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Indonesia’s Widodo faces huge reform challenge
After his resounding victory in Indonesia's presidential race, Jakarta governor Joko Widodo now faces the daunting task of taking the world's third-biggest democracy forward as...
Drop rice subsidy scheme, IMF tells Thailand
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on Thailand to scrap its pricy scheme to support rice farmers and scale back some other fiscal stimulus...
Sustained Philippine GDP boom dependent on manufacturing
As Philippine President Benigno Aquino III preps for his mid-term State of the Nation Address, the grand majority of the archipelagic country, despite breakneck...
Thailand mulls taking Indonesia’s fuel-hike poison
Thailand is considering following the recent path taken by Indonesia to eradicate costly fuel subsidies, a programme that amounted to $8 billion in 2012...
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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...