to 18.1 per cent of the population in 2021, equivalent to nearly 20 million poor Filipinos, as...

Vietnam now has earmarked up to $58.7 billion for its planned high-speed railway from the north to the south of the nation, the government...

Energy-hungry Vietnam will need investments of between $8 billion and $14 billion a year up to 2030 to develop new power plants and expand...

Inflation in Laos increased to 25.6 per cent year-on-year in July from 23.6 per cent in June, according to the latest report from the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi Motors said it is intending to invest about ten trillion rupiah ($667 million) in Indonesia for the expansion of its existing...

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...

US tech companies Meta, operator of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and Google have finally signed up to Indonesian regulations that grant the government sweeping...

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...