It softens before we can finish the drink, so we have to gulp it down without a straw, she said, adding that reusable metal alternatives left an unpleasant taste in her mouth. Her frustration reflects a wider debate over Asias shift away from plastic straws, with a recently released South Korean study finding that conventional plastic straws performed better than paper and other...

Nafeesa Azman has applied for hundreds of jobs over the past two months, yet the 24-year-old Malaysian marketing graduate is yet to find a permanent role that pays what she needs or uses the skills she spent years, and a good deal of money, developing

Recent school attacks across Malaysia have shone a light on a troubling trend of teenagers joining an online subculture that glamorises real-life killers, according to a prominent security analyst

As the threat of a reclassification by MSCI that could relegate Indonesia to an investment hinterland looms, the countrys financial regulators and stock exchange officials have vowed to address systemic concerns, including removing stocks with concentrated ownership. The global index provider announced on Friday it was launching a formal consultation to decide whether to downgrade Southeast Asias largest economy from emerging market to stand-alone status, similar to countries such as...

A country need not run out of money to find itself in a debt crisis

Almost every year, Kevin Stewart flies to China to find stock for his Indonesian businesses

A weakening rupiah, mounting budgetary pressures and a series of contentious policy decisions have made that task harder. Doubts about the management of Southeast Asias largest economy have now coalesced around its central bank, whose independence has come under intense scrutiny recently as President Prabowo Subianto seeks to steer economic policy

A weakening rupiah, mounting budgetary pressures and a series of contentious policy decisions have made that task harder. Doubts about the management of Southeast Asias largest economy have now coalesced around its central bank, whose independence has come under intense scrutiny recently as President Prabowo Subianto seeks to steer economic policy

The US governments plan to live-stream the execution of a former Army member convicted in a deadly 2009 mass shooting is raising questions about how effectively Southeast Asian governments can restrict graphic online content

An investment surge into artificial intelligence may be helping prop up a global economy battered by energy supply shocks, but the technologys potential to cull jobs requires swift mitigation if Asias youth are to secure a place in the future workforce, delegates were warned at the IMFWorld Bank annual meetings in Bangkok on Monday

AirAsia co-founder Tony Fernandes met with officials from Malaysias finance ministry two weeks ago to discuss potential government support for Southeast Asias largest low-cost airline, according to three people with knowledge of the matter

The Philippines is developing a national road map to combat child labour as part of a broader push across Southeast Asia, where poverty and insecure livelihoods continue to drive children into work despite government efforts to stamp out the practice