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HO CHI MINH CITY -- Con Dao used to be an island prison where French colonizers subjected the Vietnamese to a regimented life of isolation, controlled diets, austerity and the sound of silence, all under a perceived shroud of spirits of inmates past.

SINGAPORE, Jan. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Agoda's prestigious 16 th Gold Circle Awards celebrate Southeast Asia's exceptional hospitality as Thailand retains its top position while Vietnam breaks into the top five for the first time.

SCG Chemicals (SCGC), under Thailand’s giant Siam Cement Group (SCG), has signed a 15-year ethane supply contract to provide feedstock for its Long Son Petrochemicals (LSP) complex in Vietnam.

Thailand’s top industrial park (IP) developer WHA is set to build its WHA Industrial Zone 2 project in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An later this quarter.

Singaporean and Vietnamese youths are also the most optimistic and satisfied about their countries’ political systems, law enforcement and economic future than their peers in four other Southeast Asian countries,

For government critics in Southeast Asia, fleeing abroad does not necessarily mean safety. Thailand is growing particularly dangerous for foreigners seeking protection.

Whether through complicity or ignorance, Thailand is increasingly at the heart of foreign security operations targeting dissidents that have been deployed on its soil by authoritarian Southeast Asian regimes.

As Vietnam’s stock market struggles to gain momentum, foreign billionaires, particularly from Thailand and Japan, are seizing opportunities to acquire stakes in leading companies across strategic sectors.

In ‘Destination Anywhere’, Melanie Oliveiro finds out about the travel adventures of Charlyn Ding, a real estate agent and founder of Homes in the Lion city - a subsidiary company of PropNex Realty, and founder of wellness brand Om & Away.

Vietnam seeks to join the OECD to align its policies with international best practices and governance standards and boost investor appeal.

Southeast Asians have a love-hate relationship with durians, sometimes called the “king of fruits”. Its spiky exterior masks a pungent smell—meaning the fruit is often banned on public transport, and in hotels and airports.