Foreign Investment, Duterte Drug War Victim September 17, 2017 Add Comment FDI, Southeast Asia Edit Unlike poor, defenseless Philippine teenagers , foreign investors have successfully avoided Duterte's Philippines. Philippine strongman ... Read More
One Belt, One Baloney? PRC's Silk Road Revival Doubts Mei 14, 2017 Add Comment China, Development, South Asia, Southeast Asia Edit Over the weekend, Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted an elaborate event in Beijing concerning the PRC's idea of reviving the historica... Read More
UK Delusions of Becoming Singapore 2.0 Post-Brexit April 11, 2017 Add Comment Europe, Southeast Asia Edit By leaving the EU, the UK is making itself less --not more --like Singapore. It strikes me as very odd that the architects of Brexit--which ... Read More
Proton's End? (Malaysia's Failed Auto Nat'l Champion) Februari 22, 2017 Add Comment Southeast Asia Edit It's time to let Proton go, Mahathir Mohamad. Proton is the archetypal "infant industry" that never grew up. The pet project o... Read More
Can Singapore Land Saudi Aramco (Mother of All IPOs)? Februari 08, 2017 Add Comment Energy, Middle East, Southeast Asia Edit Make it big: Singapore competes for Saudi Aramco's $100B IPO listing. Us Southeast Asians have been closely following the possibility--h... Read More
Did Trump Finish Off Asian Export-Led Development? Februari 03, 2017 Add Comment Development, Southeast Asia, Trade Edit Is it really a whole new world? If there's any such thing as a premature call, then it's probably to label Asian export-led developm... Read More
Life at Samsung's Vietnam Factory After Galaxy Note 7 November 23, 2016 Add Comment South Korea, Southeast Asia Edit No thanks to Galaxy Note 7, it won't be a very merry Christmas in these parts. The recall of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 worldwide for i... Read More
Economic Folly: Thai Rice Subsidies Never Die November 19, 2016 Add Comment Agriculture, Southeast Asia Edit The importance of rice production to the Thai economy cannot be overstated. In the past, I have discussed [ 1 , 2 ] the current ruling junta... Read More
Duterte and the "People's Republic of the Philippines" Oktober 23, 2016 Add Comment China, Southeast Asia Edit Duterte claims the Philippines is now in the PRC's ideological flow. Take it with a whole heaping of salt. Friends abroad have asked me ... Read More
Worst Branding Deal Ever? "Trump Tower Manila" Oktober 08, 2016 Add Comment Southeast Asia Edit Is getting your private parts groped part of the deal if you buy a unit at this Trump-branded Manila condo? In psychology, there is a term ... Read More
Philippines' Duterte: Killer of Druggies...& Foreign Investment September 23, 2016 Add Comment FDI, Security, Southeast Asia Edit Damage control surpasses the realm of art into science when the person whose offensiveness you're trying to contain is the Philippine Pr... Read More
Turf & Japan Shifting Investment from PRC to SE Asia Juni 01, 2016 Add Comment China, Japan, Southeast Asia Edit Here is an interesting article concerning how geopolitical concerns affect foreign direct investment (FDI). Despite China being one of if n... Read More
The End: Thailand Dumps Yingluck-Era Rice Hoard Mei 15, 2016 Add Comment Agriculture, Southeast Asia Edit Getting rid of Thailand's massive Yingluck-era rice stockpiles. Although political polarization has been a constant feature of Thai poli... Read More
Malaysian PM Razak and the $4.2B Missing From 1MDB April 12, 2016 Add Comment Southeast Asia Edit 80,000 protesters and Razak is still there: can the international financial community oust him, though? A few months ago, I wrote about the ... Read More
Fighting PRC Illegal Fishers in Argentina, Indonesia Maret 23, 2016 Add Comment China, Latin America, Southeast Asia Edit PRC "fishing" boat headed for Davy Jones' Locker . The PRC's fisher militia strikes again, destroying goodwill as it poach... Read More