Southeast Asian economy

An internal ByteDance 2019 presentation reviewed by Reuters showed that last year TikTok had 43.5 million monthly active users in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia, with the majority female, the biggest online consumers in the region.

SINGAPORE (Nov 27): Singapore’s economy is starting to see some “green shoots” that could bring a glimmer of hope amid negative non-oil domestic export (NODX) figures and slow growth, says Selena Ling, chief economist at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp

(Aug 5): Asian shares slid to 6-1/2-month lows on Monday and the yuan plunged as a rapid escalation in the Sino-U.S. trade war drove nervous investors to safe-havens such as the yen, bonds and gold.