Southeast Asia

Axiata to merge Asian business with Telenor The two telecom companies Axiata from Malaysia and Telenor from Norway are...

Thailand for the first time since 2014 – the year of the latest military coup – is faced...

Photo courtesy: AFP More than 190 million Indonesians, including some two million living overseas, are set...

In a bid to attract more tourists and reduce waiting times at border checkpoints, Laos’ ministry of...

Myanmar is close to legalize casino gambling in a bid to boost the local tourism industry and attract...

US petroleum and natural gas exploration company Murphy Oil Corp is exiting Malaysia with a $2.13 billion sale...

The newly released World Happiness Report 2019 by the United Nations shows that most Southeast Asian countries...

The Philippine transport regulator Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on March 19 rejected an appeal...

Two Vietnamese budget airlines signed $20.9 billion worth of deals on February 27 to purchase planes from Boeing and engines from General Electric (GE)...

Indonesian ride-hailing app Go-Jek officially launched its operations in Thailand on February 27 as part of its expansion into Southeast Asia. Under the brand...

Cambodia has been named the cheapest place to retire in 2019 by International Living, a magazine that focuses on the best places to live...

Thailand’s capital Bangkok has now become the second most expensive city to live in within ASEAN, only beaten by Singapore, according to a new...

The Philippines are topping the global country ranking of Internet usage per day with an average ten hours and 2 minutes of screen time....

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 area of opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar dropped for the fourth year in a row to 37,300 hectares in 2018 in the two...

China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, through its cloud computing arm Alibaba Cloud, on January 9 launched its second data center in Indonesia to cope...

Vietnam’s first homegrown ride-hailing service, FastGo, has kicked off operations in Myanmar as part of its Southeast Asia expansion plans. The firm partnered with...

Thailand has become the first country in Southeast Asia to approve legal use of marijuana by amending the country’s drug law to allow the...