Vietnam’s ‘mini-China’ days may be numbered

Performers dance with large national flags marking an anniversary of Vietnam's communist regime in Hanoi, February 3, 2017. Photo: AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam

With so many headwinds zooming Vietnam’s way, now seems an incredibly inopportune moment for Hanoi to carry out a major political shakeup. That’s precisely the dilemma global investors faced this week as pro-market President Nguyen Xuan Phuc suddenly resigned. Government officials claim that the unparalleled purge led by Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong was […]Continue Reading

Asia’s longest-serving leader still not a statesman

Just three days before Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen jetted off to Paris for one of his first visits to France in years, Cambodian researchers discovered the remains of a  Cambodia-France Friendship Statue that had been destroyed by the genocidal Khmer Rouge in 1977. The leader’s promise to repair the statue could so easily be […]Continue Reading

Sunway iLabs announces 4th cohort of its collaboration with Japan’s JETRO

Japanese startups have access to mentorships, Sunway business units Meet more than 50 VCs, angels, entrepreneurs & corporates during M’sia vacation Sunway Innovation Labs (Sunway iLabs), the innovation arm associated with Sunway Group plus Sunway University provides selected five online companies to go through the Digital Transformation Acceleration Program organized in…Continue Reading

Marcos Jr shows the way to balance US and China

MANILA – Just weeks before Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s maiden visit to China, bilateral tensions in the South China Sea are once on the boil. China is now building up several unoccupied land features in the contested maritime area, according to recent reports citing Western officials, an apparent unprecedented move on territories it didn’t […]Continue Reading

Charles ‘The Serpent’ Sobhraj: Serial killer and conman

KATHAMANDU: Notorious French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, the titular “Serpent” of the hit Netflix drama series, was responsible for a string of murders throughout Asia. The charismatic conman, 78, was for nearly two decades serving a life sentence for killing two tourists in Kathmandu in the 1970s, before Nepal’s topContinue Reading