Photo Credit: Straits Times Economy, Investment and Trade Chinese investment in Southeast Asia nearly doubles in 1H 2019 (14 August 2019) Chinese investment in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Southeast
HIGHLIGHTS 2Q19 GDP and current account Malaysia’s GDP growth accelerated to 4.9% yoy in 2Q19, a standout among Asean peers where growth momentum broadly weakened. Private consumption remained the cornerstone of the economy, while
ASEAN Fintech sector stands to help drive financial inclusion in ASEAN but requires region-wide policy harmonisation and reforming the ecosystem Kuala Lumpur, 15 August 2019 – Experts in both the public and private sectors
Photo Credit: Tencent Cloud Economy, Investment and Trade Chinese gaming company Tencent eyes Southeast Asia for launch of cloud gaming service (7 August 2019) China’s largest gaming company Tencent is picking Southeast
Photo credit: Vietnam News/Asia News Network TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT LAOS, THAILAND Daily freight train service launched between Laos and Thailand (5 August 2019) Laos and Thailand recently began operating a freight
Photo Credit: Kr-Asia Economy, Investment and Trade Tencent and Baidu introduce video streaming services into crowded Vietnamese market (30 July 2019) Chinese technology giants Tencent and Baidu started offering video-on-demand (VOD) services
Photo credit: Myanmar Times TRADE, ECONOMY, AND INVESTMENT MYANMAR, THAILAND Myanmar, Thailand, Japan to form a committee to develop Dawei SEZ (25 July 2019) The Myanmar, Thailand and Japan governments will form
Originally published in TheEdge Malaysia, 29 July – 4 August 2019 edition. The controversy over the rare earths industry in Malaysia seems to have fallen down a rabbit hole of simplistic questions chasing simplistic
Photo Credit: Reuters Economy, Investment and Trade China, Singapore launch cold chain product trade platform (26 July 2019) China and Singapore industry players launched on July 25 an intergovernmental cold chain product
ASEAN must chart a new vision to guide the bloc moving towards 2040 due to the changing externalities confronting ASEAN including the rising regional competition from China and India, the ongoing US-Sino rivalry, and