Malaysia economy

The Malaysian central bank's move follows Singapore's awarding of digital banking licenses at the end of 2020.

The country keeps spending in preparation for a post-pandemic economy, but there are big risks ahead.

The next few weeks will reveal if the country is prepared for a COVID-19 endemic phase, or if it will experience another wave of hospitalizations.

The latest iteration of the country's five-year plan includes a host of nice-sounding economic goals. The challenge is implementing them.

The new PM's plan focuses on raising income and reining in pollution. Can it be achieved or is it a mere smokescreen?

While trade is important as countries seek to bounce back from COVID-19, you need to poke a little deeper to get a full picture of the current account.

On the 50th anniversary of Malaysia’s New Economic Policy, the middle class it famously built may be collapsing. Will its goal of national unity collapse with it?

Rising U.S. bond yields have prompted fears of capital flight from Southeast Asian economies. How serious is the threat?

Sometimes the state has an interest in controlling firms in critical sectors like transportation, even if they are hemorrhaging money.

COVID-19 has presented state oil firms in Malaysia and Indonesia with widely divergent challenges.

A new World Bank report predicts sharp economic contractions that could produce a wave of "new COVID poor."

Businesses are reopening for the first time since the lockdown began on March 18, but critics worry the move has come too soon.