{"id":741386,"date":"2026-08-18T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741386\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:56:11","slug":"chip-boom-pushes-vietnam-philippines-closer-to-high-income-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741386\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip boom pushes Vietnam, Philippines closer to &#8216;high-income&#8217; status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Semiconductor industry seen as key to escaping middle-income trap<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260817N southeast asian flags REU\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Among the 11 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, only Singapore and Brunei are categorized as &#8220;high-income countries&#8221; by the World Bank. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>YUKI FUJITA, YUJI NITTA and TOMOYOSHI OSHIKIRI<\/p>\n<p>August 18, 2026 06:52 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">MANILA\/HANOI\/JAKARTA &#8212; The growth of the semiconductor industry in Southeast Asia has reconfigured economic development in the region, putting Vietnam and the Philippines on course toward the sought-after status of &#8220;high-income countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Semiconductor industry seen as key to escaping middle-income trap Among the 11 members of the Association of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[76634,84,56268,33323,1294,179110,10784,108809,197960,56,54,55,5673],"class_list":["post-741386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boom","tag-business","tag-chip","tag-closer","tag-economy","tag-high-income","tag-philippines","tag-pushes","tag-status","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}