Policy

Singapore plans to transform its energy consumption towards low-carbon electricity by 2035 and import up to four gigawatts of green power, the equivalent of...

Foreign investment into Myanmar has fallen dramatically in the months since the February 1 coup, having reached an eight-year low, the country's Directorate of...

Malaysian glove maker Supermax Corporation has become the next company to be put on a banned list over alleged forced labour practices, the fourth...

Cambodia has reintroduced its e-visa scheme for tourists after the country decided to gradually open its borders as distress from the Covid-19 pandemic eases. The...

Seemingly irrespective of civil unrest, countless skirmishes between guerilla-style freedom fighters and the army, over 300 roadside bomb attacks since the February 1 coup,...

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on October 15 ordered to halt license issuances for financial technology companies whose business entails digital lending to consumers and...

Singapore has plans to expand the city-state’s defense and security forces with mobile robots and through its state agency for defense science and technology...

London-headquartered cigarette maker British American Tobacco (BAT) will withdraw from military-ruled Myanmar by the end of this year and cease all of its operations...

The Philippines has been named one of the least attractive destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Asia-Pacific in a new ranking by Oxford...

Southeast Asia’s largest economy Indonesia is striving to develop an efficient and effectively enforced intellectual property (IP) ecosystem to stop rampant piracy and counterfeit...

The military government in Myanmar on September 30 said it was taking “full responsibility” for the country’s massive economic problems but at the same...

The Cambodian government has commissioned a US-based lobbying firm to improve the country’s image in United States and elsewhere, a report by US-sponsored news...

Philippine boxing legend-turned-politician Manny Pacquiao, nicknamed PacMan, declared on September 19 that he decided to run for president of the Philippine in the 2022...

Myanmar’s garment industry union leaders fear another 200,000 garment workers in the country could lose their jobs by the end of the year due...

The Lao government has authorised six companies to trade and mine cryptocurrencies in a move seen as an attempt to benefit from the crackdown...

Myanmar’s telecom service provider Mytel, the country’s third-largest mobile phone operator with a pre-coup and pre-Covid-19-pandemic market share of about 14 per cent, is...

A consortium of Indonesian companies together with university researchers has started to develop a variation of aviation fuel containing a small share of biofuel...

Thailand is desperately trying to revive its collapsed tourism industry by introducing new incentives for visitors, betting on higher vaccination rates against Covid-19 that...