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Investor caution highlights red flags in Vietnam economy

Vietnam has a lot going for it, but its growth and attractiveness as a destination for foreign investment are not preordained.

A government worker examines chicks for signs of bird flu infection at a poultry farm in Darul Imarah in Aceh province, Indonesia, March 2, 2023.

Pneumonia, bird flu, other outbreaks prompt concerns of new contagion in Asia

Chinese President Xi Jinping reviews the honor guard during a welcome ceremony for Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Nov. 22, 2023.

Asia's communist regimes are breaking their intergenerational social contracts

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet talks to his Foreign Minister Sok Chenda Sophea as he attends the retreat session of the 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sept. 5, 2023.

Foreign ministers wield new brooms in Cambodia and Thailand

2023-11-25

A man watches smoke rising from the direction of a Myanmar military base in Lashio township, northern Shan State, Nov. 7, 2023. The Three Brotherhood Alliance’s Operation 1027 in northern Shan State has caused a contagion effect, with major gains by ethnic resistance organizations across Myanmar.

Brotherhood Alliance campaign in Shan State spawns contagion effect in Myanmar

2023-11-19

Late Chinese Premier Li Keqiang bows after delivering a state of the nation address as Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during the opening session of China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in March 2023.

China's official silence on Li Keqiang's death hides shock and fear

2023-11-16

Leaders of Association of Southeast Asian Nations with Chinese Premier Li Qiang hold hands for a customary photo before the start of the ASEAN-China Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 2023.

ASEAN’s rotating chairmanships should be scrapped for a troika system

2023-11-14

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet and his wife Pich Chanmony arrive for the gala dinner at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sept. 2023.

Cambodia’s Hun Manet goes up against the private sector

2023-11-11

A missile fired from a Myanmar junta military base seen over Lashio township, northern Shan State on Oct. 28, 2023.

Operation 1027 poses rare challenge to Myanmar junta

2023-11-10

Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan is the former chairwoman and general director of Advanced International Joint Stock Company – known as AIC – in Vietnam.

What’s behind the latest corruption trial in Hanoi?

2023-11-05

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