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

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...

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)...

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...

US financial services majors Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Asset Management have given business news channel CNBC their top picks for investments in Southeast Asia...

The military government in Myanmar in an attempt to get more control over foreign currency flows has ordered all holders of foreign currency in...

The Indonesian government will charge value-added tax (VAT) on crypto transactions and income tax on capital gains from crypto investments at 0.1% each, starting...

The Indonesian government is not ruling out the use of crowdfunding to raise funds for the development of the planned new capital Nusantara in...

The Thai government finally decided to ban the use of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment for goods and services, fearing that a wider...

If it goes after Malaysia’s communication ministry, the country should follow El Salvador as the next nation to adopt cryptocurrencies as legal tender, Bloomberg...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will support Indonesia in setting up its planned $32-billion capital city on Borneo island by "mobilising" financing and assessing...

Brunei plans to expand production in the upstream and downstream oil and gas sectors after a new discovery of 42 million barrels of oil...

Oversea Filipino Workers, or OFW, sent home a record high of remittances through banking channels of $31.4 billion last year despite the prolonged Covid-19...

Total receipts from tourism in all of Thailand’s 77 provinces slipped to another historic low in 2021, declining by 69.6 per cent to 241.4...

Southeast Asia is entering a recovery phase from the Covid-19 pandemic, mainly helped by improving exports as the global economy is gradually strengthening, the...

A Southeast Asian economic think tank has warned that the small nation of Brunei needs a broader “strategic plan” to diversify its economy away...

The World Bank is maintaining a bleak outlook for Myanmar from the double whammy of the military coup on February 1, 2021 and the...