hooi: grab is very focused on southeast asia. uber no longer operate in southeast asia.mily: do you have no plan to expand beyond the southeast asia? hooi: it's important to understand southeast asia is a huge market. it is the third largest population in the world. it is larger than the america and the eu. we are moving into a platform play to become a super app or southeast asia. emily: what are issues that you and/or are working through? give me some examples -- you and dora are working through? -- dara are working through. aoi: he has been like shareholder and great at it. he has been able to become a business partner and sitting on both sides, he gets to share what has worked in uber and what has not while he learns from my experiences as well. emily: you mentioned grab is starting to address the fact that a grab driver was stripped and robbed. what are you doing to better protect drivers? hooi: we're doing a lot. these instances make us sad because we know there is so much more than we can do, not just for passengers, but for drivers as well. some of the recent thi

tonight i want to speak to you of peace in vietnam and southeast asia. no other question so preoccupies our people. no other dream so absorbs the 250 million human human beings who live in that part of the world. no other goal motivates american policy in southeast ais that. -- asia. for years representatives of our governments and others have traveled the world. seeking to find the basis for peace talks. since last september they have carried the offer that i made public in san antonio. and that offer was this, that the united states would stop its bombardment of north vietnam when that would lead promptly to productive discussions. and then we would assume that north vietnam would not take military advantage of our restraint. i denounced the offer privately and publicly. even while the search for peace was going on, north vietnam rushed their preparations for a savage assault on the people, the government, and the allies of south vietnam. their attack during the ted holidays failed to achieve its principle objective. it did not collapse the elected gove

hooi: grab is very focused on southeast asia. uber no longer operate in southeast asia.so you have no plans to expand beyond the southeast asia? hooi: it's important to understand southeast asia is a huge market. with tons of opportunities. population wise, the third-largest in the world. it is larger than north america and the eu. there is a con of growth opportunities which is why we are moving into a platform play to become a super app or southeast asia. emily: what are issues that you and dara are working through. give me an example of the future challenges. what we are doing is like he is a board member and other shareholders, and he is great at. he has been able to become a business partner and sitting on both sides, he gets to share what has worked in uber and what has not while he learns from my experiences as well. emily: you mentioned grab is -- was started to address safety, and a grab driver was stripped and robbed. in what was a harrowing, 12 hour ordeal. what are you doing to better protect drivers? hooi: we're doing a lot. these incidents make us extremely

southeast asia is where the preponderance of our customers are. big spot for us. asia is growing quickly. we see very good growth rates coming out of europe and north america. that to be an increasing piece of the portfolio. inventory should be way higher than where you are right now. what are you doing about this? >> china is a huge market. only 8.7% of people in china have passports. when we look at people coming into our core markets from china, it is a big number already. >> it is difficult because china is a very complicated and competitive market. there are many successful players there. demands ae customer certain level of excellence that it is challenging to deliver. if you look at something like payments, much of the rest of the world is still living with basic credit card payments. china, where different payment methods have become not just commonplace, but almost universally accepted. make sure there is no friction around offering those payment options. there are many particularities to that market that are hard to get right. our team has done a great jo

how i would still have plenty a shot was across southeast asia and famine the wet weather still sliding its way across the philippines towards southern parts of india china pushing up to two wards and the peninsula but a little farther north bank culp will see some showers from time to time and i shall see if anything.

how do you see that. >> within southeast asia that we can fly to southeast asia. we don't have the air rights to fly within southeast asia. >> or to your point, the technologies are introducing here in north america. it will be 110 seaplane. the be one of the nicest domestic aircraft. it's going to be a great upgrading from marcus at a smaller regional jets. most of what we are doing in our business is taking more customers, larger aircraft, building larger airports of larger technologies to create workflow for customers not downsizing. >> so, that the mention. you had said that she liked to see a launch customer for boeing 797, which is the midrange jet. is that still the case? to access whether it would fit in? >> we are not in a position to be making those types of decisions for the board has even made the decision to build the aircraft yet. it's still in discussion phase. we need a successor aircraft as well as seven by seven. the majority of those paragraphs will be retiring in the next decade and we would like new technologies as they been very successful to

