No legal framework for offshore development now exists in the 27,000 sq km Gulf of Thailand Overlapping Claims Area, closing the door on commercial exploration for the foreseeable future.
Malaysia's approved digital investments in 2024 reached RM163.6 billion. Data centres and cloud accounted for 76.8% of that total, up from 55.5% in 2023. The shift is structural, not cyclical.
Two projects, USD6.2 billion in combined capital, turned Vietnam's FDI trajectory around in a single month. Concentration creates headlines. It also creates risk.
The CNG program uses methane and ethane, which Indonesia produces domestically. LPG requires propane and butane, which Indonesia does not produce in sufficient volumes.
President Prabowo separately directed the Energy Minister to identify alternative naphtha sources outside the Hormuz corridor, running supply diversification in parallel with tariff relief.