East Asia and Pacific is on track to grow by 4.5% in 2026 despite global headwinds.
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.
Asia does not need hydrogen to replace every form of existing fossil fuel for the technology to become significant.
The United States has removed Venezuela from its list of countries deemed to have "failed demonstrably" to combat drug trafficking, the first time Caracas has come off that designation since 2005.
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
Russia and Myanmar signed ten documents in the Kremlin on August 18, including a joint declaration on countering Western sanctions.
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Russia is one of the few major countries to have maintained close ties with Myanmar’s military rulers since the 2021 coup. Much of the West has instead isolated the government.
International Energy Agency data shows that Myanmar and China together account for about 83% of global mined supply of heavy magnet rare earth elements.
The winners are likely to be countries capable of building integrated ecosystems spanning renewable generation, batteries, charging networks and EV manufacturing.
Analysts consider Myanmar's civil war to be the deadliest active conflict in Asia with the country the world's second-most conflict-affected region last year after the Palestinian territories.
The ASEAN summit held in Russia last week was one of the Kremlin’s biggest diplomatic successes since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Because of the firm's scale, an uncontrolled insolvency was never an option for Malaysian regulators, as the company was too embedded in the domestic O&G ecosystem, supporting over 59,000 jobs in the nation's energy sector.
Across Asia, governments are now accelerating approvals for renewable projects and grid modernisation schemes. Battery storage investments are making headlines almost daily.
The tentative peace agreement between the United States and Iran has been greeted with a mixture of relief and caution across much of East and Southeast Asia, a region that has borne more than its fair share of the economic fallout of late.
As of mid-2026, China remains the centre of gravity in the EV world.
Taiwan has struggled to secure LNG supplies through May and finalised contracts covering roughly half of June demand, but additional procurement costs are expected to reach into the billions of US dollars to complete.
There will be no real winners in traditional tourism this summer – only airlines, tourist destinations and central banks left counting the cost.
Electricity demand across the wider ASEAN region is rising rapidly. Manufacturing expansion, electric vehicle adoption and the construction of energy-intensive data centres are driving consumption higher and higher every day.