we went undercover on a wildlife smuggling trail stretching from madagascar off the southeast coast of africa across asia to malaysia on the trail of a man known as the pablo escobar of reptile smuggling or global wildlife trafficking is estimated to be worth billions of dollars every year almost as lucrative as the trade and illegal drugs and arms a key destination for wildlife trafficking madagascar over ninety percent of the country's animals aren't found anywhere else making them a prize catch for smugglers including anson wong the man nicknamed the lizard king were jailed after a sting operation in one thousand nine hundred eight he was soon back in business before being arrested again in malaysia and two thousand and ten at an al-jazeera and best again. that those arrests and subsequent convictions did not put an end to his smuggling korea from the want to want. his return off. in all his years of trying to get there is one place the lizard king has always returned to. valley bay lies in a remote corner of madagascar off the southeast coast of africa. it's home to the ploughshare the world's rarest

southeast asia, africa, central america, the persian gulf, and the middle east. the withdrawal of soviet troops from afghanistan, of course, represents an historic step in itself, one that the general secretary and i agreed could serve as a model for settling other regional conflicts. a key part of my agenda for this moscow summit, as for my previous meetings with the general secretary, involved human rights. recently, the soviets have begun to show somewhat more respect for human rights. in the past year, for example, they have released some 300 political detainees from detention. it's my hope that what took place in my moscow visit will lead to still greater individual freedom for the peoples of the soviet union. you see, in addition to my meetings with mr. gorbachev, i held other meetings with monks at a monastery in moscow, with monastery in moscow, with nearly 100 dissidents and refuseniks, men and women who worked for years and freedom to speak, to assemble and to travel. at moscow university with students, indeed with the very students likely to become the

affecting northern parts of vietnam at this stage joining up with the showers that we have into southeast asia some big a largish as so very much on the cards across a good part of the region you can see have a run their way over towards the gulf of thailand southern positon of the particulars seeing some more very heavy showers in place and little drier of tools more than parts of tata but you can see it stays very just just around bangkok southwards shallowest well they join up with the wet weather that we have across the adamancy pushing across the by of bengal while big showers just feeding their way into the northeast of india into bangladesh more heavy showers right on the west and gas in the showers now of course also affecting southern parts of pakistan as that wet weather as you go on through thursday pushing into friday the heavy showers continue across the central plains further north a little more cloud coming in but last the try for many. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. the story of a friendship between a filmmaker and this thirteen year old girl would mean. giving to her

how this can spiral into other coordination with other countries especially in the region in southeast asia where infrastructure continues to lag behind barbara to really get outside the hospital there in chiang rajan the thank you. u.s. president donald trump says meeting vladimir putin may be the easiest to parse of risk three nation the european tour this week well he's currently on his way to brussels for what looks set to be a contentious things of summits with america's traditional allies that it's on to the u.k. for his first official visit there and finally on to finland for a face to face meeting with the russian leader now he's vowed that european countries will not take advantage of the u.s. trump is accusing them again of not spending enough on the goods dado just to get their way but i think we'll work something out very far too much as a safeguard to little but we will work it out. for countries to be happy the u.k. that's the situation that resorts below. so i have to say though. i asked the u.k. which is somewhat serve or an absolute frankly maybe double fault which they wou

southeast asia and the middle east are now seeing really strong demand.es like vietnam, indonesia, bangladesh have only just begun nationwide construction of highways and ports. we see business opportunity in places like hong kong and singapore, which have large populations, but limited space. they are desperate for land. we have over 500 large projects on the go all over the world. we are very excited about the prospects of our business. >> we know singapore is in the process of a significant land reflation project. are you involved in that? how significant is that as an opportunity for your company? >> singapore already completed several lanark relation projects. we are now working on a -- several land reclamation projects. we are now working with the usingment on new projects our own technology. if it proves successful, we are confident we will win the full contract. in april, we signed an interview with the philippines -- we u with themo philippines. >> how would you characterize the financing environment? are you partnering with development banks? ar

