Carlos Mendoza monitors large-scale infrastructure projects and long-term economic growth patterns in Southeast Asia. He provides strategic outlooks on energy, transport, and urbanization trends.
Based on GlobalData's forecast, Indonesia's mobile service revenue will reach $12.1 billion by 2030, driven by data consumption and 5G deployment, while voice revenue continues to decline. This trend reflects the digital acceleration of ASEAN's largest economy and provides new momentum for regional supply chain and digital economy integration.
Cambodia cultivates sustainable finance talents through the ESG Challenge, aiming to enhance its competitiveness in the green finance sector within the ASEAN region, which has a profound impact on ASEAN financial integration and sustainable development.
Based on the latest data and policy analysis, exploring how Philippine fintech builds a financial inclusion ecosystem around remittances and its implications for ASEAN regional financial integration.
SCG President reveals ASEAN industry transformation path, from short-term resilience and medium-to-long-term digital transformation to green growth, highlighting the long-term trend of regional collaboration and cross-border value chain integration.
At the third Global Expansion Summit, Xiamen ITG proposed a transformation path from global trader to value chain integrator. Its practices in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Singapore demonstrate how Chinese supply chain enterprises deeply embed themselves into the ASEAN industrial ecosystem, driving the restructuring and upgrading of regional supply chains.
EuroCham Cambodia Tax Forum 2026 focuses on economic formalization and investor-oriented tax reform, analyzing the impact of this policy on the investment environment in Cambodia and the ASEAN region.
The Chief Investment Officer of Malaysia's Khazanah Nasional pointed out that Malaysia must move beyond traditional manufacturing and break away from the "hotel economy" model. This transformation is not only crucial to the nation's destiny but also provides ASEAN economies with a roadmap for leaping from assembly bases to innovation hubs.
Cambodia's leading telecom operator Smart convened business leaders to promote the implementation of 5G, AI, and cybersecurity in enterprises. This event reflects the long-term trend of accelerated development of the digital economy and surging demand for digital transformation among enterprises in Cambodia and the ASEAN region.
Cambodia's mobile banking users surpass 10 million, with KHQR annual payment volume exceeding $105 billion, marking a leap forward in its digital finance ecosystem and propelling ASEAN regional payment connectivity into a new phase.
Vietnam's industrial output in the first five months of 2026 hit a four-year high, with IIP growing 9.1%, reflecting the deepening trend of manufacturing relocation and supply chain restructuring in the ASEAN region.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia hosted the “Green Season” tourism exhibition and business matchmaking event from June 5 to 6. At first glance, it appears to be a local convention and exhibition arrangement, but in fact it reflects that ASEAN’s tourism industry is moving from single-destination marketing to a new stage of cross-border visitor sourcing, business network connectivity, and coordinated development of the service sector.
Envision Energy and Impact Electrons Siam are advancing a cross-border wind power project in Laos. On the surface, it is a single energy cooperation effort, but in reality it reflects deeper trends in ASEAN power interconnection, the systematization of clean energy, and regional industrial upgrading.
S&P Global data showed that ASEAN manufacturing PMI rose to 51.5 in May, recording its first rebound in three months. Improvements in new orders and output indicate that the regional manufacturing chain remains resilient, but declining exports, delivery delays, and inflationary pressures also remind the market that ASEAN manufacturing’s recovery is not proceeding along a single path; rather, it is seeking a balance amid external demand fluctuations, supply chain restructuring, and cost pressures.
Although Laos’ fintech ecosystem is still in its early stage in 2026, mobile payments, QR code interoperability, and cross-border retail payments are bringing this landlocked economy more closely into the ASEAN digital economy network.