Employment

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...

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

The new high-speed railway line that connects Laos’ capital Vientiane with the country’s northern border to China and from there leads to Kunming, the...

The Thai government is close to approving a potentially sharp rise in the daily minimum wage from a rate between 313 baht ($9.37) and...

Indonesia on December 21 began with the construction of a new industrial estate in its part of Borneo island which will focus on plants...

Nearly a third of total job losses in four Southeast Asian countries last year were linked to tourism as the Covid-19 pandemic brought the...

Thailand lost two million jobs in the tourism industry to the Covid-19 pandemic so far amid a...

Phuket's famous Bangla Road remains deserted Thailand has lost about 1.45 million tourism jobs since the Covid-19 pandemic...

Snapshot from a business fair for small and micro enterprises in Vientiane, Laos in 2020 The economy of...

Brunei has been comfortably relying on oil and gas income for a long time, but things are changing now

The European Union risks a trade war with Malaysia over its “grossly unfair” policies aimed at reducing...

Panhua Group, a Chinese steel company, will set up a steel factory  for $3.5 billion in investment at the PHIVIDEC Industrial Estate of the...

Indonesia’s national development planning ministry is targeting a national poverty rate next year of 8.5 per cent to 9.5 per cent, down from the...

Another warning has been aired that the Philippine economy, one of the fastest-growing in Asia, is in risk of overheating – just shortly after...

Singapore's total working population, excluding foreign domestic workers, shrank for the first time since 2003 by an estimated 10,700 last year, according to preliminary...

Taiwanese electronic giant Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer for consumer electronics including iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Playstation and Xbox, as well as many types...

A recent unintentionally hilarious, but nevertheless highly embarrassing case of "lost in translation" calls to mind that English proficiency is not at its best...

Greater economic vitality in the Philippines has put more disposable income in the pockets of members of the middle class, who are increasingly discovering...