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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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Immigration data of over 100 million foreign travelers to Thailand leaked
More than 106 million travelers who visited Thailand in the last ten years had their personal details exposed online in August 2021, UK-based data...
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Laos allows crypto trading and mining in first trial phase
The Lao government has authorised six companies to trade and mine cryptocurrencies in a move seen as an attempt to benefit from the crackdown...