A potentially game-changing event has taken place in Southeast Asia's telecoms, showing that the regional economy is not doomed to be torn apart by the U.S.-China trade war and geopolitical rivalry.
Norway's Telenor and Malaysia's Axiata Group announced on May 6 that they are in the final stretch of talks to merge. A deal would create a customer base of some 300 million in nine countries across emerging Asia and beyond.
