by VF | Feb 25, 2022 | ASEAN, Asia, Health, Technology
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Serbia will also receive support from the hub in South Africa to develop messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines, the WHO says. “Those countries were vetted by a group of experts and proved that they could absorb the technology...
by VF | Dec 7, 2021 | ASEAN, Asia, Business, News, Visions
In the late 19th Century, France and Great Britain had Siam surrounded from Burma (Myanmar) to the West and French Indochina to the West (Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam). To the south was British Malaya (Malaysia). An eleven-week war with France in 1893 and considerable...
by VF | Oct 2, 2021 | ASEAN, Asia, Business, Environment, Finland, Technology
Based on the annual Fragile States Index, Finland is the most ‘sustainable’ country in the world. Singapore is the best Southeast Asian country, at 162nd place. Vietnam is positioned reasonably well, at 110th. Meanwhile, the 2020 index ranks Thailand in...
by VF | Mar 11, 2021 | ASEAN, Environment, Lifestyle, Travel
In this inviting and intimate story, reporter and cameraman Matt Davis travels around Bali and discovers an island in the midst of some serious soul...
by VF | Mar 5, 2021 | ASEAN, Business
IMF’s World Economic Outlook (October 2020) has estimated a 3.4% contraction in the 10 ASEAN economies in 2020. COVID-19 has also resulted in increased trade protectionism, particularly with regard to essential medical goods and supplies. On 13 November 2020, ASEAN...
