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Vietnam aims to become ASEAN’s leading digital economy
Vietnam aims to become the leading digital economy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by...
Vietnam’s new high-speed Reunification Express proposed for $26 billion
Vietnam’s ministry of planning and investment has presented a new concept for the country’s planned north-south high-speed...
Thailand gets first foodtech startup accelerator
Thailand, known for its delicious food and diverse restaurant scene, has been chosen by US-based workspace and...
Skoda plans to set up production in Myanmar
Car makers from the Czech Republic and Hungary are interested in assembling vehicles in Myanmar, according to...
Brunei’s “agripreneurs” boost agricultural output by 13%
Brunei’s gross agriculture output has increased by $56.65 million to $436.30 million, or around 13 per cent,...
Possible US outsourcing ban could hit Philippine BPO industry hard
A plan by US President Donald Trump to punish US firms
outsourcing jobs abroad or even ban the...
Austria’s Lenzing goes ahead with building world’s largest lyocell fiber plant in Thailand
Austrian industry group Lenzing AG, which makes cellulose fibers used in textiles, is now going ahead with...
Singapore to create 10,000 high-tech jobs
The Singapore government on June 26 said it has plans to create up to 10,000 jobs in...
Thai billionaire to build country’s first own electric cars
Energy Absolute, Thailand’s second-largest electricity generating company by market capitalisation owned by Thai billionaire Somphote Ahunai, plans to...
Sharp, LG move factories from Thailand and Vietnam to Indonesia
Sharp Electronics Indonesia headquarter in Karawang International Industrial City
Electronics companies Sharp from Japan and LG...
Vietnam’s first homegrown cars ready for delivery
Vietnam's first domestic carmaker VinFast will deliver its first cars on June 17, the company said as...
Vietnam to join world’s most dynamic markets by 2030
Ho Chi Minh City's new skyline © Arno Maierbrugger
Having reached amazing levels of progress in the...
Healthtech startups to change Indonesia’s healthcare landscape
Indonesia, a country notoriously underequipped with hospitals
and medical services and suffering from a chronic shortage of doctors...
Vietnamese e-payment startups merge and eye expansion to Myanmar, Indonesia
Two Vietnamese digital payments startups are merging to add scale for a new funding round and to...
Philippines gets major plastic bottle recycling plant
Coca-Cola’s Philippine branch will pioneer with an investment of one billion pesos ($19.3 million) to construct a...
Cambodians quickly adopting cashless payments
Cambodia is among the countries whose citizens are quickly adopting
cashless payments, the newly released Visa Consumer Payment...
Myanmar seeks to attract more international educational institutions
Foreign education providers are showing increasing interest in
opening branches in Myanmar, with several already having started to...
Vietnam’s IPO frenzy expected to cool down this year
Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange © Arno Maierbrugger
After a record year of share sales in...
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Cambodia’s construction sector in rapid expansion
Construction in Sihanoukville, Cambodia © Arno Maierbrugger
Cambodia’s construction sector attracted total investments
of $3.39 billion in the first...
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Cambodia’s construction sector in rapid expansion
Construction in Sihanoukville, Cambodia © Arno Maierbrugger
Cambodia’s construction sector attracted total investments
of $3.39 billion in the first...