FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — YOU read the news feeds coming out of Vietnam, then along with the (often woeful) financial reports, South China Sea soap opera and stories of strengthening ties with Uzbekistan, you get some items that are rather more PR-oriented. One I read recently extolled Vietnam’s virtues as a fast-emerging destination for high-end MICE travellers. (MICE is the unfortunate acronym for “meetings, incentives, conferencing and exhibitions”—basically a catch-all for business fun.) Helen Clark reports in The Economist.
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ASEAN’s Tepid Response to the Vietnam-China Faceoff
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — As ASEAN wound up its annual meeting in Naypyidaw with the usual round of backslapping and handshakes, Thailand was again close to political implosion while Vietnam’s navy faced another Chinese incursion […]
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US Soldier ‘Found’ in Vietnam
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — A new documentary called Unclaimed claims to introduce the world to former Army Sergeant John Robertson, lost over Vietnam in 1968 and left behind for over four decades. Read more in The Journal.
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Xayaburi Dam Controversy Flares
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Back in December, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia had scored high praise for reaching an agreement that essentially postponed construction of the Xayaburi Dam while further studies could be undertaken into […]
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