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US companies eyeing relocation from China to Philippines amid trade war
Companies from the US are increasingly looking at the Philippines as possible alternative location for their existing...
Singapore aims to become regional hub for digital banks
Singapore is undertaking steps to become a regional hub for technology firms with advanced data expertise, particulally...
Thailand’s English language proficiency drops to “very low”
Sign in a grocery store in Bangkok
As every expat knows and foreign visitors are soon to realise,...
Thailand’s digital economy to grow to $50 billion by 2025
In Thailand, the digital economy is expected to grow to a volume $50 billion by 2025 from...
Indonesia’s Gojek to enter ride-hailing market in Malaysia, Philippines next year
Indonesia’s ride-hailing giant Gojek will expand into
Malaysia and the Philippines by 2020 as the company is looking...
Southeast Asia’s tallest tower open for business this December
Southeast Asia’s tallest skyscraper is set to open its doors this December after more than four years...
Special economic zone in Laos expects $10 billion in investments
A special economic zone in northern Laos bordering China is
anticipating investment of at least $10 billion to...
Online spending in Southeast Asia to quadruple to $120 billion by 2025
E-commerce spending in Southeast Asia will increase nearly fourfold to $120.9 billion by 2025 from $31.3 billion...
Singapore’s first automated underground bicycle parking system flops
Singapore’s first automated subterranean parking system for
bicycles, launched with much fanfare in January last year, will close...
Philippines to revise $180-billion “Build, Build, Build” plan to make it “more realistic”
Infrastructure construction in Makati
The Philippine government, after a phase of promoting its ambitious “Build Build Build” programme...
VinFast makes debut at Vietnam Motor Show
The VinFast Lux SA 2.0 is based on the BMW X5
Vietnam’s first home-grown car brand, VinFast, a...
Ride-hailing pioneer becomes new education minister in Indonesia
Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s new cabinet on October 23
appointed 35-year-old Nadiem Makarim, the co-founder and CEO of...
New mapping technology discovers 500 more Philippine islands
The Philippines has over 500 new islands, bringing the total number of islands in the archipelago to...
McKinsey tasked with assessing Indonesia’s new capital project
The Indonesian government has commissioned the local branch of US management consulting firm McKinsey & Company to...
Indonesia brings high-speed Internet to remote eastern provinces
Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo on October 14 announced the
completion of the last leg of a 13,000-kilometer fiber-optic...
Thailand will be host to cannabis festival next year
Thailand will host what it calls the “World Ganja Festival” next year, an event organised by the...
Brunei’s youth unemployment highest in Southeast Asia: IMF
Not much signs of wealth inside Brunei's floating villages © Arno Maierbrugger
At a whopping 31.7...
Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei jump in competitiveness, Philippines loses out
Ho Chi Minh City skyline at night
The World Economic Forum (WEF)’s competitiveness ranking for 2019 is out...
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Malaysia’s grey economy at 21% of GDP
The size of Malaysia’s shadow economy stands at around 300 billion ringgit a year, more than...
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Thailand’s English language proficiency drops to “very low”
Sign in a grocery store in Bangkok
As every expat knows and foreign visitors are soon to realise,...