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Annually KW Group support over 100+ businesses & government entities with inbound and outbound APAC FDI, trade, market access & tradetech...

The new and impactful Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will create new trade opportunities among Asian countries and...

Standard Chartered Bank says Malaysia has been named as the top expansion market for Middle East companies focusing on Asean The bank...

Investment Monitor explores the leading locations, sectors and investors when it comes to attracting FDI in financial services. Financial...

The Golden Triangle SEZ in Laos is mired in scandal and criminality, but the silence from SEZ authorities on the matter is deafening. In...

Region sells itself short as a ‘taker, rather than giver’ but should instead take confidence in being the world’s fifth largest – and...

Asia now accounts for nearly 60% of the world’s online retail sales. Asian-Pacific e-commerce is expected to nearly double by 2025,...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia approved a record 306.5 billion ringgit ($73.33 billion) in investments last year, an 83% jump from...

ASEAN members are working on facilitating increased trade, removing trade barriers and reducing transaction costs to deal with the...

The essential guide to RCEP for anyone establishing operations in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia,...

As China’s cost base has risen and it looks to move up the value chain, an opportunity will arise for some Southeast Asian economies to...

On January 18, 2022, Indonesia’s Parliament passed the Capital City Bill into law meaning the construction of the country’s new capital...

This report reviews the progress of trade facilitation reforms across 144 countries, based on the fourth UN Global Survey on Digital and...

As pandemic eases, region will post the largest increase in GDP over the next two years In Asian economies, a powerful dynamic is...

New UNCTAD estimates show that infrastructure finance is up due to recovery stimulus packages, but greenfield investment activity remains...

For two decades, China’s manufacturing and export sector has seemed to only be going one direction: up. The latest notch: A record trade...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) came into force in early 2022. Investment Monitor looks at the countries and...

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement took effect for most of the 15 member countries on January 1 It is the...

Encouraging news from UNESCAP as we head in to 2022 - Foreign Direct Investment Trends and Outlook in Asia and the Pacific 2021/2022...

When the Asia-Pacific Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) enters into force on 1 January 2022 it will create the world’s...