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Lufthansa banking on Southeast Asia
Business, Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 27/10/2023
» Lufthansa Group, a global aviation group, is banking on growth in Southeast Asia as flight frequency has already reached pre-pandemic levels, recovering more quickly than it has in North Asia.
Healthy ageing in Southeast Asia
News, Pattana Promphat & Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Published on 20/10/2025
» The Southeast Asia region is undergoing one of the most profound demographic shifts in its history. By 2050, the proportion of people aged 60 years and above will nearly double -- from 11.3% in 2024 to 20.9%. That means 441 million older people -- one in five people -- will call this region home. This transformation is both a triumph of public health and a test of our collective will and capacity to adapt.
Impacts of Iran war on Southeast Asia
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 20/03/2026
» For the most part, Southeast Asia as a region has taken a neutral stance toward the joint attack between the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Even the Philippines and Thailand, two formal US treaty allies, have distanced themselves, calling for restraint and de-escalation.
Stocks across Asia nosedive
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 13/05/2022
» The Thai bourse plunged yesterday, in line with global stock and cryptocurrency markets, as investors worried the Federal Reserve may implement more aggressive rate hikes to tackle runaway inflation.
Philippine stocks lead Southeast Asian peers
Reuters, Published on 30/07/2018
» Most Southeast Asian shares rose on Monday, with Indonesia gaining for a seventh straight session, while investors awaited the outcome of central bank meetings in Japan and the United States for cues on monetary policies.
Indonesia stocks lead Southeast Asian peers
Bangkok Post and Reuters, Published on 20/09/2018
» Most Southeast Asian stock markets, led by Indonesia, rose on Thursday, in line with broader Asia on continued relief that the recent tit-for-tat tariffs by the United States and China were less harsh than feared.
Asia-Pacific investors head to Southeast Asia for acquisitions
South China Morning Post, Published on 24/04/2019
» Corporate executives in the Asia-Pacific region remain upbeat on international investments, although interest in Southeast Asia has begun to displace previously favoured destinations, according to a survey by law firm Baker McKenzie.
Coronavirus and democracy in Southeast Asia
Oped, James Gomez & Robin Ramcharan, Published on 01/04/2020
» In Southeast Asia, as the health crisis escalates and countries go into different variations of a lockdown, it is affording regimes with authoritarian tendencies the opportunity to suppress political expression, enforce strict obedience and consolidate their rule. Unless this is called out and actions taken to address these measures, a post-Covid-19 Southeast Asia will put democracy on the backfoot in the region.
Southeast Asia-US relations under Trump
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 18/05/2018
» Widely despised at home and abroad, US President Donald Trump is still in office well over a year into his controversial first term. Daily headlines from the leading media of the world have suggested from the outset that he is likely to be impeached, that his presidency is destined to be derailed due to this or that scandal. In the predominant view of the global intelligentsia more broadly, Mr Trump has been so damaging and toxic to the fabric of American democratic values and to the coherence and longevity of the rules-based liberal international order that has lasted over the past seven decades that he should not be allowed to last a full four-year term.
Embedding S Korea in Southeast Asia
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 19/11/2019
» For three days from Nov 25-27 in the port city of Busan, South Korean President Moon Jae-in will have a rare opportunity that eluded his predecessors -- to set in cast iron the future and shape of South Korean-Asean and Mekong riparian country relations amid the ever-changing regional and international environment.