Agriculture
Cambodia expects solid GDP growth of five per cent in 2022
Cambodia expects a swift recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in the course of 2022, supported by improving exports of garments and non-garment products, electronic...
Indonesia turns tech-savvy millennials into skilled farmers
In most parts of the developed and developing world, today’s youngest workforce cohort, the millennials, are tech-savvy youngsters attracted by respective city jobs, tech...
Singapore to invest heavily in food and agritech startups
Singapore has plans to substantially boost its domestic food industry over the next three years by promoting and funding innovative companies in the sector,...
Marijuana, Thailand’s new cash crop
Entrance to the marijuana growing complex at Rak Jang Farm (All pictures: Arno Maierbrugger)
Since the liberalisation of...
Chinese firms seek to set up large-scale durian plantations in Laos
Chinese companies have discovered Laos as a location to set up large-scale durian plantations to grow the...
Cambodia to open “smart farming” center
Smart farming could improve productivity and yields for Cambodian farmers
Cambodia in a cooperation with the South Korean...
Malaysia embraces “smart agriculture” in productivity push for the industry
Farming with tablets and drones is a new reality for Malaysia's agriculture sector
Malaysia is becoming one...
Singapore builds upon rooftop farming for food security
Rooftop farm of Edible Garden City, Singapore
Lacking sufficient agricultural space, Singapore is now boosting domestic food production...
Thailand seeks export markets for medical cannabis
Thailand is seeking ways to enter the global trade for medical cannabis after its production and use...
Brunei opens largest rice farm to boost food self-sufficiency
Brunei’s largest commercial rice farm has begun operations in Kandol in the western district of Belait, with...
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,...
ADB says Myanmar’s economy gets back on track
The legendary empty 20-lane-highway in Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw © Arno Maierbrugger
Myanmar’s economic growth, which has been...
Malaysia to unveil home-made flying car
Malaysia plans to unveil its first flying car prototype to the public this year, Minister of Entrepreneur Development Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof said on...
Indonesia gets ready to become Southeast Asia’s digital hub
Indonesia has set itself the goal to become nothing less than a regional digital hub in Southeast Asia as early as next year. To...
Laos lays out economic growth path
The Laos government has unveiled a new national development vision, which it plans to facilitate from 2021 to 2025.
The plan entails the transformation of...
EU reinstates import duties on rice from Cambodia and Myanmar
The European Commission has reinstated duties on rice from Cambodia and Myanmar for three years after determining that imports were causing economic damage to...
Jobless rate in Brunei jumped to 9.3%
Brunei’s unemployment rate rose to 9.3 per cent in 2017 from 6.9 per cent in 2014, latest available data from the Department of Statistics...
Vietnam records highest economic growth in a decade
Vietnam’s economy grew by 7.08 per cent in 2018, the fastest rate in the past eleven years and beating the target of 6.7 per...
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French, US energy giants exit Myanmar as junta-ruled country slips further into chaos
France’s TotalEnergies and US-headquartered Chevron, two of the world’s largest energy conglomerates, announced on January 21 that they were ceasing all operations in Myanmar.
As...
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Singapore orders shutdown of cryptocurrency ATMs
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), after it issued new guidelines for marketing and advertising of cryptocurrency services in the city state on January...