Vietnam’s transnational expressway investor selection to take until Aug 2020
HANOI, Oct 15, 2019, VN Express. Switching from an international to a domestic tendering process…
[Analytics] US–Japan trade and Trump’s political trophy
US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inked the US–Japan Trade Agreement…
Indonesia’s rising high net worth population is ‘opportunity for wealth managers’
JAKARTA, Oct 15, 2019, The Business Times. Strong growth is expected in Indonesia’s mass affluent…
Myanmar’s draft oil and gas bill jeopardises next bidding round
NAY PYI TAW, Oct 15, 2019, The Myanmar Times. Uncertainty and confusion over Myanmar’s proposed…
Improving services sector can help Taiwan make friends: Acer founder
TAIPEI, Oct 15, 2019, Taiwan News. Acer founder Stan Shih (施振榮) was invited as a…
North Korea promises to give footage of Pyongyang World Cup qualifier to S. Korea
SEOUL, Oct 15, 2019, Yonhap. North Korea agreed to provide South Korea with a video…
China’s pork prices surged 69.3% in Sept. due to a shortage of the meat
BEIJING, Oct 15, 2019, CNBC. Pork prices in China jumped 69.3% in September from a…
Philippine police chief quits amid narcotics scandal
MANILA, Oct 15, 2019, AFP. The Philippines’ top policeman, who leads the nation’s deadly drugs…
Indian economy doing very badly: Nobel awardee Abhijit Banerjee
NEW DELHI, Oct 15, 2019, PTI. Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who jointly won the 2019 Nobel…
[Analytics] The American crackdown on Chinese intelligence
After decades of all but ignoring large-scale Chinese intelligence operations targeting the United States, the…
Typhoon Hagibis death toll rises to 66 as hopes for missing fade
TOKYO, Oct 15, 2019, Reuters. About 138,000 households were without water while 24,000 lacked electricity,…
China’s first homegrown polar icebreaker Xuelong 2 to start its maiden voyage
SHENZHEN, Oct 15, 2019, Xinhua. China’s first domestically made polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow…