Facing China with Quiet Pragmatism 
Pharma giants pay millions to Russian distributor entangled in corruption allegations to win cancer drug business 
Xi emerges powerful from Beijing meeting, but maybe not all-powerful The Taliban’s New War Begins at Home
An insurgency they did not expect …
Corruption
Panama removed from EU’s tax haven ‘blacklist’ a decade after the Panama Papers
Ten years after ICIJ’s investigation exposed the country as a corporate haven, regulations and checks have been put in place to deal with the reputational…
Crackdown and Controversy: The Battle Over Beach Bars and Noise in Phuket’s Bang Tao
Maya Beach Club, YUUHI Bar and others heavily leaned into high-energy nightlife
East Asia’s Youth Job Crisis Is Hiding Its Coming Labor Shortage
The plight of young workers could be a harbinger of a bleak future …
Leaked files reveal how Deloitte Cyprus helped Roman Abramovich hide $10B fortune
The sanctioned oligarch’s financial advisors in Cyprus falsified financial records in a yearslong a ploy for him to evade taxes, a new investigation by ICIJ’s…
Beyond the Bipolar Binary: The New Art of Sovereign Resilience
Hanoi and Ottawa are examples of independent partnership without dependence …