Foreign direct investment

Southeast Asia drew $121 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) last year, making it the only sub-region in Asia to experience FDI growth, the...

Cambodia’s opposition on October 29 called on the international community to refrain from investing in or providing aid to prime minister Hun Sen’s government...

Indonesia is on course to meet its annual investment target as overall investment growth has been maintained at above 20 per cent in the...

The Lao Ministry of Planning and Investment has reported that the value of investment projects in the first 11 months of the fiscal year...

Vietnamese companies have invested a total of $14 billion in 60 countries and territories, the ´country's Ministry of Planning and Investment said on October...

US-based Deloitte Consulting which are giving consulting services in South East Asia countries is planning to make investment in Myanmar, sources say. A representative from...

The Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA) said on October 3 that it approved 428 manufacturing projects at an investment volume of RM28.3 billion ($8.8...

The Philippines climbed six notches to 59th place in the newly released Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014 by the World Economic Forum (WEF), from 65th...

As a no-questions-asked investor, China has been a clever bedfellow with Myanmar, notably the former military junta, a history that skewers sentiment negatively amid...

2012 was another good year for ASEAN economies, and 2013 is shaping up to be one as well. Despite a weak global economy, Thailand,...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into emerging market economies exceeded inflows into developed market economies for the first time last year, according to the...

Cambodia has undergone magnificent economic transformation in recent years despite a tumultuous history characterised by French colonisation, the extended Vietnam war, the following brutal...

Pledges for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam for the January-May 2013 period rose 8.9 per cent from a year earlier to $8.52 billion,...

Thailand's Board of Investment has said it will enforce a new investment regime by the beginning of 2015, giving more than 19 months for...

Investment into the newly opened economy of Myanmar have increased fivefold between the fiscal years 2011/12 and 2012/13, ending in March, the country's president...

The Philippine capital of Manila and almost half of Luzon experienced a blackout when about five power stations shut down just after sunset on...

Cambodia has reiterated that it is mulling the issuance of sovereign bonds, it emerged at the Asian Development Bank (ADB)'s annual summit in India...

Indonesia drew in a record 65.5 trillion rupiah (about $6.744 billion) in foreign direct investment (FDI) from January to March 2013, marking a 27.7...