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George Chen is partner and co-chair of digital practice at The Asia Group (TAG), a business and policy consulting firm, and former regional policy director for Meta/Facebook in Asia. [1]
The government of Laos has ordered online scammers to vacate a special economic zone in the northwest of the country, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported earlier this week. [2]
The US Treasury Department early Wednesday announced sanctions against four men and a group of companies allegedly linked to drug and human trafficking throughout the region. [3]
Around six months ago, Ekapop Lueangprasert, a local government official and business owner in the Sai Mai suburb of Bangkok, was checking messages sent to his Sai Mai Must Survive Facebook page – a volunteer initiative he’d set up to try and help lo... [4]
HONG KONG -- Anime producer Zhejiang Wanjia's shares rose sharply in Shanghai on Thursday, as investors took a cue from a Chinese actress's partial acquisition of the company. [5]
BEIJING -- Beijing-backed tech conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup is undeterred in its race to become a global chip titan, even after a series of setbacks in its recent overseas shopping spree. [6]
Communist-run Laos is stuck in a political rut but it has seen a physical and economic transformation since Radio Free Asia first went on air nearly three decades ago. [7]
This photo taken on May 26, 2025 shows clothes hanging on balconies of a building inside the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone along the Mekong river in the Bokeo province of Laos. (confirmed by 2 sources) [8]
George Chen is partner and co-chair of digital practice at The Asia Group (TAG), a business and policy consulting firm, and former regional policy director for Meta/Facebook in Asia.
The government of Laos has ordered online scammers to vacate a special economic zone in the northwest of the country, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported earlier this week.
The US Treasury Department early Wednesday announced sanctions against four men and a group of companies allegedly linked to drug and human trafficking throughout the region.
Around six months ago, Ekapop Lueangprasert, a local government official and business owner in the Sai Mai suburb of Bangkok, was checking messages sent to his Sai Mai Must Survive Facebook page – a volunteer initiative he’d set up to try and help lo
HONG KONG -- Anime producer Zhejiang Wanjia's shares rose sharply in Shanghai on Thursday, as investors took a cue from a Chinese actress's partial acquisition of the company.
BEIJING -- Beijing-backed tech conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup is undeterred in its race to become a global chip titan, even after a series of setbacks in its recent overseas shopping spree.
Communist-run Laos is stuck in a political rut but it has seen a physical and economic transformation since Radio Free Asia first went on air nearly three decades ago.
This photo taken on May 26, 2025 shows clothes hanging on balconies of a building inside the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone along the Mekong river in the Bokeo province of Laos.
Naw Kham, the Burmese Golden Triangle militia leader convicted of murder, kidnapping, drug smuggling and ship hijacking on the Mekong River, is still waiting for sentencing after pleading guilty to the charges three weeks ago.
Wei Yao is chief Asia-Pacific economist at Societe Generale in Hong Kong. Michelle Lam is greater China economist at the bank.