The Philippines must deploy PHP1.07 trillion ($17bn) in fresh capital expenditures through 2030 to upgrade its water and sanitation network or face acute supply deficits within fifteen years.
China has opened a military training centre at a newly built airfield in Laos, giving the People's Liberation Army (PLA) a foothold that one regional analyst called its first full-fledged base in Southeast Asia.
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Bangkok has included two SMRs, with combined capacity of 600MW towards the end of its draft Power Development Plan 2026, marking a significant shift for a country that has discussed nuclear power for decades without building a commercial reactor.
The global gas industry is spending billions of dollars drilling new fields, constructing LNG terminals and securing supply routes while allowing huge quantities of the commodity it already produces to leak, vent or burn into the atmosphere.
Toxic smoke has forced widespread school closures, and has caused disruption to local commerce while degrading air quality across Indonesia, as well as in the neighbouring countries of Malaysia, Singapore, and parts of the Philippines.
Asia does not need hydrogen to replace every form of existing fossil fuel for the technology to become significant.
Beef production drove 41% of global forest clearance for farming and plantations in 2001-2023, Our World in Data reported on August 3.
Malaysian state energy company Petronas is in direct talks with Philippine buyers over LNG supplies.
Thailand received 20,935,135 foreign tourists in the first eight months of 2026, down 3.08% year on year.
BNM has maintained the 2.75% benchmark since delivering a preemptive 25 basis point rate cut in July 2025 to shield domestic growth from US trade tariff headwinds.
Central banks in Indonesia and Singapore have operationalised their bilateral settlement system, which highlights a step toward regional financial integration and currency diversification within ASEAN.
Acute respiratory infections in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, reached 165,727 cases between January 1 and August 22, the local health office reports.
China rejected an estimated 360 terawatt-hours of clean power in the six months through June, enough to supply Mexico for a year.
The report, carrying the somewhat dramatic title of ‘The Great Transshipment Scam’ and headed by an image of a Trojan horse style graphic, says Chinese exporters increasingly routed goods through third countries
Malaysia's five digital banks have signed up almost 2mn customers in barely two years, a fast start that has yet to loosen the grip of the country's entrenched lenders.
The cross-border crisis follows a rapid surge in satellite-detected hotspots and burnt territory across Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo.
Singapore’s domestic lenders are insulating overall earnings from global interest rate cuts by expanding their regional wealth management franchises.
Recent arrests across Southeast Asia, starting in Indonesia, have now reached Singapore and have exposed a troubling shift in regional narcotics smuggling originating in Malaysia.
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East, along with deficient rainfall, has raised concerns in India’s edible oil market, according to a recent report published in OpenMarkets, a global market insight platform of the CME Group.
Forensic drug testing revealed that the pilot actively operated the aircraft while under the influence of illicit substances.