Last updated January 30th, 2019. The ASEAN highway connecting India, Myanmar, and Thailand has opened. It's a move that will surely strengthen trade and political cooperation among the three countries, Asian Highway No. 1 (AH1) is the most crucial part of this new...
Last updated December 21st, 2018. Recent years saw rapid development in the Philippines which is now among the world's fastest growing markets. Solid economic trends will continue in the long term. Yet a high Philippine unemployment rate still plagues this...
Last updated November 27th, 2022. Vietnam's stock market has been on investor's radars for awhile. The Southeast Asian nation's newfound popularity is partially because of Vietnam's similarities to China in the 1980s and 1990s during its earlier stages of...
Last updated June 2nd, 2023. Just about every investor is aware of the innovation coming out of Silicon Valley, which enjoys the top "brand name" out of any global tech hub. Startups in Asia arguably have greater untapped potential than anywhere else in the...
Last updated December 20th, 2019. Singapore's GDP growth is far weaker than economists hoped for, with some analysts blaming the nation's sluggish manufacturing sector along with an intensifying US-China trade war. Businesses are still trying to counteract this...
Last updated November 26th, 2019. Heineken, one of the world's biggest brewing companies, is back in the Burmese market over two decades after its first attempt. Myanmar's former military junta condemned and sanctioned Heineken back in the late 1990s....
Last updated August 20th, 2022. Vietnam certainly made amazing progress over the last decade. Their annual growth averaged above 6% with a remarkable CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 12%. That ranks Vietnam as Asia's second fastest growing economy, only...
Update for November, 2019: This article was originally written back in 2015, forecasting a decline in the Malaysian ringgit. Our predictions were accurate and the ringgit saw significant depreciation over the past few years. However, we now rate the currency a "buy"...
Update for October, 2019: This article was originally written in 2015. Our predictions were accurate and China stocks saw a significant decline over the past few years. However, we're still bearish on Chinese stocks and think they can fall even further. Information...
Last updated March 15th, 2023. With a population exceeding four billion and growing fast, events in Asia will increasingly shape the whole world. Not every country will benefit equally from Asia's rise though. The region's top finance hubs will facilitate...