Evaluate how FTAs, HS codes, and duty-drawback mechanisms can optimize import costs, compliance, and liquidity for foreign ...

U.S. tariff reforms in 2025 create a three-tier system reshaping where capital, supply chains, and compliance converge across Asia.

Foreign investors in Malaysia often reach a stage where their existing structure no longer supports commercial or regional goals. Shifts in ASEAN supply chains, rising compliance costs, or changes in ...

The Philippines has large and abundant supplies of biomass resources, including agricultural crop residues, forest residues, animal waste, agro-industrial waste, municipal solid waste and aquatic ...

The United States broadened its tariff policy in 2025, shifting from a China-specific approach to a wider protectionist framework that targets entire value chains in strategic sectors such as electric ...

Timor-Leste stands at a pivotal moment in its national development, where digital transformation has the potential to leapfrog traditional growth barriers. While historically dependent on oil revenues ...

The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) between Indonesia and its international partners calls for renewable energy to comprise 34 percent of Indonesia’s power generation by 2030. Indonesia will ...

The Indonesian government is mulling the prospect of turning the Natuna Regency into a special economic zone. The natural features and resources of the Natuna Regency give it considerable potential ...

The 2022 ASEAN summit took place at the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, this past weekend, with China as an official guest. At the event, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced Beijing’s approval of ...

Cambodia has emerged as a leading low-cost manufacturing hub in Southeast Asia, with the garment sector serving as the cornerstone of its export-oriented industrialization. For more than two decades, ...

Indonesia’s GR 35/2021 stipulates significant changes to fixed-term employment contracts, outsourcing, hours of work, and the termination of employment procedure. The regulation also obligates ...

Singapore’s permanent residency (PR) status grants long-term stay and work benefits, but maintaining it requires timely renewal of your re-entry permit (REP). Without a valid REP, leaving Singapore ...