Vietnam reinforces tech giant status
Ho Chi Minh City, still commonly known as Saigon, is at the heart of Vietnam’s tech revolution. Source: Wikimedia
Vietnam’s rise as a tech giant...
Asean: an economic titan but a political worm
Amnesty wants action to avoid a repeat of this year’s refugee crisis. Source: Amnesty International
While the economic prospects for the vast bulk of the...
Generals continue to divide and rule
Aung San Suu Kyi is becoming a fig leaf for the military’s ongoing political and economic dominance. Source: YouTube
International coverage of Myanmar is dominated...
China backs Hun Sen tyranny
Cambodia is fast removing any pretence that Prime Minister Hun Sen is interested in democracy, secure in the knowledge it has the backing of...
Scandals take shine off Asean’s rosy economic future
US vessels in the South China Post. Source: Wikimedia
Despite the optimism about regional economic growth, expressed in the form of the new Asean Economic Community,...
Indonesia pushes ahead with capital shift
The Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, is pushing ahead with a plan to move Indonesia’s capital to Borneo to reduce pollution and congestion in sinking...
Junta rule continues unchecked
Myanmar’s military continues to crush opposition in the war-torn country, bullying anyone who opposes its grip on power.
Unfortunately, the country's elected “leaders” remain entirely...
What China forgets to remember
Victims of earlier Sino-Vietnamese tensions. Ethnic Chinese refugees from Vietnam are confined to a dockyard camp in Hong Kong in 1979. Source: Flickr
As Beijing...
US demands war ‘debt’ from Hun Sen
South Vietnamese marines rush to leave the Cambodian town of Prey-Veng after an operation in 1970.
On the sidelines of the ill-advised US war in...
Economic titan, political worm
As the year ends, Asean has not managed to change its status as a rising economic powerhouse and a political worm.
As Asean takes tentative steps...
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EU and HRW slam Cambodia clampdown
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Cambodia should drop all charges against the opposition leader Kem Sokha (pictured) and allow exiled critics to return to...
Singapore bans PMDs from public sidewalks
Singapore’s recent ban on personal mobility devices from footpaths, while sudden and unexpected, has been generally well-received by the public and food delivery companies.
Just...
Philippines gets $500M funding from World Bank
The World Bank has committed worth $500 million to support the Philippines’ Agriculture department.
In a statement over the weekend, Agriculture Secretary William Dar said...