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Central-East European business model will slow growth

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EASTERN EUROPE

The concentration of big business in domestic moguls’ hands.

Hungarian mogul’s success will be linked to premier’s

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HUNGARY

A profile of Hungarian businessman Lorinc Meszaros.

Car bomb will draw attention to corruption in Malta

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MALTA

On October 16, Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist, was killed in a car bombing outside her home. Her murder has renewed concerns about law and order, democracy and press…

Global South tightens social media grip amid protests

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INT

Civil society actors routinely use social media to spread content that fuels anti-government sentiment, to organise demonstrations and to document and amplify protest actions…

Anti-graft moves will hurt banking sector in Vietnam

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VIETNAM

This was soon after further details emerged about previously reported financial scandals. The largest involves alleged embezzlement of more than VND300tn (well over USD12bn) from…

New Indonesian business task force is unlikely to work

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INDONESIA

This followed Jokowi’s adoption on October 10 of his administration’s 16th Economic Policy Package. The resultant Presidential Decree 91/2017 on the Acceleration of Business…

Investment ease will shape East Africa’s recovery

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EAST AFRICA

However, with FDI flows expected to be much reduced amid the global economic slowdown, especially for ‘riskier’ frontier or developing markets, ease of doing business is likely to…

Tech tensions tighten TikTok’s South-east Asia focus

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

TikTok’s new campaign will piggyback on the region’s robust appetite for social media, and is intended to help offset revenue the company will likely lose due to increasing…

Venezuela volatility threatens Latin American Telesur

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LATIN AMERICA

The future of Telesur.

Power problems will haunt Armenian government

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ARMENIA

In a bid to quell the protests, President Serzh Sargsyan has announced that the government will subsidise the increase until the completion of an independent audit into the…