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