Social Media Ideas for Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is luxury testbed for China's big new export drive

Which are the best cities in Southeast Asia for international students?

With world-class universities, affordable living costs and vibrant multicultural communities, several Southeast Asian cities have become increasingly attractive destinations for in...

From Vietnam to Malaysia, Southeast Asian IPOs haul in $3bn in first half

Jeremy Douglas on Southeast Asia’s Drug Boom

"This is a region that is arguably now the largest epicenter of synthetic drug production in the world," says the UNDOC deputy director.

Which Southeast Asian country ranks second globally in population density?

This country has a population density of 8,225 people per square kilometer, making it the world’s second-most densely populated country.

Southeast Asia should work as one to help content flourish overseas

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for oak trees, many under ‘dire threat’

Southeast and East Asia may be famous for towering dipterocarps or massive conifers, but a new report highlights that the region is also home to more threatened oak species than an...

Meeting the War Veterans Across Southeast Asia 

Thinking Southeast Asia is not a typical YPT destination? Well, think again.  While Southeast Asia has become a popular backpacker route over the years, there is another side of th...

680 million people, a US$600 billion digital economy: Southeast Asia’s AI moment

If you ask most people where the future of artificial intelligence will be built, they will name Silicon Valley, China, or Europe. Few would mention Southeast Asia. And yet, global...

Southeast Asia is not one market; it’s five economies moving at different speeds

Most market entry decks still open with a single number. Southeast Asia, 680 million people, one giant addressable market. From where we sit, running teams across Singapore, Tokyo,...

An ASEAN Summit Consumed by Middle East Worries

The South China Sea ran a distant second.

El Niño Bakes Southeast Asia

The world’s rice bowl takes a hit.

Southeast Asia’s oak trees highly threatened as report warns of lack of protection

Many of Southeast Asia’s native oak species are under high stress from human pressures and lack protection, according to a recent report, reports contributor Sean Mowbray for Monga...

Southeast Asia's streaming success spurs filmmakers' global hopes

Southeast Asia is planning four times the data centre capacity it runs

Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is already...

The factories are coming. Southeast Asia’s real race is to build what surrounds them

For years, Southeast Asia’s manufacturing story has been told largely through factory announcements. A multinational opens another plant in Vietnam. A semiconductor company expands...

Southeast Asia in the 2026-2030 world order: Trade, chips, AI, and capital

Southeast Asia is not entering the second half of the decade as a spectator to global change. It is becoming one of the places where that change will be absorbed, negotiated, and i...

Tourists first, trade later: Why Southeast Asia’s next boom is coming from the Gulf

One of my jobs in what I came to think of as a corridor business did not look like one at the time. It was in the years before COVID-19, at China Business Network, a small but mean...

Market access, redrawn: Why Southeast Asia is becoming the world’s strategic advantage

A few years ago, advising a company on international expansion was a relatively clean exercise. We looked at market size, GDP growth, demographics, the competitive field, and the e...

Bigger Budgets, Smarter Trips: South East Asia’s Next Travel Growth Wave

Hilton's South East Asia Pulse Check of 3,000 travelers finds 59% plan to spend more per trip, with Gen Z and Millennials driving frequency and spending growth across six regional...

Radisson Hotel Group highlights strategic growth across Southeast Asia Pacific

Radisson Hotel Group details its Southeast Asia Pacific expansion, covering 89 hotels and 17,000+ rooms across Vietnam, Philippines, Australasia, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Southeast Asia in flux: UK told “era of the mega market is over”

Southeast Asia remains a growth region for international student mobility, but UK universities were warned they can no longer rely on prestige or a handful of major source markets...

The new map of growth: Where Southeast Asia fits in a fragmented world

The operating system of the global economy is changing. For three decades, companies assumed capital, technology, energy and goods could move across borders with manageable frictio...

Japan is moving into Southeast Asia faster than the West, and most brands haven’t noticed yet

From our Tokyo office, the shift is hard to miss. The Japanese companies we talk to have stopped treating Southeast Asia as a factory floor and started treating it as a customer ba...