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Faced with a debt crisis and various other economic problems, Laos saw its inflation jumping to 30.1 per cent year-on-year in August from 25.6...

Apple supplier Foxconn has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnamese developer Kinh Bac City to expand its existing manufacturing facility in the north...

The Philippines finally withdrew from an infrastructure funding deal with China worth 276 billion pesos ($4.9 billion) after Beijing failed to deliver loans under...

China continues to be the largest foreign investor in Laos, having invested about $16.4 billion into 833 projects so far, Vientiane Times cited the...

Vietnam is by some accounts likely to take over China as the “world’s manufacturing hub” amid lasting economic disruptions mainly caused by the Covid-19...

Facing a toxic combination of high external debt, dwindling cash reserves, surging inflation and a nosediving currency, the small Southeast Asian nation of Laos...

Faced with continued Covid-19 lockdown-related supply disruptions, Apple is moving some iPad production from China to Vietnam, while Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi has just...

US tech giant Apple has told its suppliers that it wants to expand contract manufacturing outside of China and is looking at Vietnam and...

The China-Laos railway, which opened in December last year, has experienced significant transportation growth since its launch both in terms of passenger and freight...

China’s largest battery producer, Contemporary Amperex Technology, or CATL, plans to join two state-owned Indonesian companies to develop an electric-vehicle battery integration project with...

Malaysian authorities are considering resuming the search mission for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after Australian air safety investigators have quietly launched a review of...

Smart Automobile, a joint venture of Chinese carmaker Geely and Germany’s Mercedes-Benz headquartered in Hangzhou, plans to sell China-built, Smart-badged electric vehicles in Southeast...

Cambodia exported 423,168 tonnes of fresh bananas in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 27 per cent, The Phnom Penh Post cited data from the...

Expectations are high about the positive impact of the new Chinese-built high-speed railway line that crosses landlocked Laos from north to south. Meanwhile, all...

Durian growers in Thailand are looking for a way to use the yet-to-be opened new China-Laos high-speed railway as a means of transport for...

Residents of Laos’ capital Vientiane on October 16 witnessed the arrival of the first passenger high-speed train running on the new Laos-China railway line...

The ultimate convenience food in Asia: Instant noodles Indonesia and Vietnam are the second- and third-largest instant noodles...

The Lower Sesan 2 dam has flooded large parts of an area in northeastern Cambodia A massive Chinese-financed...