Fiscal

Faced with a debt crisis and various other economic problems, Laos saw its inflation jumping to 30.1 per cent year-on-year in August from 25.6...

Myanmar’s currency, the kyat, is continuing its rapid devaluation and has reached a record low against the US dollar and other major currencies in...

Thailand’s households are struggling with the highest level of debt in 16 years, according to a new survey by the University of the Thai...

In Singapore, hawker centers are one segment of the service economy directly affected by the city-state’s rising inflation. The famed low-cost eateries were forced to...

Thailand saw just 3.78 million tourist arrivals from January to mid-August, a government official said on August 19 as arrival numbers are just slowly...

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...

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’s central bank will issue its own digital currency for use by banks and payment services providers on the wholesale level, Perry Warjiyo, governor...

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...

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...

The Lao government has plans to reduce its ownership in national carrier Lao Airlines to 51 per cent in an attempt to get mounting...

The Philippines’ incoming tax agency chief Lilia Guillermo said she intends to collect the long-due estate tax from the family of President-elect Ferdinand Marcos...

The central bank of Laos has plans to ban the country’s residents from holding foreign currencies amid spiraling inflation and the rapid depreciation of...

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...

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...