Asia in Focus

Vietnam's manufacturing FDI hit a five-year high in 2025. The grid carrying it is funded at 40% of required capacity....

The factories are arriving. The power grid in Vietnam cannot keep up. The engineering graduates in Malaysia are not graduating...

Malaysia secures energy supplies until end July, Indonesia channels commodity exports through state monopoly sparking trade fears, Thailand positions itself...

Homepage Intro: Malaysia launches real-time dashboard to track supply crisis impact, Thailand fast-tracks OECD membership bid by 2028, AI boom...

Bank Negara Malaysia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Bank of Thailand each published a climate or AI risk...

ASEAN's central banks are absorbing energy, food and climate shocks arriving simultaneously……and the joint statement their finance ministers issued on...

Taiwan investors frustrated by Malaysia's visa bureaucracy, Singapore Airlines defends Air India losses citing India's market potential, Indonesia confronts $572...

Chinese-backed operators hold 58.4% of Johor's data centre capacity. Washington's AI chip Affiliates Rule returns in November 2026. Malaysia's non-aligned...

TNB has signed 7,100 MW of data centre electricity agreements and holds applications beyond 11,000 MW. Malaysia's water regulator has...

RM342 billion in approved digital investments. Second-largest developing-economy destination for digital FDI in the world, behind only India. The numbers...