Obama to be first US president to visit Laos
President Barack Obama will be the first US head of state to visit Laos when he attends an Asean summit in the landlocked country...
Philippines wakes to debt-trap peril
The Philippines seems to have caught up with its neighbours like Malaysia in waking to the perils of signing up to Chinese infrastructure projects....
Vietnam’s developer boosts bonds
The Bitexco Financial Tower, a skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City. Source: Wikimedia
The largest listed Vietnamese property developer is backing the dormant bond market, selling...
US and Brunei launch naval exercise
The USS Lassen. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
On November 2, the United States and Brunei began an annual military exercise at Muara Naval Base in the...
Beijing called to respect court’s maritime ruling
The overlapping claims to the South China Sea. Source: Flickr
Manila has urged Beijing to respect an arbitration court’s ruling in The Hague on the...
Korean firm blamed over fires
Too little is done to protect Indonesia's rainforest. Source: Flickr
Video has emerged of a Korean palm oil company allegedly illegally burning vast areas of...
Papuans held at independence protests
Around 300 Papuan activists calling for independence protested in the country's second-largest city of Surabaya to call for a referendum on independence.
A lawyer...
Panglong talks set for May 24
Myanmar will hold peace talks on May 24 aimed at ending decades-long ethnic wars that have intensified since State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi...
Chinese plan US$2bn Malaysia HQ
Chinese CRH2C trains at Shanghai Hongqiao station. Source: Wikimedia
China Railway Group wants to spend US$2 billion building a regional headquarters in Malaysia as a...
MAS bans ex-Goldman Sachs banker
Goldman Sachs Tower in Jersey City, NJ.
The Singapore authorities have banned ex-Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner from its securities industry for 10 years and...
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Singapore to ban sugary drink adverts
Singapore, which has some of the world’s highest diabetes rates, is to become the first country to ban advertising for sugary drinks, according to...
Singapore eases monetary policy for first time in 3.5 years
Singapore’s central bank loosened monetary policy for the first time in three-and-a-half years on Monday, while the trade-reliant economy narrowly dodged recession in the...
Indonesia’s Papuan lies continue
Indonesia has opened its Sorong Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on a 524-hectare site in the troubled province of West Papua.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony,...