development one of the things they've really latched on to is this idea of being the battery of southeast asia of using the ample hydro power potential of the country to create an opportunity for them to sell power to thailand to china even as far a fear field as malaysia but that idea has been generating more and more controversy recently because the dams that are planned along the mekong will disrupt the fish flow enormously lot of people in that part of the world depend on that for protein. and they can have environmental impact such as we we've just seen and that's meant an increasing pushback against this idea and we've even seen thailand recently pull out of one of these big projects as the thais have got more pushback from some of their civil society groups so this kind of tragedy will will only give more ammunition to those who want to go back against these kind of absolutely i mean focusing on the people that the well you know been killed or left homeless or injured when it's very hard to get an idea even of the numbers right now but what help do you think the country can expect from

you mentioned before is part of the lao government's goal of becoming the so-called battery of southeast asia by getting much needed income from the export of electricity to neighboring countries so it really wants to harness the energy all of its river system this particular dam was built on attributes of the make home river has also deming the mainstream of the mekong itself and for years environmentalists critics have warned that this is a bad plan that they want a moratorium on construction of these dance particularly the mainstream dams because of potential impacts on the environment on people's livelihoods and also safety and this of course will add to those concerns that there aren't adequate warning systems in place that the construction is happening far too quickly in some of these cases so yes this will be part of any investigation but again this is a fairly secretive state it's a communist government a one party state in laos so getting any sort of accurate information out of that country can at times be very difficult for them but we'll leave it by way of it and continue to have a

based push forward, their influences all more spirit, they are more interested in southeast asia and their broader spirit in asia. and also ironically do more positive approach so some of the stuff they put out is more saying how to underrate the government rather than know, we're great. that's what they do best which is a different disinformation about emotion. so it's different. my suspicion is that they use it more to suppress incidents , more to rally their own nationalism internally and third if they do go overseas going to be more in southeast asia though they might try to run the disinfo plan. but it's election, and other countries fall, i don't know what their interests are in the unitedstates . if they have the skills to do, language is a big factor. >> a couple questions from the floor, we have to usethis might. please, and the lineup here, highway . there are a lot of people in this room who are technologists and we've got designers, you are audio engineers, people who know how to make these deep state. >> what should these people be working on to help prepare for the futur

well right now it's rainy season or monzon season in southeast asia and especially in the disaster area and the days before there were lots of rain storms and according to one company that was participating or there was shareholder of the there was simply too much water in the reservoir and not the actually dam but. i think called settle down which can be considered or which can be imagined as a supply dam or supplants dam and this support them broke and yeah that cost the flats wave that destroyed so many villages so too much water in the dam is that so was this a problem because the dam was poorly designed all was it not finished yet. well the dam hasn't been finished of course even a mountainous dam should hold the water too so. from the from right now it seems there has been some engineering mistake or that hasn't been has been enough controls the engineers made mistakes. but this needs to be seen but that what will be clear is that this disaster will put a new spotlight on the dam issue in laos because it has been always a controversy in the country and also outs at the country the

. ♪ rishaad: southeast asia's humble tech industry may benefit gr trump's decision to levy an importtems from china. tim, one tech -- could be produced in southeast asia instead. >> you know, basically nothing that requires low cost manufacturing low or cheaper labor. that was the big strength behind china rising over the last couple of decades. with donald trump's tariffs an extra 25% it makes it a little bit more expensive. we're talking about malaysia, hailand, philippines, vietnam. thailand,, companies we don't hear a lot about very often frankly because they are not as big or sexy. they don't make apple i-phones but they are plugging away assembling products and components. there is a real chance to benefit from this. haidi: what are the actual opportunities that you see? >> well, i don't think we'll see large scale i-phone manufacturing moving to thailand but the thing to remember is in electronics beyond the famous products like apple, there are a lot of components and circuit boards and bits that g.a.o. go into a computer and electronics device, the box that powers your tv. a

ambitious plans to fund rapid growth -- >> open bracket -- [speaking chinese] >> places like southeast asiamiddle east are now seeing really strong demand. vietnam, like indonesia, and bangladesh have only just begun nationwide construction of highways, power plants, and ports. we see the biggest business opportunities in places like hong kong and singapore which have large populations, but limited space. they are desperate for land. we have 500 open projects with a total value of $15 billion. we are very excited about the prospects for our business. >> we know singapore is in the process of a significant land reclamation project. are you involved in that? how significant is that opportunity for your company? singapore has articulated several land reclamation projects. we are working with the government on new experimental projects, where we will extract mud from under the sea and use it for reclamation using our own technology. if troops successful -- if this proves successful, we will win the whole contract, we are confident. lagoon tod from a create some 500,000 square kilometers of new

