Malawi has profitably switched its allegiance to China from
Taiwan with a price tag of over US$350 million. In the past two
years, China has taken over road and building...
A fly-by-night Indian company registered in Hong Kong has packed
its bags and disappeared after mining diamonds and not paying
taxes for more than four years. Kasaï Oriental's Direction
Provinciale des...
The shadowy joint venture between Angola's state-owned
oil company and the nebulous China International Fund has reached
a new stumbling block in its three-year-old pursuit of a major
stake in Tanzania's...
The on-again off-again plan to renovate the railway
linking coastal Lagos to Kano in the north may formally start up this
year, but questions about the validity of any contract...
More than a year and two amendments later, progress is finally being
made on little-known China Union’s US$2.68 billion deal to redevelop
Liberia’s Bong Mines. In her apologetic New Year...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 3 |
- AFRICA
- ASIA
- BRIEFING
Cambodia: peacekeeping and trade, Indonesia: the spirit of Bandung, Malaysia: agribusiness and oil, North Korea: vanity projects and arms sales, Pakistan: smuggling and fraud, Singapore: business junket, South Korea: good intentions, Thailand: expanding ties, Vietnam: oily interests
As one of the less developed Asian countries, Cambodia’s diplomats do
not travel as much or have budgets as large as their Indian and
South Korean counterparts. Nonetheless, the Phnom...