Economic recovery

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...

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

Thailand is fully reopening the country on July 1, dropping all Covid-19 entry regulations which have been imposed for many months and were perceived...

With the easing of almost all restrictions to enter and enjoy a stay in Thailand, the country’s battered tourism industry is starting to recover,...

The domestic aviation market in Vietnam has been recovering at the fastest pace in the world so far this year with a growth of...

Philippine think tank Action for Economic Reforms (AER) has warned that a potential presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the country’s late...

The significant raise of Malaysia’s minimum wage by May 1 predictably does not find favour among businesses in the private sector, but some economists...

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”...

US financial services majors Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Asset Management have given business news channel CNBC their top picks for investments in Southeast Asia...

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

Travel industry experts fear that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could become a major road bump for the fragile recovery of tourism-dependent economies in Southeast...

A whopping 63 per cent of hotels in Thailand still recorded losses in February 2022, a result of ongoing restrictions after two years of...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte approved a law allowing foreign investment in more business sectors, Reuters cited his office as saying on March 4. The...

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...

Southeast Asia is entering a recovery phase from the Covid-19 pandemic, mainly helped by improving exports as the global economy is gradually strengthening, the...

Vietnam’s economic recovery is likely to accelerate in 2022 as gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to rise to 5.5 per cent from...

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...

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...