The Latest Breaking News from Asean

Thailand's top three banks have combined non-performing loans (NPLs) of more than US$9.6 billion, the highest in Southeast Asia, but Thai banks overall still have a high level of reserves for bad debts, says the Federation of Thai Capital Market Organizations (Fetco).

Mark Sultan Gersava was a peace development worker from Mindanao, the Philippines, who decided to act on what he saw as a critical challenge: transforming his ordinary products to become environmentally friendly to help mitigate the effect of climate change while empowering his local community with sustainable and long-term livelihoods.

Mahidol University has introduced Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) modified T-cell therapy to treat B-cell leukaemia, making Thailand the first in the Asean to adopt this cutting-edge technique.

In celebration of Social Work Month and World Social Work Day 2023, the Asean Training Centre for Social Work and Social Welfare is holding an international symposium on the theme "Human Security Is Global Security", at Novotel Bangkok Platinum Pratunam, Phetchaburi Road on Friday from 8.30am to 4.30pm.

The National Science Museum of Thailand (NSM) has kicked off what it is calling a science caravan, an activity aimed at fostering interest in science and technology among school students in Asean countries, starting with Laos.

BBL Asset Management (BBLAM) is overweighting its investment in Chinese and Asean stocks this year as the prospects for economic recovery are higher in Asia than in the West.

Global networking giant Cisco Systems says security for hybrid work is among its top business priorities in Asean and Thailand as businesses are paying more attention to the issue.

China's reopening should provide a timely boost to the Asean+3 region as the area's economic growth was downgraded because of continuing weakness in China, Japan and South Korea, according to economists.

Industry use cases, simulation and machine learning are among the trends associated with the rise of cloud computing usage in 2023, according to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud service arm of tech giant Amazon.