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Vietnam corporations line up to start business with North Korea when sanctions fall
Companies from Vietnam are eager to be among the first to do business with and in North Korea should international sanctions be lifted, positioning...
Vietnam inks $21-billion aviation deals with Boeing, GE
Two Vietnamese budget airlines signed $20.9 billion worth of deals on February 27 to purchase planes from Boeing and engines from General Electric (GE)...
Second Trump-Kim meeting to be held in Vietnam on Feb 27-28
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will hold a much-anticipated second summit on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam, with...
Vietnam keen to host next Trump-Kim summit
Vietnam has expressed interest in hosting the second US-North Korea summit, while high-level officials of the two countries were confirmed to have visited Vietnam...
Kim Jong-un arrives in Singapore for meeting with Trump in Sentosa
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will hold their historic Singapore summit at the Capella Hotel on the city-state’s Sentosa...
Security headaches for Singapore ahead of Trump-Kim meeting
More than 5,000 expected reporters, hundred of security staff for each the US and North Korean delegations, and dozens of high-ranking officials turn the...
Trump-Kim date set for June 12 in Singapore
Donald Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore, the US President tweeted on May 10, calling it "a...
Thailand ready to host meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un
Thailand’s Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai on April 24 said teh country was willing to host a meeting between US President Donald Trump and North...
Thailand to host Malaysia-North Korea soccer qualifier
Thailand agreed to host an Asian Cup qualifying match between Malaysia and North Korea next month, Asia’s football governing body announced on November 1,...
Malaysia stops imports from North Korea, closes embassy in Pyongyang
Relations between former friends Malaysia and North Korea hit rock bottom in the wake of the alleged assassination of Kim Jong-un’s estranged half-brother at...
Philippines halts trade with North Korea
The Philippines, North Korea's fifth-largest source of imports, will suspend all trade with the pariah state in order to comply with a UN Security...
Kim Jong-nam murder trial goes to high court, suspects facing death
The high-profile court case on the alleged murder of North Korea’s Kim Jong-nam at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on February 13 this year has...
Malaysian soccer team in unease over upcoming game in Pyongyang
The Malaysian national football team, which is due for a qualifier game for the AFC Asian Cup 2019 with its North Korean counterpart on...
Malaysia-North Korea relations reach new freezing point
The formerly friendly relationship between Malaysia and North Korea hit a new low-point after North Korea's ambassador to Malaysia was sent packing as a...
Nerve agent killed Kim Jong-nam – Malaysia to ‘review’ ties with North Korea
A banned nerve agent classified by the United Nations as chemical weapon and weapon of mass destruction was used in the killing of Kim...
Footage shows attack on Kim Jong-nam
CCTV footage from Kuala Lumpur International Airport showing the deadly assault last week on Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un,...
Kim Jong-un’s half-brother killed at Kuala Lumpur airport
Kim Jong-nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s estranged half-brother, was killed in an apparent assassination in the morning of February 14 at Kuala Lumpur International...
The North Korean gourmet experience
The day before North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shot another few ballistic missiles over the Sea of Japan on July 19 in what, his...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...