Inside Southeast Asia’s Most Notorious Crime Hub
A Chinese businessman persuaded officials to establish a special economic zone in a remote part of Laos. The gamblers arrived first. Then came the drug runners, human traffickers and scammers.On today...
19 Aug 202418min
After a Deadly Student Uprising, Bangladesh Starts Over, Again
After weeks of protests and a brutal crackdown that led to several hundred deaths, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to step down and flee the country, putting an abrupt end to her ...
13 Aug 202416min
$200 Billion, Four Heirs And One Mighty Indian Empire
Gautam Adani, the controversial Indian billionaire, gathered his two sons and two nephews for a family lunch one day and asked them a bombshell question: Did they want to carve up the Adani Group’s sp...
4 Aug 202418min
Japan’s Small Businesses Have a Problem. They Don’t Know How to Raise Prices
Costs are rising in Japan and small businesses risk being squeezed into oblivion if they don’t figure out how to raise their prices. After decades of deflation, many small Japanese companies are out o...
29 Jul 202416min
K-Pop's Big Bet on Becoming Less Korean
Is K-pop even K-pop without the K? A Bloomberg analysis of song lyrics shows that for the first time, almost half of K-pop songs released this year have majority English lyrics. On today’s podcast, h...
23 Jul 202414min
Why This Nobel Prize Winner Faces Life Imprisonment in Bangladesh
Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus pioneered micro loans as a tool to fight poverty. Now prosecutors in Bangladesh have linked him and his colleagues to a dizzying number of crimes, in...
16 Jul 202415min
The Chinese Coffee Chain Beating Starbucks
China’s Luckin Coffee is the nation’s top coffee retailer, overtaking even Starbucks. That would be notable itself, but less than 4 years ago the company filed for bankruptcy, making its comeback even...
9 Jul 202415min
Why China’s Investment Bankers Are Breaking Up With Capitalism
One after another, bankers at China International Capital Corporation — China’s premier investment bank – are pledging loyalty to the Communist Party, underscoring a new reality for Wall Street-style ...
2 Jul 202415min
