Foreign direct investment

Chinese car maker BYD Auto said it would set up a facility in Thailand to start producing 150,000 passenger cars per year from 2024. The...

Vietnam received nearly $16.8 billion in foreign direct investment as of August 20 this year, down 12.3 per cent anually, according to the country’s...

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

Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi Motors said it is intending to invest about ten trillion rupiah ($667 million) in Indonesia for the expansion of its existing...

Samsung SDI, the battery and electronic materials manufacturing unit of South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group, will build a second battery plant in Malaysia to...

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...

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo investment in the country’s planned new capital, Bloomberg News cited a statement by the...

The economy of Myanmar has fallen in turmoil so drastically since the military coup on February 1, 2021 that the World Bank said it...

US electric carmaker Tesla has apparently agreed to invest in battery and electric vehicle manufacturing plants in Indonesia, the country’s investment minister Bahlil Lahadalia...

Malaysia has attracted 16.52 billion ringgit ($3.8 billion) worth of new investments commitments through its trade mission in the US this year so far,...

British household appliance maker Dyson will invest $1.1 billion in Singapore over the next four years as part of its $3.6-billion global investment plan,...

Southeast Asia is increasingly cementing its role as global technology manufacturing hub, with Singapore and Malaysia leading in the semiconductor sector. The two countries are...

South Korea's Samsung Electronics will invest $920 million in a production facility in northern Vietnam, government officials of the country said on February 16. The...

US chip manufacturer Intel will invest 30 billion ringgit ($7.1 billion) in a new state-of-the-art facility for advanced semiconductor packaging technology at its existing...

Norwegian telecom company Telenor is faced with a big backlash to its strategy of focusing on expanding in developing countries as Myanmar’s unrelenting junta...

Foreign investment into Myanmar has fallen dramatically in the months since the February 1 coup, having reached an eight-year low, the country's Directorate of...

The Philippines has been named one of the least attractive destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Asia-Pacific in a new ranking by Oxford...

Myanmar’s economy is in free fall after the February 1 coup that threw the country into substantial turmoil and probably decades back in development,...