Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 08, 2017 • 4 min read

Top five: English Premier League partnerships in Southeast Asia

By Euan Black and Logan Connor • Mar 08, 2017
The English Premier League has well and truly infiltrated Southeast Asia, with 38% of its viewers hailing from the Asia and Oceania region, four of the 20 clubs displaying Southeast Asian companies as their main shirt sponsors and a host of lucrative, and sometimes curious, commercial deals. Here, we look over some of the most notable business ties that the league has in Southeast Asia, ranging from an obscure snack food to a $36.7m training kit sponsorship.

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 02, 2017 • 3 min read

Southeast Asia’s $3.5 trillion infrastructure crisis

By Euan Black • Mar 02, 2017
Weak infrastructure threatens to bring the region’s breakneck development to a grinding halt, says the Asian Development Bank

Southeast Asia • Mar 01, 2017 • 5 min read

Who are Cambodia’s new deputy opposition leaders?

A closer look at Mu Sochua, Eng Chhay Eang and Pol Ham, the three opposition politicians who have been named joint vice-presidents of the Cambodia National Rescue Party
By Logan Connor • Mar 01, 2017

Southeast Asia • Feb 28, 2017 • 2 min read

‘Bikini airline’ Vietjet’s stocks soar as company goes public

Vietnam’s only privately owned airline, Vietjet, issued 300m shares on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange Tuesday morning. By 9:19am, the stock price had jumped from $3.95 to $4.74, valuing the low-cost airline at $1.42 billion A Vietjet crew member closes the door of a A320 airplane before departure for Bangkok at Noi Bai international airport in Hanoi. Photo: Nguyen Huy Kham/Reuters
By Euan Black • Feb 28, 2017

Southeast Asia • Feb 23, 2017 • 2 min read
Sugar

The real cost of Thailand scrapping its sugar subsidy program

Thailand is ending its sugar subsidy programme after complaints that it dragged down global sugar prices. But both rural farmers and the ruling junta could suffer from the decision
By Logan Connor • Feb 23, 2017

Southeast Asia • Feb 22, 2017 • 3 min read

Laos president visits Cambodia amid border dispute

As tensions along the Cambodia-Laos border flare, Laos President Bounnhang Vorachith is due to arrive in for a two-day state visit
By Logan Connor • Feb 22, 2017