At least over the past month, optimism for Malaysia's medium- and long-term growth prospects has remained unchanged, the country’s Economy Minister Seri Rafizi Ramli has said.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has revised its economic growth forecast for developing Asia slightly up thanks to stronger domestic demand and export growth.

Credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed Vietnam's long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating at 'BB' with a positive outlook.

Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) maintaining the Government of Vietnam's long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings at Ba3 and changing the outlook to “positive” from “negative” is unprecedented, an official has said.

WB has forecast that growth in developing East Asia and Pacific economies is expected to remain strong and reach 6.3 percent in 2018 thanks to prospects for a continued broad-based global recovery and robust domestic demand.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) upgraded its growth outlook for Asia from 5.7 percent to 5.9 percent in 2017 and from 5.7 percent to 5.8 percent for 2018 in a new report released on July 19.

The 24th General Meeting of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) has proposed ideas for the future of the Asia-Pacific partnership which will be submitted to the APEC senior officials and ministers after one day of working in Hanoi.