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Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo is about to sell its Myanmar operations to Singapore-headquartered technology firm The One Matrix Ventures, Reuters reported, referring to insiders. Ooredoo...

Qatar's telecommunications firm Ooredoo is in talks to sell its Myanmar unit amid the worsening economic and political climate in the country, Reuters cited...

Around 80,000 to 100,000 jobs for Oversea Filipino Workers, or OFWs, among them 30,000 household service workers, could be lost due to the precarious...

Vietnam and Qatar have decided to work closer in the field of food security as the Middle East country is looking for new import...

The Philippines on June 6 blocked the deployment of new overseas workers to Qatar as the gas-rich Gulf state started grappling with a diplomatic...

Members of the Royal Family of Brunei are among the financial backers of a plan by former Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan to launch...

Qatar's sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority agreed to buy Asia Square Tower 1 in Singapore for $2.5 billion from US investment firm BlackRock Inc....

Indonesia will prevent its female citizens from working as housemaids and domestic helpers in foreign countries earlier than widely expected, it emerged after a...

Norway’s Telenor said it would launch telecommunications services in Myanmar on Sept. 27, becoming the second foreign telecoms company to start operating in one...

Thailand’s largest hotel operator, Centara Hotels & Resorts, has said that it is eager to expand with new facilities in the Middle East as...

Outlook remains very positive, finds Barwa Bank CEO Steve Troop

Qatar's Ooredoo and Digicel Asian Holdings, a consortium of Jamaica-based Digicel Group, Yoma Strategic and First Myanmar Investment Co Ltd (FMI), said in a...

Brunei, although it has a small banking market, is still somehow underestimating the potential of Islamic finance as incentives to set up Shariah banking...

Good news emerged recently with regards to Qatar’s business involvement in Southeast Asia. Not only that the country’s telecom group Ooredoo announced that it...

Malaysia's total trade for the January-September 2013 period increased 2.4  per cent to RM1 trillion ($317.5 billion) in the same period of 2012, said...

The small city-state of Singapore is on the verge to become Asia’s new trading hub for liquefied natural gas, and this will be crucial...

As reported on October 16, an agreement is set to be signed this month between Thailand’s labour ministry and officials from Qatar to send...

Thailand's labour ministry is set to sign an agreement in October on conditions for the employment of Thai workers in Qatar, labour permanent secretary...