How Asian technology can get the jump on Trump
The American President is coming to this November’s APEC summit to talk trade. His Vietnamese hosts, and their Asian partners in innovation, have some additional interests.
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ASEAN Today Briefs – The State Bank of Vietnam proposed allowing vulnerable financial institutions to declare bankruptcy
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China Ltd. will continue to invest about US$1 billion in Internet development as the group extends its fintech and healthcare business to “diversified revenues,” the South China Morning Post reported, citing Jessica Tan, COO of the group.
The next big deal: Is it time for free trade in the Asia-Pacific region?
The TPP is dead. It is time for Asian governments to step up to agreeing new arrangements that will bring a new dawn of growth, opportunity and free trade.
Hary Tanoesoedibjo: Does Indonesia need its own Trump?
One of Indonesia’s richest men says he is considering throwing his hat into the ring for the next presidential election. He believes his business sense and strategic friendships could do great things for the country’s biggest problems.
Does “large-scale war” begin here? Trump’s man blasts China, pledges support for Southeast Asia
Rex Tillerson, Trump’s nominee for America’s next foreign policy chief, launched his bid for the job with explosive statements on the South China Sea that call for a block on China’s access to the disputed waters and islands.
Does Duterte’s nation need American money?
Senior American lawmakers are calling for the withdrawal of large aid packages to the Philipines in the wake of Duterte’s increasingly provocative and bloodthirsty statements on the drugs war. But as the days of the Obama administration tick away, the Filipino president is happy to bluff and wait for fairer winds.
Singapore’s big balancing act: the US vs China
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailThe waters of the China-Singapore relationship have been muddied by a recent spat, but there is no reason to think that the nation’s decades-long balancing…
Duterte and Trump “likely to get on,” but is the damage to relations already done?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailPresident Duterte and President-elect Trump are likely to get on well say high-placed sources; after all, they share the same temperament. And as both turn…
Donald Trump v China: what it means for ASEAN
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailDonald Trump talked a lot about China on the campaign trail, making relations between the two likely to be a big issue as the President-elect’s…
China is the “big winner” of Trump ditching the TPP, but what about ASEAN?
Facebook0TwitterReddit0LinkedinemailThe American President-elect says he is ditching his country’s commitment to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in favour of bilateral deals with individual nations. This is…