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Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...

The Philippine government has awarded a consortium backed by South Korean and European companies and led by Samsung Group’s construction arm the $11-billion deal...

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 exiles ousted in a 2021 coup are pressing the US Federal Reserve to endorse their bid to use billions of dollars in funds...

The Indonesian government is planning to establish its envisaged “crypto stock exchange” by the end of 2022, DealStreetAsia cited the country’s deputy trade minister...

Thailand’s embattled flag carrier Thai Airways International has set the course to recovery as its creditors have accepted the carrier’s revised rehabilitation plan The airline...

The wife of the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, Rosmah Mansor, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for soliciting and receiving...

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...

Najib Razak, prime minister of Malaysia between 2009 and 2018, has finally been sent to jail to start serving a 12-year sentence for his...

Indonesia has urged US electric vehicle maker Tesla to manufacture its cars and vehicle batteries in the country, Bloomberg News cited the nation’s President...

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...

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...