Welcome to Future Southeast Asia! livinginasia.co has now moved to a new brand and domain at futuresoutheastasia.com. Ever since launching Version 1 of Living In Asia in March 2018 the site has continued to evolve. What initially began as a site where I posted once a month or so has grown into a leading resource for […]
Latest posts at Future Southeast Asia
SWF will finance the construction of LRT and MRT in 5 cities in Indonesia
[Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi prepared plans to build MRT and LRT in five cities, namely Bali, Bandung, Surabaya, Medan and Makassar, through endowment funds. (Muchlis Jr – Presidential Secretariat Bureau).] Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi is preparing plans to build mass rapid transit (MRT) and light rail transit (LRT) in five cities […]
Bay of Lights: New urban development in Ream Bay, Sihanoukville
Bay of Lights is a proposed new urban development in Ream Bay, Sihanoukville Province, Cambodia. The project covers 934 hectares of reclaimed land in Ream Bay, with an estimated US$16 billion in total investment. Bay of Lights was launched as Ream City by Canopy Sands Development, a member of Prince Holding Group, and is designed […]
Future Ninh Thuan Province – Vietnam
Phan Rang–Thap Cham is the capital city of Ninh Thuan Province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. Ninh Thuan is bordered by Khanh Hoa to the north, Binh Thuan to the south, and Lam Dong in the Central Highlands to the west. Ninh Thuan Province has the lowest GDP per capita in the […]
Muse-Mandalay-Kyaukphyu Railway
The Muse-Mandalay-Kyaukphyu railway project is two proposed railways that make up the Myanmar section of the China-Myanmar railway. The two sections in Myanmar are Muse to Mandalay, and Mandalay and Kyaukphyu. News and information about any of these projects will be put on this single page. The railway could also be called the Kunming to Kyaukphyu railway […]
New airports planned and under construction in Southeast Asia – 2021 edition
Air travel in Southeast Asia boomed in the 2010s, with new routes opening up previously unconnected provincial cities, and low-cost airlines making long-distance travel more comfortable and affordable. To give you an idea of these boom times, I posted about Vietnam’s aviation market in 2019. To cater to this new-found demand, old airports have been […]
Bangkok Gold Line: The people mover connecting the BTS to Icon Siam
After many years of waiting, Bangkok’s brand new Gold Line finally opened on December 16 2020, the newest addition to the city’s expanding family of electric train lines. By most estimations, Bangkok will boast around 450km of them by 2025 (subject to the shifting whims of Thai politics). Not bad for a city that, until […]
Future Hoi An / Quang Nam Province
Quang Nam is a coastal province of Central Vietnam, in between Da Nang to the north and Quang Ngai Province to the south. In the interior, it borders Kon Tum Province and Laos. While Quang Nam is not a household name for the average tourist, everyone knows its most famous city of Hoi An. In […]
Building better new cities in Southeast Asia
New urban areas and city development projects are being built across Southeast Asia to accommodate a rapidly urbanising population. As the editor-in-chief of this urban development website, I’ve been keeping track of these new projects over the years. As I travel around Southeast Asia I’ve visited many of these new urban areas, and I’m seeing […]
Da Nang construction update – 2020 edition
Da Nang has been booming over the last decade, becoming an increasingly popular tourist destination and central business hub in Vietnam. This growth has come to a grinding halt with the onset of the COVID-19 virus. In 2020 Da Nang recorded negative economic growth for the first time in over 20 years. It’s been especially […]