programs that obama does to empower and connect young leaders across the worlds in africa and southeast asia in particular, are profoundly subversesive programs. they're basically creating a civil society in places where there can't be one through the geist of these efforts and he was promoting those val news nontraditional ways that i think what made him unique is he was u.s. president who saw people. he saw individuals in these countries. he saw young people in laos and nigeria and in ethiopia, and people felt seen by him and so that to me was -- i end the become on this hopeful not that what is the impact he has had on the lives of billions of potential e people around the world. how has he potentially changed their own conception they can change things and it's 20-34 years from now how has he inspired people in ways that, say, john kennedy inspired people in his brief time in office. so, it was a different way of promoting values. think that everybody does it -- authenticity i the most important thing i believe a political leader can have, and so no one will do it just like obama and my

southeast asia correspondent bus and they filed this report like every day is preparing his little mare western restaurant for dinner time. and like every day he knows that he's unlikely to sell out all the delicacies he's putting on display . sales for composing in business owners like those who have slowed dramatically since the coastal town of sihanoukville has been overwhelmed by chinese tourists. who come and. they come here but most most of them they go to a chinese restaurant while his last sixty to seventy percent of his revenue some of the chinese own restaurants down the street are pursing at the seams. the main attraction for chinese tourists in sihanoukville the casinos. gambling is a favorite pastime for many chinese but it's illegal in mainland china here however casinos are springing up like mushrooms. alongside luxury apartment blocks at prices ordinary composed ians could never afford. by any measure cambodia is a poor country but its economy is growing fast and largely that's due to the massive amount of chinese investment pouring in and much of that money goes into co

now to laos in southeast asia where nine thousand people are known to have died after a hydroelectricdam collapsed on monday following heavy rains the number of deaths leaves rise as riskiest continue to search for hundreds of missing villages in the flooded area thousands need shelter after the floods spectrally their homes at least seven villages were reportedly submerged the dam was still under construction when it collapsed activists are calling for renewed scrutiny of the government's plans for more hydroelectric projects i spoke earlier to correspondent frederick sure and bangkok and he told us about the hurdles facing the rescue efforts in laos the situation is very wary dangerous right now as you already said thousands of them still need to be rescued they are sitting on the roofs they are sitting on the trees a lot of people you don't even know whether actually are so a lot of work still needs to be done there are some other neighboring countries who offered help for example b.f. nam and talent they offered to send choppers also south korea are helping this is because a south

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well now it's already even in here in southeast asia stock but the rescue efforts still need to go on that there are still thousands of people who need to be rescued there are still sitting on their roofs they are still on trees there are searched with boats and helicopters slowly international help arrives today is a type seem arrived three and arrived so helpless coming in but the scenes are still quite cathartic and there are rescuers still concentrate on finding survivors instead of identifying the the death britons. now a vet now seems to be a clear sort of sequence of events took us through what happened from sunday evening when the dam was found to be damaged to where we are on the. yeah. actually that one company that was involved even says that some missed or some problems are acute on friday another company said that the damage appeared on sunday so the breach happened on monday that means that at least twenty four hours where between the first appearance of damages and the actual catastrophe so and that rates of course a lot of question why so many people are in struggle no

but then politically i still feel like the united states with southeast asia and i feel like there is a lot of room to significantly enhance between the cooperation of southeast asia than to try to approach not as an individual country but regional mindset. but you have to be opportunistic where the opportunity could emerge maybe sri lanka had an interesting election with the democratic transition if we had more time maybe we would leave in to getting more engagement on that. not only for values that china to vacuum up a huge part of the world and so you look opportunistically and try to find those places where there is a movement gaining momentum with individual countries that you might not otherwise have at the white house. >> so what about the attacks that are happening on the diplomats in cuba and china so what would that be xp mac first of all. >> and first of all with you that i do not know how the cuban government is behind those attacks. i learned about these month later it started around the transition they were trying to do anything they could to preserve their relationship

