Business Bridge Asia

19/03/2026

Eid al-Fitr Mubarak and Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri from the Bridge Asia team!

03/03/2026

Several Asian countries lead the world in total debt as a percent of GDP (including household, corporate, and government debt). Hong Kong leads the world with debt at 380% of GDP, with Japan second at 372% and Singapore third at 347%. China is number 6, South Korea is number 8, Malaysia is number 10, Thailand is number 11, India is number 20, Vietnam is number 21, and Laos is number 41 in the world.

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-most-indebted-countries-today-q4-2025/?mc_cid=ba9fd00eea&mc_eid=9a9e20c762

Across both developed and developing economies, governments are not alone in feeling the pinch of high debt burdens.

18/02/2026

Gong Xi Fa Cai, Chúc Mừng Năm Mới, and happy Lunar New Year to our friends and colleagues!

31/12/2025

Happy New Year from the Bridge Asia team!

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from the Bridge Asia team!

17/12/2025

Happy Victory Day to our colleagues and friends in Bangladesh!

04/12/2025

The global semiconductor industry is heavily concentrated in the US, Taiwan, South Korea, China, Japan, the Netherlands, and the UK. Taiwan's TSMC remains the world’s largest contract chipmaker, with Taiwan's MediaTek also a major producer.

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-global-semiconductor-industry-in-one-giant-chart/

Explore the world's semiconductor industry by market cap, highlighting Nvidia’s massive 37% share of the global total.

26/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from the Bridge Asia team!

23/11/2025

Southeast Asian countries rank low on perceptions of interpersonal trust, with the Philippines and Indonesia rating one another as especially untrustworthy. On the other hand, the advanced economies of East Asia and Oceania rank well on trust perceptions.

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-people-trust-each-other-most-by-country/

Which nations trust each other the most? Explore 2022 survey data ranking the world’s most and least trusting countries.

02/11/2025

Government debt-to-GDP ratios in the Asia-Pacific range across the spectrum, no different from other parts of the world. Japan remains the world’s most indebted nation at 230% of GDP, with Singapore third at 176%. The U.S. is 11th at 125%, China 24th at 96%, and Laos, an oft-cited cautionary tale on debt, ranks a modest 31st at 91%. On the other extreme, Asia-Pacific countries with some of the world's lowest levels of government debt include Brunei, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, and many Pacific Island Countries.

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-government-debt-to-gdp-by-country-in-2025/

Explore the map of global government debt to GDP in 2025 which shows the most and least indebted countries in the world.

23/10/2025

The Indian government recently introduced several fixes to the country's dysfunctional bankruptcy laws. Slow bankruptcy procedures and unqualified judges are among the problems that have hindered India's economic growth.

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https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/10/16/indias-bankruptcy-laws-are-hobbling-the-country

Can a raft of changes help?

02/10/2025

Many Asian countries including Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and South Korea gained a trade advantage relative to their competitors from U.S. tariffs, according to Global Trade Alert. India and China lost the most from the tariffs.

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/hf08-ranked-countries-losing-the-most-and-least-from-trumps-tariffs/

Trump’s tariffs affect all major U.S. trading partners, but what matters is how each country’s tariffs compare to its competitors.