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Remittances of overseas Cambodian workers bounce back in 2021
Money transfers back into Cambodia from nationals working abroad improved in 2021 after a Covid-19 induced slump in the previous year, with around 1.3...
Brunei rolls out roadmap for a post-oil economy
Brunei has been comfortably relying on oil and gas income for a long time, but things are changing now
Laos expects more private investment this year
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...
Jobless rate in Brunei jumped to 9.3%
Brunei’s unemployment rate rose to 9.3 per cent in 2017 from 6.9 per cent in 2014, latest available data from the Department of Statistics...
Vietnam records highest economic growth in a decade
Vietnam’s economy grew by 7.08 per cent in 2018, the fastest rate in the past eleven years and beating the target of 6.7 per...
Vietnam GDP growth highest in seven years
Vietnam’s economic growth in the third quarter was the highest in seven years, though overall inflation also started inching up in August and continued...
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AirAsia to launch ride hailing service in the Philippines and Indonesia
Malaysia’s Capital A, the holding company formerly known as AirAsia Group, plans to expand its ride hailing platform on its e-commerce platform “Super App”...
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Vietnam, India could replace China as Apple’s manufacturing hub – in the long run
US tech giant Apple has told its suppliers that it wants to expand contract manufacturing outside of China and is looking at Vietnam and...