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Malaysia on November 30 completed the spire of the Merdeka 118 tower in Kuala Lumpur, which will become the world’s second-tallest skyscraper at 678.9...

US e-commerce giant Amazon and retail chain Walmart are among the companies urged by activists to remove offers of gems originating from Myanmar, which...

In most parts of the developed and developing world, today’s youngest workforce cohort, the millennials, are tech-savvy youngsters attracted by respective city jobs, tech...

This year’s English Proficiency Index by Swedish language training company EF Education First has just come out, and, once again, it is not very...

A Myanmar military conglomerate is seeking to end a joint venture with Japanese beer giant Kirin and liquidate the brewery operations they are running...

Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG), which sees itself as the country’s legitimate administration in opposition to the ruling military junta, has been surprisingly...

Singapore has plans to substantially boost its domestic food industry over the next three years by promoting and funding innovative companies in the sector,...

Southeast Asia’s small and impoverished nation of Laos has issued new regulations to govern cryptocurrency mining operations and trading platforms in the country after...

The number of people in Thailand who need state welfare is expected to increase to 15 million next year from the current level of...

Singapore is getting tough with residents who refuse to get vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, a part of society that causes major headaches for...

The government of Laos is hopeful to leave the Least Developed Country (LDC) status of the nation by 2026 at the latest, calling economic...

US state authorities have warned US companies either operating in Cambodia or considering doing so against interactions with “certain entities and sectors of concern,”...

Norwegian telecom company Telenor is faced with a big backlash to its strategy of focusing on expanding in developing countries as Myanmar’s unrelenting junta...

Myanmar’s shadow government National Unity Government of Myanmar, or NUG, which has been set up as a pro-democracy group opposing the February 1  military...

Following a series of attacks by anti-junta fighters on mobile telecom towers in Myanmar that caused substantial damage to the structures and reduced network...

The Laos government in its new drive to boost the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the country expects to earn no less than two trillion kip...

Thailand on November 1 officially opened to vaccinated tourists and visitors from 63 countries in a bid to revive the country’s collapsed tourism industry,...

The Indonesian government, through its newly established sovereign wealth fund, signed an agreement with Dubai port operator DP World to develop seaports in Southeast...