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Author: Steve Jobs in Exile | Samsung Rising | The Perfect Police State. @Spectator columnist. Covering tech, business, and reinvention. geoffreycain.substack.com
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The End of the Vietnamese Miracle - By Geoffrey Cain

The End of the Vietnamese Miracle - By Geoffrey Cain

HO CHI MINH CITY - In what was once one of Asia's most exciting emerging markets, Nguyen Van Nguyen sees only…

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What a Patent War Means for South Korea's Samsung

What a Patent War Means for South Korea's Samsung

In 1977, when South Korea was a poor but industrializing country, an American business consultant named Ira M…

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Asia's Latest Public Health Crisis? Dangerous Drivers

Asia's Latest Public Health Crisis? Dangerous Drivers

In a country once marked by genocide, even the battle-hardened police were aghast at last month's scene of ca…

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South Korean Cartoonists Cry Foul Over The Simpsons

South Korean Cartoonists Cry Foul Over The Simpsons

Sitting in his lively studio in western Seoul, veteran animator Nelson Shin is clearly proud of the fact that…

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Will Agent Orange Hurt the US-South Korea Military Alliance?

Will Agent Orange Hurt the US-South Korea Military Alliance?

For a town entangled in a national controversy, Waegwan's streets give off an eerie languor. Ask residents in…

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South Korea Cracks Down on Video Gaming Addiction

South Korea Cracks Down on Video Gaming Addiction

Ever since Yoon Hyuk-joo, a 16-year-old in Seoul, started playing the popular computer game StarCraft eight y…

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How Christmas Is (Not) Celebrated in North Korea

How Christmas Is (Not) Celebrated in North Korea

When North Korean authorities caught Jeong Young Sil helping Christians escape to China seven years ago, they…

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Misruling Cambodia

Misruling Cambodia

If schools are a reflection of society, then they show Cambodia to be a limp and defeated nation. On the firs…

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Cambodia's oil resources: Blessing or curse?

Cambodia's oil resources: Blessing or curse?

MANY countries have been afflicted by a “resource curse”. Discoveries of oil or other mineral deposits are ha…

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Back to Mao?

Back to Mao?

IT HAS BEEN a tumultuous year for China. In March, the Communist Party unexpectedly sacked one of its biggest…

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Agent of influence: The realpolitik case for compensating Vietnam

Agent of influence: The realpolitik case for compensating Vietnam

Anh Nguyen Khanh, a motorbike driver in the mountains outside Da Nang, a city in southern Vietnam, is only fi…

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Cambodia's New Intellectuals

Cambodia's New Intellectuals

In Cambodia, a young movement of intellectuals resembling those of the 1960s is quietly—and sometimes anonymo…

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