Vietnam and the Philippines have been reclassified as upper-middle-income economies by the World Bank, leaving Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Timor-Leste as the only ASEAN members still in the lower-middle-income category.
The annual income classifications, released on 1 July, place seven of ASEAN's 11 members in the upper-middle-income bracket or higher....
Myanmar's military government plans to import fuel from Russia in an effort to alleviate supply concerns and rising prices.
Myanmar has maintained close relations with...
India is now looking to expand the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway to Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, in order to increase connectivity of the region.
ASEAN Briefing...
Vietnam has ordered tech firms to store user data locally and establish local offices in a new move to tighten cybersecurity regulations.
Reuters reports that...
The new tri-country freight train, or ASEAN express, between Malaysia, Thailand and Laos will begin operating in October of this year.
The Star reports...
Australian economist Sean Turnell, being held in Myanmar, has pleaded not guilty in closed courts to charges of violating the nation’s “official secrets act,”...
