Foreign investment

Capital-hungry Indonesia to reduce hurdles for foreign investors

The new body will help them better understand regulations, sector incentives and project pipelines

Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong says that members of the grouping working together will enable faster, coordinated responses to supply-chain risks.

Future of Investment and Trade Partnership agrees on supply-chain resilience efforts at first meeting

The group of small and medium-sized pro-trade countries is not ‘against any particular country’, says DPM Gan Kim Yong

Johor’s ascent is closely tied to its transformation into a regional data-centre and advanced manufacturing hub.

Johor leads Malaysia’s RM285 billion investment surge in 9M 2025

The country’s overall approvals are up 13% year on year

Although New World secured a record US$11 billion in loan refinancing earlier this year, the company needs funding to help reduce its debt load and maintain operations.

New World’s talks with foreign investors stall over concessions

There is disagreement over how much control the clan is prepared to hand over in return for a capital injection

A Toyota Camry car is displayed at the India Innovation Summit – Innoverge 2025 in Bengaluru, India, Oct 10, 2025. Toyota is aiming to lift its share of the country’s passenger car market before the end of the decade to 10 per cent from 8 per cent currently, a sources said.

Toyota steps up India expansion with new SUVs, rural push as profit surges

[TOKYO] Toyota plans to launch 15 new and refreshed models in India by the end of the decade while deepening its rural network, sources said, as record profits in the country make the market increasin...

Toyota executive Hiroyuki Ueda said the company did not explicitly promise an investment of US$10 billion in the US, contrary to what President Donald Trump had claimed.

Toyota says it did not explicitly promise Trump new US$10 billion investment in US

[TOKYO] Japan’s Toyota Motor did not explicitly promise a new US$10 billion investment in the United States, a senior executive from the Japanese automaker said on Wednesday, a day after President Don...

A worker gestures at the gold processing plant of PT Aneka Tambang Tbk (ANTAM)’s Pongkor underground gold mine in Bogor, West Java, Oct 16, 2025. The biggest beneficiaries of FDI into Indonesia in the July-September period were the base metal, mining, transportation, warehouse and telecommunication industries.

Indonesia’s Q3 foreign direct investment down 8.9% on year, official data shows

[JAKARTA] Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Indonesia hit 212 trillion rupiah (S$16.5 billion) in the third quarter, 8.9 per cent lower in rupiah terms than a year earlier, investment ministry data...

The new Office for Investment: Financial Services will seek to attract investment to cities around Britain, finance minister Rachel Reeves said.

UK opens new concierge service in bid to woo more finance investment

[WASHINGTON] Britain’s government said on Friday (Oct 17) that it has launched what it hopes will be one-stop, concierge service to make it easier for financial services firms to invest in the country...

The mutual fund sector's total asset under management stood at 838 trillion rupiah as at June 2025.

Indonesia plans looser foreign investment rules for mutual funds

[JAKARTA] Indonesian regulators are planning to raise foreign investment limits for the country’s US$50 billion mutual fund sector, potentially allowing local funds to allocate more than half their ca...

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said the United States was committed to encouraging investment by companies from South Korea as one of the leading foreign investors in the US.

US to allow South Koreans to work at sites under temporary visas but clear solution elusive

[SEOUL] The US has agreed to allow South Koreans to work to set up facilities at US investment sites under existing temporary visas and open new channels to help its ally send workers to do business t...