Archive: Feb 2017



STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 28, 2017 • 2 min read

‘Bikini airline’ Vietjet’s stocks soar as company goes public

By Euan Black • Feb 28, 2017
Vietnam’s only privately owned airline, Vietjet, issued 300m shares on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange Tuesday morning. By 9:19am, the stock price had jumped from $3.95 to $4.74, valuing the low-cost airline at $1.42 billion A Vietjet crew member closes the door of a A320 airplane before departure for Bangkok at Noi Bai international airport in Hanoi. Photo: Nguyen Huy Kham/Reuters

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 27, 2017 • 11 min read

Cambodia Pay and divide

By Paul Millar • Feb 27, 2017
Islamic organisations from the Middle East are pouring money into Cambodia’s Cham Muslim communities, spreading hardline teachings and threatening to drive a wedge between the Muslim minority and their Buddhist neighbours

Feb 23, 2017 • 2 min read
Sugar

The real cost of Thailand scrapping its sugar subsidy program

Thailand is ending its sugar subsidy programme after complaints that it dragged down global sugar prices. But both rural farmers and the ruling junta could suffer from the decision
By Logan Connor • Feb 23, 2017

Feb 21, 2017 • 7 min read
Thailand

How tech reshapes ancient animist beliefs

Mass urbanisation and an increasingly interconnected world are pushing animism to embrace the 21st century
By David Hutt • Feb 21, 2017