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Ireland hits Brexit alarm
News, Bloomberg News, Published on 19/07/2016
» The prime minister is under pressure, economists are slashing growth forecasts and companies are warning of Brexit's dire consequences. London? No, Dublin.
Ghost of the Marcos dictatorship hangs over Rodrigo Duterte
News, Bloomberg News, Published on 16/06/2016
» Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidency in a blaze of hard-line rhetoric -- an outsider who will stamp out crime and corruption. But his power base is tied to the nation's oldest political camps, including that of ex-dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Election brings unneeded change
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/05/2016
» Like Donald Trump, to whom he's often compared, the Philippines' apparent president-elect Rodrigo Duterte won over voters with a crude and bombastic persona — or, if you will, his big mouth. What the country he may soon inherit needs most, however, is a steady hand.
Frantic phone call failed to halt South China Sea territorial spat
News, Bloomberg News, Published on 24/03/2016
» Hours after reports of a confrontation between a Chinese coastguard ship and an Indonesian vessel in the South China Sea, a top Chinese diplomat called an Indonesian government official with a plea: Don't tell the media. We are friends after all.