Southeast Asia

SINGAPORE (Oct 24): Q3 was a quarter of top deals for Southeast Asia, spiking 81.8% on-year to US$26.7 billion ($36.3 billion) across 97 deals, according to Mergermarket’s latest Southeast Asia M&A trend report Q1-Q3 2017.

(Oct 5): Malaysia, and to a lesser degree Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, remain more exposed to exchange rate risk than other developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific as global financial conditions tighten, the World Bank said.

(July 25): Uber Technologies Inc. is at risk of losing out on another big chunk of the global market.

SINGAPORE (July 3): Two decades ago, several Asian economies were shattered by a series of financial, economic and political crises that set the region back badly.

HANOI (June 30): Vietnam’s economy recovered this quarter with a surge in exports allowing it to rejoin a small group of nations posting growth rates of more than 6%.

BANGKOK (June 30): Two decades ago, Thailand became ground zero of the Asia financial crisis, when its government scrapped a dollar peg with the baht, a devaluation that unleashed a wave of speculative attacks on other regional currencies and shook the gl

SINGAPORE (June 22): The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has forecasted a higher gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 2.7% for Singapore this year, citing improved growth dynamics and the ongoing recovery in global trade.

June (22): When Samak Srisarakham first came to Bangkok as an 11-year-old with his older brother, he slept in bare-bones communal bedding next to a tennis court. He could barely imagine growing up to a life of fancy restaurants, new clothes and the latest

SINGAPORE (June 20): United Overseas Bank (UOB) has signed a total of two Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with the Chinese Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC), China’s national business association, as well as Qiangjian Group, the largest constr

SINGAPORE (June 15): The overall value of private equity (PE) deals in Southeast Asia rose by 42% to reach US$7.8 billion ($10.7 billion), driven largely by the technology sector where the region’s two ride-hailing apps, Go-Jek and GrabTaxi, raised a to