Buyers of electric vehicles and consumers of a diet cola in India may seem to be two groups with little in common, but they are both at risk from the fallout from the ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Shares in Malaysian dairy producer Farm Fresh Berhad opened 26% higher than the offer price at its market debut on Tuesday, in the country's largest listing since July last year.
Financial technology (fintech) funding in Southeast Asia jumped more than three times in the first nine months of this year compared with full-year 2020, reaching a record $3.5 billion, a report showed on Wednesday.
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) said on Wednesday it will integrate its three securities units into its global markets division as Singapore's second-largest lender seeks to streamline operations and boost its equities business.
Singapore-headquartered private healthcare company Health Management International, or HMI Medical, said on Friday it is acquiring a majority stake in Advanced Urology Associates, the largest private urology specialist group in the country.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and echoed calls for an immediate ceasefire made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which Cambodia currently chairs.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will open up more countries for hotel quarantine-free travel later this week, The Sunday Telegraph reported, saying that the UK's "red list" of destinations would be slashed to nine from 54.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that he hoped to strike deals for France in areas such as defence, energy and tech innovation, as he arrived in Vietnam for the start of a roughly week-long trip in Asia.
Malaysia will reopen its borders to international visitors by Jan. 1 at the latest, a government advisory council said on Thursday, as the country seeks to revive its ailing tourism sector.
Asian bonds attracted their first monthly foreign inflow in three months in August, as expectations of U.S. Federal Reserve rate cuts to support a cooling labour market boosted demand for higher-yielding emerging markets.
The demonstrators are denouncing their respective governments around the globe from Madagascar and Morocco to the Philippines and Peru, demanding better access to education, healthcare, pensions and climate change mitigation.
In the teeming, impoverished North Jakarta neighbourhood of Muara Baru, people have made a grim joke out of the acronym for the Indonesian government's lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic: PPKM.
Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupted several times on Friday following a big eruption on Sunday night that killed nine people.
At least 17 Rohingyas were killed and 30 remain missing after a boat capsized in bad weather in the Bay of Bengal earlier this week, aid workers in Myanmar said.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been awarded the hosting rights for the fourth round of Asia's 2026 World Cup preliminaries in October, the Asian Football Confederation said on Friday.
India's Godrej Agrovet reported a nearly 3% rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday, as sluggish growth in its mainstay animal feed business was offset by strong growth in its crop protection and palm oil businesses.
Asia's economic growth could outpace developed countries' by 5% by end-2023 driven by China's easing of COVID-19 curbs, strong domestic demand and interest rates staying in less-restrictive territory, said Morgan Stanley economists.
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck deep off of Indonesia's Java island on Friday, but there was no risk of tsunami, the country's geophysics agency said.
The first 120,000 doses of CoronaVac, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech that is being tested in Brazil, arrived at São Paulo's international airport on Thursday morning, the state government said.
Indonesia's trade surplus likely widened in November from a month earlier to $3 billion, even as exports were expected to have shrunk further on a yearly basis, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday.