Foreign direct investment

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

Ho Chi Minh City skyline at dusk In stark contrast to Thailand, Vietnam has been named to be...

Ho Chi Minh City skyline © Arno Maierbrugger Booming Vietnam has become Southeast Asia’s top receiver of foreign...

Despite efforts by the Myanmar government to meet its foreign direct investment (FDI) target of $5.8 billion during...

Brunei’s oil and gas industry is expecting investments of about $20 billion in the coming years and...

Mandalay street market © Arno Maierbrugger The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expressed concern about the Myanmar economy...

Malaysia's economy continues to be strong and GDP is expected to expand a further 4.9 per cent in 2019 even with a decline in...

With growth rates of around seven per cent in recent years, Laos is one of the best performing in ASEAN. The country’s GDP rose...

Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi appear prominently among the global Top 10 most dynamically growing cities in the new City Momentum Index...

The Communist Lao government expects domestic and foreign private investment to climb to 23,086 billion kip ($2.7 billion) in 2019 from around $2.36 billion...

The Philippine government on December 14 signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese companies for the joint implementation of the “Philippine Iron and Steel...

Malaysia’s foreign direct investments (FDI) volume increased to 49 billion ringgit ($11.72 billion) for the first nine months of this year compared with the...

Thailand's economy slowed in the third quarter this year as the trade war and a slowdown in tourism started to bite, prompting the government...

The Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) came up with an ambitious business plan that includes a major investment promotion strategy aiming to attract more than...

Just shortly after a similar deal with Vietnam was settled, the European Union (EU) and Singapore signed free-trade and investment protection agreements in Brussels...

The Malaysian government will no longer allow property developments and new townships solely aimed at foreign buyers in a bid to reduce “mindless foreign...

American IT giant Amazon is planning a 14 trillion-rupiah ($945 million) investment in Indonesia, according to The Straits Times, which referred to local news...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who previously had confessed his inadequacy on economic issues, is seeking help from people more fit in the subject. The...