and southeast asia. example a chinese company has a similar app that is one of the largest social apps in southeast asia. tom: how many exits are you looking to pull off by 2018 jenny: over the last two years i have had six. this year there are a few overseas and domestic. and i have a few. tom: how did the beijing/washington trade tensions play into your decisions? jenny: we are watching the development very, very carefully. we need to know which direction this is going to go. i think, in the short term, we see that apple's countries will not benefit from increased trade tension. longer-term, china may come out ahead. emily: ellis capital managing partner speaking to tom mackenzie in our china venture series. we will hear from a chief legal officer on what it is like to have one of the most challenging jobs in silicon valley. "bloomberg technology" is livestreaming on twitter. be sure to follow our breaking news network on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: welcome back to the best of bloomberg techno

is the largest armed group in southeast asia that has been fighting for greater autonomy for more than forty years at least one hundred thousand filipinos died in the rebellion and millions lost their homes after many rounds of peace talks with previous administrations both sides finally reached an agreement that congress in manila has approved a lasting peace is finally a possibility. the bangsamoro basic law will establish a more substantially upon the most territory for the predominantly muslim moro people they will have their own government their own parliament and a justice system incorporating islamic law the regional government will get seventy five percent of the territories revenue and five percent of the annual revenue of the philippines however government leaders in manila will retain control over the territories police and armed forces and rebel forces will gradually be decommissioned to reduce the risk of further rebellions. implementation of the peace agreement is the most critical part disbanding and compensating more than thirty thousand fighters is expected to be compl

is the largest armed group in southeast asia that has been fighting for greater autonomy for more than forty years at least one hundred thousand filipinos died in the rebellion and millions lost their homes after many rounds of peace talks with previous administrations both sides finally reached an agreement that congress in manila has approved a lasting peace is finally a possibility the bangsamoro basic law will establish a more substantially upon the most territory for the predominantly muslim moro people they will have their own government their own parliament and the justice system incorporating islamic law the regional government will get seventy five percent of the territories revenue and five percent of the annual revenue of the philippines however government leaders in manila will retain control over the territories police and armed forces and rebel forces will gradually be decommissioned to reduce the risk of further rebellions. implementation of the peace agreement is the most critical part disbanding and compensating more than thirty thousand fighters is expected to be comp

reorientation of the complete supply chain of japan, western europe and the united states and southeast asiamillion people before you get to india around the freedom-loving countries. i think the regime in china is in deep trouble. the chinese people are some of the hardest working and best people in the world. it is this regime that has led them down this past and it's the call to personality around xi that has tried to get up in united states' race and this trade war will end in victory and what we will see is the reorientation out of the supply chain out of china. >>> white house economic adviser larry kudlow blamed chinese president xi jinping for holding up a trade deal between china and the u.s. >> so far as we know, president xi at the moment does not wish to make a deal now, i'd love to be wrong on that we are waiting for him the ball is in his court and the tit for tat business, which is nobody's favorite path, but nonetheless, they can end that this afternoon. this afternoon by providing a more satisfactory approach and essentially, jimmy, doing what the rest of the world knows nee

africa or other parts of asia are shipping it through malaysia as well as other countries in southeast asia on to destination points in terms of places where buyers are are acquiring this so malaysia still remains a problem country there has been a lot of work done by the un and others to train customs officers here and to create more of a diligence if you will to keep tabs on customs officers so that they aren't on the take however that is a challenge we understand throughout much of the world especially in southeast asia so what we're seeing is that a lot of the cultures there are trafficking their goods through these places and once authorities seize some of the shipments then that is switched to another countries some of the key countries are seeing you know the continually popping up are malaysia thailand laos vietnam and these are just some of them that are key problem cities countries if you will and steve who is driving the market. well that's a very good question it is extremely varied depending on the wildlife and the type of wildlife we're talking about if we're talking about wil

a landlocked impoverished country that embarked on an ambitious plan to become the battery of southeast asia by exporting electricity to neighboring countries this dam on the main stream of the mekong river in the south is one of at least seventy that the communist government has built has under construction or planned but for years critics have warned of impacts on the environment livelihoods and express concerns about safety is dam break shows several shows that there are there are major risks and downs that have. down designs that maybe i'm able to cope with extreme weather events such as very heavy rains that. laos is a secretive one party state and there will also be concerns about the transparency of any investigation that may be launched into this incident wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. still to come here at al-jazeera president bihari on the back for what's behind a series of defections from nigeria's ruling party. hello and welcome back as we look at the weather details across southern parts of china and through into indochina we've still got a circulation associated with what was tr

