When the domestic new energy vehicles "volume" intense, Chinese auto giants have long cast their eyes overseas. Recently, BYD in Vietnam, a big move, once again detonated the industry's attention to this hot spot.

It is reported that recently, according to foreign media reports, in the fierce environment of e-commerce competition, Thailand's local e-commerce platform NocNoc announced that it will stop operating, marking Thailand's last large-scale integrated e-commerce platform controlled mainly by local capital formally withdrew from the market.

With RCEP in full effect and the rise of the Southeast Asian economy, Thailand is becoming an important hub for global companies to locate in Asia. The latest data from the Board of Investment Promotion of Thailand (BOI) shows that the total foreign direct investment (FDI) applications exceeded 450 billion baht in January-September 2025, an increase of 28% year-on-year, of which Chinese investment ranked in the top three for the third consecutive year

On January 28, 2026, the Bank of Thailand strictly limited daily online gold trading to 50 million baht, while completely banning short trading in the gold market. The strength of this policy far exceeded market expectations, plummeting from the initially proposed limit of 500 million to 1 billion baht to 50 million baht in just one week.

Recently, the Indonesian government has been working on new regulations for e-commerce platforms that aim to protect local MSMEs from high overheads and commissions. This initiative reveals an important trend: the Indonesian market is shifting from "wild growth" to "regulated development".

For foreign companies planning to enter Indonesia, this policy windsock means: achieving compliance through the registration of a local entity is not only a necessary threshold for entry into mainstream e-commerce platforms (e.g., TikTok Shop, Shopee), but also a long-term strategic choice for obtaining the policy dividend and winning the trust of the market. In this article, we will systematically dismantle the whole process of company registration in Indonesia in 2026.