Covid-19 pandemic

Thailand saw just 3.78 million tourist arrivals from January to mid-August, a government official said on August 19 as arrival numbers are just slowly...

Myanmar’s workforce shrank by 1.1 million men and women from pre-Covid-19 and pre-coup times, two and a half years into the global pandemic and...

The casino industry in Cambodia is struggling to get back to pre-Covid-19 levels as the official casino ecosystem is failing to gain traction. The problem...

The Thai tourism industry, which never gets tired to find new ways of extracting extra money from foreign visitors, has come up with a...

The market value of the e-commerce sector in Cambodia increased to more than $970 million last year, up roughly 19 per cent from $813...

Tourism in the Asia-Pacific region will take longer to recover from the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the newly released “Travel-ready index 2022”...

Bangkok’s condominium market, which had great appeal to foreign buyers before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, saw a “modest improvement” in 2021, but the overall...

The Covid-19 pandemic – or, as some say, rather government-imposed restrictions in response to it – has increased poverty and dealt a blow to...

Manufacturing activity in and tourism bookings to Southeast Asia both improved since the beginning of the year, two separate sets of data show. Thailand’s manufacturing...

Indonesia is set to start producing its own mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines after the World Health Organisation (WHO) appointed the country as one of the...

The World Bank is maintaining a bleak outlook for Myanmar from the double whammy of the military coup on February 1, 2021 and the...

Thailand will begin collecting a 300-baht ($9) “entry fee” from foreign tourists starting from April regardless whether they enter the country by air, land...

Creditors of Indonesia’s struggling flagship airline Garuda Indonesia are seeking about 198 trillion rupiah ($13.9 billion) in claims as part of the carrier’s debt...

Philippine Airlines in a statement released on December 31 said it has emerged from bankruptcy after a US court approved its plan to slash...

Vietnam’s government reported that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 2.58 per cent in 2021, slowing from a 2.91 per cent expansion in...