JAKARTA: Indonesia plans to build one of its largest industrial parks on the north coast of Java island in a renewed drive to attract manufacturers relocating out of China as Southeast Asia's biggest economy comes out of a coronavirus-induced lockdown.

TOKYO: Japan plans to ease its coronavirus travel restrictions by letting in up to around 250 foreign travelers per day from Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Vietnam, government sources said.

BAC GIANG, Vietnam: Hundreds of lychee farmers sorted and graded huge piles of the tropical fruit at a busy wholesale market in northern Vietnam yesterday, but many bemoaned slumping prices as foreign traders were held up in quarantine.

The cabinet has approved a draft bill requiring foreign digital service providers to pay a value-added tax (VAT), making Thailand the latest country in Southeast Asia to seek to boost tax revenue from international technology companies.

Vietnam ratified a landmark trade deal on June 8 with the European Union that is expected to energize the country’s manufacturing sector and exports, as it recovers from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. 

HANOI: Vietnam ratified a free trade agreement with the European Union on Monday that will cut or eliminate 99% of tariffs on goods traded between the Southeast Asian country and the bloc, and provide Vietnam with a much-needed post pandemic boost.

HANOI: Vietnam will import 20,000 breeding pigs from Thailand this year, state media said on Thursday, as the country is seeking to rebuild its hog herd battered by an African swine-fever outbreak.

As Thai markets closed for a holiday, most Southeast Asian stocks fell in low-volume trade on Wednesday as poor economic data capped risk sentiment, but Vietnam jumped more than 2% to its best session in more than a month.

Indonesia’s economic growth slowed sharply in the first quarter of the year, amid expectations the coronavirus pandemic will take an even heavier toll on Southeast Asia’s biggest economy in months ahead.

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Online learning startup Manabie International Pte. Ltd., headed by a Japanese entrepreneur, is stepping up its business in Vietnam, raising ¥520 million ($4.8 million) in ...

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) dialogue partners are advancing the review of legal texts, expecting the process to finish in July so the pact can be signed later in the year during the Asean Summit as scheduled.

As it takes on the mantle of chair of the ASEAN in 2019, the Kingdom of Thailand has maintained an extremely favourable business environment.

HANOI: Vietnam will not sign any new rice export contracts until Saturday at the earliest as it checks whether it has sufficient domestic supplies to cope during the coronavirus outbreak, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.

Dialogue partners remain committed to signing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) by the end of the year as scheduled despite the spreading coronavirus, which has put off most face-to-face meetings of Asean, the World Trade Organization, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the RCEP in the first half of the ...

Indonesia announced a 120 trillion rupiah ($8.1 billion) stimulus package yesterday to support Southeast Asia's biggest economy as the spread of the coronavirus disrupts global activity.

In November 2019, the National Assembly of Vietnam issued a new version of the Labour Code, which serves as the principal legislation on employment and labour relationships in Vietnam, covering domestic and foreign employers and employees. The changes in the new law are more incremental than sweeping, and generally serve ...

The EU has expressed interest in pursuing a number of free trade agreements (FTAs) in the region, not only with Thailand but eventually with Asean as a whole, says EU-Asean Business Council Chairman Donald Kanak.

Conservationists see a persistent threat of epidemics so long as tens of millions of animals are traded in Southeast Asia.