Southeast Asia
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Penang Balances Heritage and Semiconductor Boom as Global Travel Spotlight Grows
Penang faces a challenge: preserving its UNESCO heritage while expanding its role in the global semiconductor industry.
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Southeast Asia’s digital economy to hit $368 billion as AI adoption accelerates
AI is driving Southeast Asia’s digital economy to $368 billion in 2026, according to a report by Google,…
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Agoda Uses Data To Map Travel Interest Ahead Of Major Events
By combining deep Asian market expertise with global inventory partnerships, Agoda predicts tourism trends to influence destination marketing…
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Indonesia deploys dry ice over South Sumatra as haze forces East Timor school closures
Indonesia attempts weather modification with dry ice to combat transboundary haze from peat fires, as air quality deteriorates…
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ASEAN Haze Agreement Faces Enforcement Gaps Despite Legal Framework
The 2002 ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution remains hampered by weak enforcement and Indonesia’s delayed ratification, limiting…
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Chinese Beverage Brands Invest in Southeast Asia to Capture $29.7 Billion Soft Drinks Market by 2030
KUALA LUMPUR, October 15 — Chinese beverage brands are expanding into Southeast Asia by investing in local production,…
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Mohamed Azlan Hashim: A Career Retrospective
Early life Azman bin Hashim was born on 17 July 1939 in Kuala Lumpur into a family of…
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Southeast Asia: Fewer Than Half of Tiger Trafficking Arrests Result in Convictions, Report
BANGKOK, October 5 — A groundbreaking report by the GuArdean Centre for Conservation Research, TRAFFIC, and WWF International…
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Najib Razak: From Malaysian Prime Minister to Convicted 1MDB Felon
Najib Razak, who served as Malaysia’s sixth Prime Minister from 2009 to 2018, began serving a 12-year prison…
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Anwar Ibrahim: From Prison Cell to Prime Minister
Few political lives bend as sharply as that of Anwar Ibrahim. Over five decades he moved from student…
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Thai court case risks election rerun and renewed political turmoil
BANGKOK, September 25 — Thailand’s Constitutional Court is weighing a case that could dissolve the Move Forward Party…
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ASEAN Pushes Multi-Destination Travel Across Southeast Asia
KUALA LUMPUR, September 25 — ASEAN Tourism has launched a regional campaign to sell Southeast Asia not as…
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Cambodia PM Cites Hundreds of Millions in Middle East War Losses
PHNOM PENH, September 23 — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said the country has absorbed hundreds of millions…
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Infrastructure Projects Face Challenges in Connecting South and Southeast Asia
DHAKA, September 19 — A retired Bangladeshi general has laid out why the roads and ports meant to…
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Chinese Manufacturers Expand Southeast Asia Ahead of Nanning Expo
NANNING, Sept 19 — Cumulative two-way investment between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has exceeded…
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Smoke Over the Strait: The Haze Crisis Smothering Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
The skylines of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur have spent much of September behind a grey-brown veil. Across the…
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Young Vietnamese Warm to Chinese Culture Despite Strategic Tensions
HANOI, September 15 — For years, Vietnam has been the textbook case against Chinese soft power in Southeast…
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Young Vietnamese Warm to Chinese Culture Despite Strategic Tensions
HANOI, September 15 — For years, Vietnam has been the standard example of China’s limited soft power in…
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Vietnamese Youth Warm To Chinese Culture And Entertainment
HANOI, September 14 — For years, the standard line on Vietnam was that Beijing had won the geography…
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Southeast Asia Travelers Raise Budgets, Hilton Study Finds
SINGAPORE, September 14 — The story begins with a number that Hilton’s researchers did not expect to dominate…
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Bangsamoro Region Holds First Parliament Election in Peace Process Test
Cotabato, September 14 — Voters in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao cast ballots on Monday, May…
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Vietnamese Youth Warm To Chinese Culture And Economic Opportunities
HANOI, September 13 — For years, Vietnam has been the standard example cited by analysts who argue that…
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Thailand: From Investment-Led Growth to Broad-Based Transformation
BANGKOK, September 9 — Thailand’s economy has grown better than expected despite a Middle East energy shock, supported…
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Explainer: What ASEAN’s New Digital Architecture Means for Canada
MANILA, Sept. 3 — Southeast Asia is set to sign the world’s first region-wide digital economy agreement this…
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