Under President Joe Biden, the United States has stepped up its campaign to build out and expand its geostrategic position in the Indo-Pacific. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s recent White House visit was a significant payoff for this strategy. The visit was preceded by Japan’s announcements in December 2022 of a new security strategy, including the doubling of […]Continue Reading
Military radar failed to detect China’s spy balloon but Chinese investment in US agriculture has become a big blip on politicians’ radar screens. In Washington and state capitals, legislators seem eager to shoot this bogey down. Some of the bills they’re proposing would subject Chinese ag investment to greater scrutiny. Others would ban it outright. […]Continue Reading
JAKARTA – Driving down Jalan Sudirman through the heart of Jakarta’s neon-splashed central business district these days is an eye-opener. In many high-rise buildings, entire floors are blacked out, compelling evidence of how the Covid pandemic has changed methods of doing business. It really began some years ago, but the pandemic greatly accelerated the move by many companies towards […]Continue Reading
In a recent flight test ahead of its commercial operation scheduled in late February, China’s self-developed C919 narrow-body passenger jet ran into a problem. Chinese media reported that a C919 jet of China Eastern Airlines took off at the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport at 9:45am on February 1 and landed at the Beijing Capital International […]Continue Reading
More Chinese tourists have visited Hong Kong following the cancellation Monday of the quota system for cross-border travel and pre-departure Covid test requirements. A total of 273,000 people arrived in or departed from Hong Kong on Tuesday, compared with about 3,500 on the year-earlier day, according to the Immigration Department. The Tuesday number is about […]Continue Reading
On Monday, after the government in Beijing had expressed its displeasure over news that the US had shot a Chinese balloon out of the sky, some in China’s media took a different tack: boasting that the country produces affordable meteorological balloons of a world-class standard. Media said the concerned balloon was made by ChemChina’s Zhuzhou […]Continue Reading
China’s exports to Southeast Asia jumped by 20% in 2022, despite a year-on-year decline in China’s total exports driven by a 19% drop in exports to the US and a 17% drop in exports to the European Union. Southeast Asia’s 700 million people stand at the cusp of an economic transformation comparable to the rise […]Continue Reading
At the end of 2022, there were reports of long queues of employees in Ho Chi Minh City who had been waiting since dawn at several local offices to claim lump sum payments from their social insurance premiums. Many Vietnamese workers view their social insurance premiums as a kind of savings mechanism and are inclined to seek early access […]Continue Reading
More than six months into the Kingdom’s decriminalisation of weed in Thailand, unclear regulation and fluctuating market trends are clouding the landscape pertaining to local business owners
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With dwindling resources and manpower, the Lion City’s lion dance troupes have struggled to meet a post-Covid boom meant for traditional lion dances in an increasingly commercialised market
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