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 July 21st, 2023. 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 December, 2023: 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 ever since then. However, we now rate the currency a "buy" and think...
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 February 3rd, 2024. Asia's population exceeds four billion and will increasingly shape our entire planet. When it comes to Singapore verses Hong Kong, which of these cities is truly at the center of the world's largest continent? Not every country will...
Update for September, 2018: Thailand ranks at the same spot (30th place) in this year's competitiveness index as in 2015 when this article was originally published. As such, Thailand's problems remain and this article is still very relevant. International...
Last updated September 27th, 2019. Home prices in Southeast Asia's financial center have plummeted since the beginning of 2015. Analysts are now worried the Singapore property bubble might burst soon. Singapore's residential real estate market has...
Last updated November 24th, 2021. Mongolia is a large nation positioned directly between China and Russia. But it's also the most sparsely populated in the world with barely over 3 million inhabitants. Nonetheless, the country's vast mineral wealth along with...