BN’s days of fielding a ‘songkok’ and expecting easy election wins are gone: Ismail Sabri

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Mr Ismail Sabri also said that parliament was dissolved so that the people could elect a new government. But this decision has been misunderstood by the opposition, he said.  “When parliament is dissolved, the opposition should be pleased as there were many accusations about the government’s legitimacy,” he said, accordingContinue Reading

China’s property sinkhole growing deep and wide

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Chinese real estate developers are desperate to recover from the prolonged lockdowns driven by China’s zero-Covid policy. But the slowdown in home sales is also related to the collapse of household confidence in the country’s real estate market. The mortgage boycott in China is a direct consequence of the bankruptcies of an increasing number of developers. […]Continue Reading

Turkmenistan is open for business

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Western observers are mistaken in their tendency to overlook Turkmenistan, a resource-rich, strategically consequential country that borders such key regional players as Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and has a long coastline on the Caspian Sea.  The country serves as one of the most important east-west and north-south transport and logistics hubs in Eurasia.  Oddly, neither […]Continue Reading

Asia faces economic headwinds

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While Joe Biden is trying to calm concerns about recession and Christine Lagarde is scaring markets with quantitative easing (QE), the central banks of South Korea and Japan are pleasing investors in their own way. Starting with the “Land of the Rising Sun,” despite Japan’s 2.84 trillion yen (US$19.7 billion) intervention in the foreign-exchange market in the […]Continue Reading

Party Congress next step to Xi’s one-man rule

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Opening on October 16, 2022, China’s 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is virtually certain to see general secretary Xi Jinping confirmed as China’s top leader for a third term. This will mark yet another step in China’s steady slide towards a more personalist regime centered on a single individual. In the near […]Continue Reading

Fight for truth: battling false and misleading information in Southeast Asia and beyond

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After a two-year Covid-19 hiatus, the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival will be kicking off on 27 October, in Bali, Indonesia. Over four days the festival will host dozens of events, with disinformation and misinformation being just one example of the important issues being tackled.

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Singapore-based bolttech secures Series B investment

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Funds will be used to fuel global expansion 
Startup is currently valued at approx US$1.5 billion bolttech has announced that Tokio Marine, alongside other shareholders, will lead its Series B funding round. 
In a statement, the insurtech firm said this recent investment values the startup at an up-round valuation of approximately US$1.5 billion…Continue Reading