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Indonesian e-commerce major expands in Australia
Indonesian e-commerce company Bukalapak will expand the workforce at its Melbourne technology hub in Victoria, Australia by hiring 100 new employees in the next...
Eight years after, Malaysia mulls new search mission for doomed flight MH370
Malaysian authorities are considering resuming the search mission for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after Australian air safety investigators have quietly launched a review of...
Cambodia kicks off first commercial gold production
Shortly after it turned out that Cambodia’s dream of becoming an oil-producing nation won’t fulfil in the...
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...
Thailand tourism arrivals, spending drop for the first time in years
Thailand for the first time since 2014 – the year of the latest
military coup – is faced...
Fives years on, Malaysia open to resume MH370 plane search
Malaysia will consider resuming the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 if companies interested in the hunt come forward with viable proposals or...
Chinese keen on Thai property
Chinese buyers and investors continue pouring their money into Thailand's property sector even as the country moves towards an uncertain national election in March.
According...
Thailand set to legalise weed for medical use
Thailand is readying to become the first Asian country to legalise marijuana, albeit just for medical use as the country does not want to...
Malaysian passport classified as fifth-best worldwide
The Malaysian passport has been ranked fifth among the best passports in the world in terms of visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to other countries...
Malaysia’s PM suggests review of Trans-Pacific Partnership
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad called for a review of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement in an interview with Japan's Nikkei Asian Review...
Malaysia’s new government likely to reopen Mongolian model murder case
The new government in Malaysia in its effort to clear dubious legal cases of the past involving former prime minister Najib Razak’s administration could...
Indonesia considers joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Indonesia is studying the possibility of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) without the United States, known as TPP-11. The country will discuss the matter...
Malaysia accepts US firm’s offer to resume search for flight MH370
The Malaysian government has eventually accepted US firm Ocean Infinity's “no find, no fee” offer to resume the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight...
Thailand: Evermore tourists come a-flocking
Thailand welcomed over 28.8 million international visitors from January to October 2017, the country’s Department of Tourism (DoT) announced. The number accounts for an...
US company to resume MH370 search, promises “no find, no fee”
The Malaysian government has chosen US-based maritime company Ocean Infinity to begin a new search for the missing plane of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370...
Singaporeans, Malaysians duped millions in alleged real estate Ponzi scheme
More than 1,700 private investors from Malaysia and Singapore have apparently been swindled of a total of almost $90 million by a Singapore-based property...
Australian PM hints at new search for missing flight MH370
The Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, suggested that the search for the missing plane of doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished on March...
MH370 families launch campaign to fund private plane search
Families of passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 4 launched a private funding campaign to search for the aircraft on...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...