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Australia's GDP growth slows as exports cool
Business, Published on 08/03/2018
» SYDNEY: A slowdown in Australia's economic expansion would keep interest rates at a record low for much of this year, analysts said yesterday, as net exports weighed on growth even as consumer spending lifted.
Court closes book on Banpu dispute
Business, Published on 07/03/2018
» The Supreme Court brought a decade-long dispute to a close Tuesday, ordering Banpu Plc to pay 2.7 billion baht to Siva Nganthavee over activities that negatively affected Thai-Lao Lignite Co's (TLL's) involvement in the Lignite Hongsa coal-fired power plant project in Laos.
Xi risks scaring Asia back into Washington's orbit
News, Published on 06/03/2018
» One thing seems certain about Xi Jinping's move to establish himself as China's dictator for life: The bolder and more openly assertive foreign policy he has pursued since taking power five years ago is here to stay. The conventional wisdom is that the US, its Asian allies, and the broader international order are thus in for a rough stretch, as China demands its place in the sun. "Xi's consolidation of power," writes my Bloomberg View colleague James Stavridis, "will make China an even more formidable competitor." Less appreciated, though, is that this approach could also end badly for China, because Mr Xi may be overplaying his country's hand.
Italy vote 'mess' could deal blow to EU reform push
AFP, Published on 05/03/2018
» BRUSSELS - The EU struggled Monday to absorb the shock of a populist breakthrough in Italy amid fears that the anti-migrant blowback would threaten a post-Brexit reform drive led by France and Germany.
Chat app firm Kakao plans blockchain unit
Published on 05/03/2018
» SEOUL: Kakao Corp, South Korea's largest messaging app operator, said on Monday it is planning to establish a unit focusing on blockchain technology.
Xi power play in focus as China parliament opens
AFP, Published on 05/03/2018
» BEIJING - China's rubber-stamp parliament on Monday opened a major annual session set to expand President Xi Jinping's considerable power and clear him a path towards lifelong rule.
Turning the tide on crime in Asean
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 05/03/2018
» Ahead of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Thailand Institute of Justice's (TIJ) first High Level Conference on Sustainable Development, Crime Prevention and Safe Societies for Southeast Asia in Bangkok on Monday, UNODC executive director Yury Fedotov gave an exclusive interview to the Bangkok Post about the challenges facing Thailand and the wider region as a whole.
Putin's nuclear-tipped hybrid war
News, Peter Apps, Published on 05/03/2018
» This month marks the fourth anniversary of Russia's March 2014 annexation of Crimea, an event that shocked the world and shook European faith in the post-Cold War security order. In retrospect, it has become clear that, for Russian President Vladimir Putin, annexing the peninsula was not so much an end goal as a declaration of future intent, an early escalation in a broader and more ambitious effort that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko recently termed, with little obvious exaggeration, Russia's "World Hybrid War" on Western democracy itself.
Europe's bruised 'Queen' Merkel lives another day
AFP, Published on 04/03/2018
» BERLIN - Long dubbed the "Queen of Europe", Germany's veteran Chancellor Angela Merkel emerges as the bruised survivor of her deepest crisis to govern for what many expect will be her final term.
Italy votes in uncertain election stalked by populism
AFP, Published on 04/03/2018
» ROME: Italians vote on Sunday in one of the country's most uncertain elections ever, with far-right and populist parties expected to make major gains and Silvio Berlusconi set to play a leading role.