How China’s Belt & Road Initiative Impacts Climate Change Accord Chinese leader Xi Jinping launched One Belt, One Road (OBOR) in 2013, later re-translated as Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as China’s global infrastructure development strategy for historical Silk Road trading routes. Confusingly, the “belt” refers to land connections, Marco Polo’s northern routes dating from the 13th century;… Continue reading How China’s Belt & Road Initiative Impacts Climate Change Accord
The Benefits and Challenges of- he gig economy in southeast asia Jobs are not what they once used to be. The way you work is different. How you work, from where you work, and how much. You must have heard about the great resignation in the West. It demands a change in perspective in the… Continue reading The Benefits and Challenges of the Gig Economy in Southeast Asia
How EU-Vietnam Trade Pact Will Bring Mutual Benefits The European Union-Vietnam trade agreement, which became effective on August 1,2020, is historic because it’s the most comprehensive trade agreement the EU has concluded with a developing country ever. While the immediate effect of the entry into force of the trade agreement is that goods from the… Continue reading How EU-Vietnam Trade Pact Will Bring Mutual Benefits
Southeast Asia Tourism Beyond Covid-19 It has been a little more than four years since COVID-19, and it is not more relevant than now to look at tourism as the “responsible holiday or travel” season approaches us. Reportedly there have been announcements of reopening of ASEAN’s islands for tourism, but can the region afford to? The… Continue reading Southeast Asia Tourism Beyond Covid-19
