Gender pay gap drives Bhutanese women to Australia: World Bank
According to the Bhutan Labour Market Information System, women constituted only 42 percent of the workforce as of August 2025 and face a substantial earnings gap. Their median…
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‘Chaebol’ marriages shift: South Korea’s young scions marry within business circles, not politics
Recent data shows nearly half of the marriages of younger generations of South Korea’s conglomerate-controlling families are now with heirs of other chaebol families, a…
Japan PM Takaichi vows to have country exit deflation, closely monitor economic indicators
PM Takaichi defined an exit from deflation as a situation in which price levels are no longer falling and they seem unlikely to resume falling.
Investors hold back as plans for Indonesia’s future capital scaled down
President Prabowo Subianto redefined the under-construction city of Nusantara as a “political capital," marking a shift from former president Joko Widodo’s vision of a…
Phasing out a third of coal power plants in Asia can reduce around 1 billion tonnes of CO2 each year
This is equivalent to roughly a third of the European Union’s emissions in 2024.
Nepali sky remains unsafe as air travel reforms stall, report warns
The country is listed among the “most dangerous countries for air travel” in international safety assessments, according to a high-level government committee report that cites…
Underwhelming Q3 growth souring Philippines 2025 outlook
Economists downgrade full-year GDP expansion forecast to below 5 percent.
Malaysia needs complete overhaul of foreign worker recruitment policies: civil society groups
Malaysia has yet to solve the root cause of human trafficking, ranging from the forging of documents, quotas, and the labelling of victims as offenders.
How UN climate talks shaped carbon market, and what COP30 means for carbon trading in Southeast Asia
The carbon market allows parties to buy carbon credits from projects elsewhere in order to meet their emissions targets set under the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global…
Indonesia’s robust growth number faces scepticism amid declining retail sales, rising jobless claims
Employers worry inflated figures will trigger unrealistic wage demands. Tax collection fell 4.4%. Efficiency measures, like infrastructure spending cuts, contribute to weakness.