Asean

(Nov 16): Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned that Southeast Asian nations may one day have to choose between the US and China, as concerns deepen about a Cold War-style conflict between the world’s biggest economies.

(Oct 20): Defence chiefs from the US and China agreed in principle to guidelines on encounters between warplanes, in the latest bid by Pacific nations to keep increased military activity from escalating into conflict.

SINGAPORE (July 20): Iran will sign a cooperation treaty with Southeast Asia at an upcoming meeting that will also be attended by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and North Korean officials, a Singaporean diplomat said.

SINGAPORE (Apr 5): CIMB says there are more winners than losers in Asean – among Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand (MIST) – in the escalating trade war between US and China.

SINGAPORE (Mar 27): The rise of China and new technology are expected to be the two key forces driving the biggest change in Asean in the next decade, says Maybank Kim Eng at its Invest Asean conference on Tuesday.

SINGAPORE (Feb 12): Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore and the Asean region see the need to invest more in technology in order to succeed under increasingly challenging conditions, according to a study shared today by United Overseas Bank (U

SINGAPORE (Jan 31): The entry of Chinese tech giants into the Asean e-commerce scene could see explosive growth for online retailing in the region, according to Credit Suisse research.

SINGAPORE (Jan 24): Morgan Stanley Research says investors should consider lightening up on North Asia and increasing weightage in Asean amid the re-emergence of US trade protectionism.

SINGAPORE (Dec 29): Singapore’s chief executive officers (CEOs) are the most confident in their country’s growth prospects as compared to their Asean peers, whom have broadly expressed muted confidence in the global and national economy as well their

SINGAPORE (Dec 20): OCBC is projecting for Singapore’s full year gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 2-4% in 2018 – a slightly more sanguine estimation compared to the anticipated 3.4% y-o-y growth for this year, amid the broadening domestic gr