Since its establishment in 1981, the ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC) has been working to strengthen economic partnerships between Association of Southeast Asian Nation member states and Japan in the areas of…
Malaysia’s BigPay scores $100m investment
BigPay, the fintech arm of airline AirAsia, has secured an investment of up to US$100 million from South Korea’s SK Group. Founded in 2017, BigPay offers users in Malaysia and Singapore a digita…
Think tank: Bangladesh miles ahead of Pakistan
In the past 20 years, Bangladesh’s GDP per capita increased 500%, two-and-half times that of Pakistan Bangladesh, the country whose infrastructure was ravaged by the Pakistani occupation force i…
Bangladesh on cusp of industrial revolution
Bangladesh is on the cusp of an industrial revolution as incomes rise and technology plays an ever-increasing role in the economy, according to HSBC. “Urbanisation, smaller households and more w…
ADB, New Hope sign $20-million deal to finance agriculture projects
THE ASIAN Development Bank (ADB) and New Hope Singapore Private Ltd. (NHS) signed a $20-million loan agreement that will extend financing assistance to farmers in South and Southeast Asia, including t…
A World of Networks: taking advantage of change in Vietnam
Watch on Youtube The past few years have seen disruption across the Asia Pacific region of enormous scale. But disruption is not always negative and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and US-China geopolit…
Port in a storm: No end in sight to global shipping chaos
For the global shipping industry, chaos began with the tap of a million “buy now” buttons. In the second half of 2020, Americans, trapped at home by the pandemic, started buying weighted b…
Asean Today – Jul 2021
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Myanmar army ruler takes prime minister role, again pledges elections
Myanmar’s military ruler Min Aung Hlaing has taken on the role of prime minister in a newly formed caretaker government, state media reported on Sunday, six months after the army seized power fr…
India can help PH develop renewable energy
INDIA can provide financing and technology for the development of the renewable energy industry in the Philippines, an energy stakeholder said on Thursday. In a virtual forum organized by The Manila T…