Policy

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cambodia has officially launched a new property investment visa programme dubbed “Cambodia – My Second Home” which is widely designed after its namesake Malaysia...

Indonesia has blocked web portal Yahoo, payments firm PayPal and a number of gaming websites as they neglected to comply with licensing rules, Reuters...

Indonesia is currently on the receiving end of very handy foreign direct investments as the attraction of the country’s car industry grows rapidly, boosted...

The Philippines finally withdrew from an infrastructure funding deal with China worth 276 billion pesos ($4.9 billion) after Beijing failed to deliver loans under...

US tech companies Meta, operator of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and Google have finally signed up to Indonesian regulations that grant the government sweeping...

Qatar's telecommunications firm Ooredoo is in talks to sell its Myanmar unit amid the worsening economic and political climate in the country, Reuters cited...

Indonesia on July 18 urged tech companies including Google and Meta, the owner the Facebook brand, to register under new licensing rules within two...

Indonesia is planning to get six million units of electric motorcycles on the road nationwide by 2025 as part of its efforts to cut...

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...