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Aidan Jones
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
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The security chief turned paramount leader is chasing the markets and capital required to reach high-income status by 2045.
The former prime minister’s once unassailable Pheu Thai party is now just a minor player in Anutin Charnvirakul’s government.
Vietnam’s drive to energise its economy may take time to materialise in the face of rising fuel costs and trade barriers, analysts say.
Thai businesses are asking online experts to help reel in young big spenders who prize authenticity over heavily advertised content.
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Police believe that some Chinese cyber scammers are using these false registrations to launder money through firms they can fully control.
Thailand is a key pipeline in a lucrative global trade that animal activists warn risks spreading zoonotic diseases and erasing biodiversity.
While the plan to bypass the Malacca Strait is popular with Anutin’s government, economists and environmentalists say it is not realistic.
The sanction freezes all US assets linked to Senator Kok An and his named associates, and bars any American national from dealing with them.
The Asian pangolin has been hunted for its meat and scales to the point of extinction, causing poachers to turn to its African cousins.
The Cambodian public is maintaining a boycott of Thai businesses even as the country’s economy is reeling from the global fuel crisis.
The region faces a perennial haze scourge, with enforcement of bans against slash-and-burn farm practices remaining patchy.
Burned by soaring energy prices, Southeast Asian nations are racing to future-proof themselves against the volatility of war.
A new UNDP report has forecast job losses, crippling inflation and food insecurity, with the poorest nations brutally exposed to the oil shock.
Soaring costs for fuel and ice fail to dampen the mood as a wave of ‘revenge travel’ provides a much-needed economic boost.
Rising fertiliser costs and fuel rationing have affected farmers’ productivity, but Myanmar has little capital to replenish these stocks.
Police are investigating alleged oil hoarding in southern Thailand and reselling to nearby countries, citing ‘abnormal’ vessel movements.
Half of the fleet is already docked as the fishing association warns the whole sector may ‘collapse like dominoes’.
His transition from top general to president is a ‘veneer’ that poses a challenge for Asean, which has long shunned him, critics say.
After being denied fuel, a Thai man live-streamed the moment he showed station staff an occupied coffin to prove his urgent need.
Scam bosses and their multibillion-dollar crime networks are fleeing to Myanmar, Laos and Thailand ahead of an April deadline.
While the lower prices may be a boon for visitors, businesses say ‘the stillness is unsettling’ as they brace themselves for hardship.
From Laos to Thailand, long queues are forming at petrol stations while residents are reeling from surging fuel prices.
Birth rates are falling. Populations are ageing. In Southeast Asia, the business of dying has never been bigger.
Facing economic challenges and border tensions with Cambodia, the prime minister has pledged swift responses to public needs.
Stacked with military allies and ex-generals, the new assembly aims to legitimise a regime the United Nations and EU have branded a sham.
With Chinese investors seizing the supply chain, Thai coconuts now fetch less than a piece of chewing gum, wiping out profits for growers.
These firms used Thai nominees to control the coconut sector and resell the fruit by as much as 25 times the price paid to farmers.
As drivers panic buy diesel and the public is urged to limit air con use, Thai civil servants are ordered home to preserve dwindling energy.
Southeast Asia was already going electric. Then war broke out in the Middle East and it started going faster.
