China and Malaysia are in early talks for a project to process rare earths, with sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd likely to partner with a Chinese state-owned firm to build a refinery in the Southeast Asian nation, people familiar with the matter said.
The Indonesian government is planning to launch an additional economic stimulus package in the fourth quarter of this year, aiming to support 30 million households.
Malaysia, as ASEAN Chair this year, will continue to advance the Blue Economy as a defining pillar of regional cooperation.
Thailand is grappling with intensified economic challenges stemming from slower global growth, diminished fiscal capacity and ongoing political uncertainty, Fitch Ratings warned at its annual conference on Thailand held in Bangkok on Wednesday.
Nazir Razak says that Asean’s openness to trade and investment, long seen as a strength, also makes it vulnerable.
Singapore’s manufacturing output picked up in September even as the Trump administration added pharmaceuticals, a major export from the Republic to the US, to its list of goods under tariffs.
Vietnamese investors ranked among the top five foreign capital sources in Cambodia during the first nine months of 2025.
The bloc is set to face a 10 percent drop in exports to the US due to tariffs imposed by Trump.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
