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Opinion & Features

Australia’s economy is suddenly in too good a place

The world’s second-largest economy will make use of policies including those related to industry, prices, employment, consumption, investment and environment and trade.
International

China to ‘significantly’ boost consumption share of economy

Asean cannot afford to let the region become the economic battleground of major powers.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Securing the Asean economy in an over-securitised world

Unemployed steelworkers in America’s Rust Belt did not get the economic lift promised during US President Donald Trump’s first term.
Opinion & Features

Deliveroo politics

Data due Monday (Oct 20) is expected to show gross domestic product grew 4.8 per cent year-on-year in July-September, the slowest pace since the third quarter of 2024, and down from the 5.2 per cent rate clocked in the second quarter, according to a Reuters poll.
International

China's Q3 GDP growth set to slow to one-year low as property slump, trade tensions sap demand

As China's trade tensions escalate with the US, a weakness in investment, industrial output, and retail sales is undermining the momentum from record sales abroad.
International

China’s export boom can’t stop economy’s worst quarter in 2025

Indonesia's Minister of Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto says the package includes US$1.81 billion for 35 million households.
International

Indonesia announces cash handout, internship programme to stimulate economy

The prosperity of Asean+3 economies hinges on whether policymakers, central banks and financial supervisors can navigate an increasingly complex landscape of novel risks, say the writers.
Opinion & Features

Central banks must guide Asean+3 through age of novel risks

Hong Kong’s aim is for its index to represent the economy, while the STI is more a benchmark for the market than the economy.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Should stock market indices represent the market or the economy?

Vietnam is targeting gross domestic product growth of 8.3 per cent to 8.5 per cent this year.
ASEAN Business

Vietnam achieves over 8% growth in two quarters amid trade challenges

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