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  • Marcos’s Investment Fund Dilemma – Asia Sentinel

    Marcos’s Investment Fund Dilemma – Asia Sentinel

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    [ad_1] By: Viswa Nathan Oops Speculation abounds in the Philippines over President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s suspension last week (October 18) of his controversial plan to launch a sovereign wealth fund, the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF). The explanation that the president and his team have found ways to make “more improvements…specifically to the organizational structure” of…

  • Indonesia’s Blue Economy Vision – Asia Sentinel

    Indonesia’s Blue Economy Vision – Asia Sentinel

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    [ad_1] By: Ainur Rahmah Facing the increasing impact of the climate crisis and environmental damage at sea, Indonesia recently announced plans to implement what it is calling the “blue economy,” encouraging the sustainable use of marine resources to increase economic growth. The “Blue Economy Roadmap 2023-2045” defines the concept as a new engine for sustainabl……

  • Pakistan’s Permanent Terror Problem – Asia Sentinel

    Pakistan’s Permanent Terror Problem – Asia Sentinel

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    [ad_1] By: Salman Rafi Sheikh The July 30 terror attack in Pakistan’s mountainous, spectacular Khyber Pakthunkhua area, which killed 56 people and injured nearly 200 is a reminder that Pakistan’s “war on terror” is far from over and that it results from a major failure of the decades-long policy of supporting and investing in the Afghan…

  • Malaysia’s State Elections – Asia Sentinel

    Malaysia’s State Elections – Asia Sentinel

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    [ad_1] By: Dennis Ignatius State-level elections are traditionally more about local issues but the upcoming elections (in the states of Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Negeri Sembilan, Penang and Selangor) have taken on an added dimension because they have become a contest to decide who speaks for the Malay heartland, the most important political demographic in Ma……

  • Malaysia’s Flailing GLCs – Asia Sentinel

    Malaysia’s Flailing GLCs – Asia Sentinel

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    [ad_1] By: Murray Hunter Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional Bhd, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, with interests in energy, banking and finance, healthcare, industrials, information technology, media, real estate, telecommunications and utilities, earlier this month dumped a Singaporean asset, KidZania, a children’s theme park, launched back in 2016. Kazanah bought KidZania at a cost…

  • Malaysia’s Grim Islamic Future – Asia Sentinel

    Malaysia’s Grim Islamic Future – Asia Sentinel

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    [ad_1] By: Dennis Ignatius A contemporary, average Southeast Asian nation of 34 million folks with a wholesome ethnic minority of Chinese language, Indian, and indigenous groupings to go together with its 58 p.c Malay majority, Malaysia seems to be hurtling towards a sixth Century Islamic Shariah future. It’s occurring not due to overwhelming in style…

  • Kingdom of Happiness – Asia Sentinel

    Kingdom of Happiness – Asia Sentinel

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    [ad_1] By: Tsering Namgyal Fifteen years in the past, largely to puzzlement if not outright disdain, the landlocked Buddhist Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan launched what its leaders known as the Gross Nationwide Happiness (GNH) index, a substitute for the growth-oriented gross home product measure used as a growth scale by many of the world’s nations.…

  • Asia Sentinel answer to Singapore Government Demand for Correction

    Asia Sentinel answer to Singapore Government Demand for Correction

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    [ad_1] The Singapore authorities, underneath Part 11 of its “Safety from On-line Falsehoods and Manipulation Act of 2019 (POFMA), has demanded that underneath authorized obligations imposed by the powers of POFMA, Asia Sentinel publish a correction of our Might 24 story titled Killing the Hen to Scare the Monkeys. Though now we have posted the…