Southeast Asia

Indonesia built Danantara to fix its governance credibility problem. The MSCI crisis has revealed the paradox: the fund's borrowing capacity...

While markets fixate on Indonesia's MSCI deadline, two compounding crises are running simultaneously - a budget haemorrhaging IDR 6.7 trillion...

On 27 January 2026, MSCI gave Indonesia four months to fix its markets or face demotion. Regulators moved fast. A...

Microsoft is building Thailand's AI infrastructure. The government needs 1.087 million high-skilled professionals by 2029. The programmes exist. The timeline...

On 31 March 2026, Microsoft committed USD 1 billion to Thailand's AI infrastructure. The next morning, Thailand's leading business body...

Vietnam's long-awaited FTSE upgrade to Emerging Market status takes effect September 2026, triggering mandatory inflows of up to US$ 6...

Johor's emergence as Southeast Asia's hyperscale finance benchmark traces to a single 2019 decision in Singapore, and a US$ 900...

Malaysia's July 2025 tariff reclassification is forcing a structural rethink of hyperscale data centre financing - from pass-through clauses to...

Malaysia leads Southeast Asia's data centre boom, but a July 2025 power tariff overhaul has reset the cost base for...

The Philippines' US$40 billion BPO sector posted record growth in 2025. But 83% of revenue sits in contact centres, exactly...