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Thailand’s economy on weaker note in 2019
The Thai economy is likely to stay below the 3.5-per cent growth benchmark projected earlier for the...
Indonesia has 171 million Internet users
The number of Internet users in Indonesia grew by ten per cent
last year to 171 million, according...
Malaysia to set up property crowdfunding platform for affordable homes
The government of Malaysia’s is turning to an alternative form of real estate financing to help resolve...
Indonesia is ASEAN’s fastest growing smartphone market
Indonesia is now Southeast Asia’s fastest growing market for smartphones, according to market research firm Canalys. The...
Singapore ride-hailing firm Tada launches in Cambodia
Ride-hailing company Tada, a brand of Singapore-based tech
firm MVL Technology, announced that it has entered Cambodia through...
Laos set to build up a startup community
Young startups and entrepreneurs in Lao are now being helped
to utilise digital technologies to achieve their full...
Chinese firms keen on investment in Subic Bay shipyard, Clark air base
View over Subic Bay with Hanjin's shipyard in the background © Arno Maierbrugger
Chinese businesses are seeking...
Axiata, Telenor to create new Southeast Asian telecom giant
Axiata to merge Asian business with Telenor
The two telecom companies Axiata from Malaysia and Telenor from
Norway are...
Tourism arrivals on the upswing in the Philippines
International visitor arrivals to the Philippines grew by more than seven per cent to 2.2 million in...
Vietnam gets 3,000 electric buses to reduce traffic emissions and noise
A new non-profit bus service will bring at least 3,000 new electric buses to Vietnamese roads next...
Cambodia to extract and export its own crude oil
After nearly two decades of discussions and proposals,
Cambodia has announced it will begin to extract oil for...
Malaysia hopes for $2.4 billion in investments from Dubai Expo 2020
Malaysia aims at ten billion ringgit worth of potential investments and business deals from the Dubai Expo...
Singapore’s startup ecosystem grows to 150 VC funds, Malaysia follows
Singapore’s ambition to create an ecosystem to support
startups is gaining ground as the city-state is meanwhile home...
LG moves phone production to Vietnam, shuts down South Korea factory
South Korean electronics maker LG Electronics said on April
25 it would move its smartphone production from South...
Thailand, Laos, China to sign pact on high-speed railway
Thailand has agreed to sign a memorandum of cooperation with China and Laos for a rail link...
Japan keen on investing further in hybrid car industry in Thailand
Japanese companies are interested in investing more in hybrid car manufacturing in Thailand, the National News Bureau...
Lao bomb clearing teams struggle to get funding
Craters Restaurant decorated with cleared UXO in Phonsavan, Laos © Arno Maierbrugger
The clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO)...
Laos to launch electric vehicle charging system
Laos is stepping up efforts for the use of electric vehicles in the country and will be...
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