Thailand’s Department of Tourism (DoT) is designing plans to promote itself as a friendly destination for Muslim tourists, local media reported.

Indonesia accounts for around 40%, or 77 billion USD, of the total digital economic transaction value in Southeast Asia, the Financial Services Authority (OJK) has cited the e-Conomy South East Asia Report of 2022 as saying.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on March 16 that the exposure that Singaporean banks - DBS, OCBC and UOB - have to troubled banking giant Credit Suisse are "insignificant.”

The 42nd ASEAN Summit, slated to take place in mid-May in Indonesia’s Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara province this year, is expected to help the country attract 1.1 million international visitors to the tourism site, home to the Komodo Dragon National Park.

The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) believes that the number of foreign workers in Malaysia will easily exceed 1 million in 2023.

Indonesia Investment Authority (INA) and US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) have taken a significant step towards promoting economic development in Indonesia by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on March 16 said that Singapore and Indonesia are ready to cooperate in new areas, as the two countries signed agreements on energy, sustainability, health, and human capital development.

ASEAN has sufficient resources to become a centre of world economic growth with a GDP reaching USD 3.36 trillion in 2021 and a population of 650 million people, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said on March 15.

The Thailand’s National Environment Board (NEB) on March 15 backed stronger measures to deal with air pollution from fine particle matter smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5), ordering all the 17 provinces in the north to cease burning activities until the end of April.

Indonesia's Ministry of Industry is striving to accelerate the growth of the battery-based electric motorised vehicle (KBLBB) ecosystem to reduce fuel consumption, according to the ministry's Secretary General Dody Widodo.

Laos will host the fourth Mekong River Commission (MRC) Summit and the MRC International Conference in its capital Vientiane from April 2-5.

Indonesian Minister of Trade Zulkifli Hasan and Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal met in New Delhi on March 14 to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral collaboration in various sectors, including information technology, health, textiles, furniture, education, and human resources.

The sight of Irrawaddy dolphins swimming in the Mekong River in Cambodia may soon be no more than a memory, as numbers of the endangered mammals dwindle despite efforts to preserve them.

ASEAN and Norway reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen cooperation under the ASEAN-Norway Sectoral Dialogue Partnership at the 8th Meeting of the ASEAN-Norway Joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee held at the ASEAN Secretariat on March 14.