as a lot of rain around in a show at the moment but mostly it is philippines cross the southeast asia and to the north which means from borneo sas was to scotching a showers and i'm always in about a week's worth of pretty dry weather throughout java and bali insular ways occasional showers are showing up then now in the forecast we might see them in kuala lumpur or singapore with mostly more sunshine than showers the rain concentrated to the north where the monsoon is all the custom in ma and where the tropical depressions are for me into storms around the philippines and to the north but with jumping socks and winter showing itself with even more bites at least in the southeast corner throughout the gulf you've got various frontal systems at least two lives in there which means dragging active weather through person recently and showers are still just about possible but he's nineteen degrees to complain about that sixteen hour late as the rain comes in only twelve in melbourne again cold mornings but maybe i was cold as they were and tasmania itself i think will see some fairly wet

and southeast asia. example, yy, which is a chinese company, has a similar app called beagle, which is one of the largest social apps in southeast asia. tom: how many apps are you looking to pull off by 2018? jenny: over the last two years i have had six. this year it is going to be either you. -- going to be ipo. this year it there are a few overseas and domestic. and i have like, four companies. tom: how did the beijing/washington trade tensions play into your decisions? are they having an impact on the way you operate? jenny: we are watching the development very, very carefully right now. we need to know which direction this is going to go. i think that, in the short term, we feel that both countries will not benefit from increased trade tension. longer-term, china may come out ahead. emily: that was jenny lee speaking to tom mackenzie in our china venture series. coming up, we will hear from uber's chief legal officer on what it is like to have one of the most challenging jobs in silicon valley. "blo

in southeast asia, the u.s. is the single largest form of investment larger than china, japan and the european union. open amount of the indo-pacific today and it's dotted with u.s. and efforts to build self-reliant business institutions and promote private sector growth. the philippines, there was a business that helped the country return into a crucial part of the semiconductor semi chain. in malaysia general electric invested in a sales and service center, and today, 1300 employees in the country from kuala lumpur. i want them and their leaders to know that america stands ready as we always do for partners around the region, to deepen government, people to people ties based on our shared democratic values, i'll travel there in the week ahead. chevron was the first company ever branded oil expiration rights in thailand and in 1973, they discovered the first hydrocarbons in thai waters. this gave birth to a major local industry. today chevron is thailand's top natural gas and crude oil producer and investments

africa or other parts of asia are shipping it through malaysia as well as other countries in southeast asia on to destination points in terms of places where buyers are are acquiring this so malaysia still remains a problem country there has been a lot of work done by the un and others to train customs officers here and to create more of a diligence if you will to keep tabs on customs officers so that they aren't on the take however that is a challenge we understand throughout much of the world especially in southeast asia so what we're seeing is that a lot of the cultures there are trafficking their goods through these places and once authorities seize some of the shipments then that is switched to another countries some of the key countries are seeing you know the continually popping up are malaysia thailand laos vietnam and these are just some of them that are key problem cities countries if you will and steve who is driving the market. well that's a very good question it is extremely varied depending on the wildlife and the type of wildlife we're talking about if we're talking about wil

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and this week's your video takes us to singapore and southeast asia. but first to gurlitz which is packed with fascinating structures it has four thousand list of buildings in style from gothic gerena song to. god it's wasn't damaged much during the second world war but it fell into disrepair and the east german rule with many buildings slated for demolition they were speared by the collapse of east germany since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine around four in five of the small city's historic buildings have been restored to their former glory and. you can tell by the architecture that gurlitz was a wealthy place during the middle ages many successful textile manufacturers were based here. they lived and worked in timber frame towns as that loomed over arcades these typically had quite spacious interiors and courtyards they served as dwelling warehouses and counting houses rolled into one. this well known renaissance building has a facade depicting scenes from the bible like many other buildings in gurlitz it was refurbished with the help of milli

probably is already happening probably in the first instance through its neighboring countries in southeast asia particularly thailand thailand has a big stake in dam projects in laos in this one as well one of the companies involved in building this particular dam in the southeast of laos is a thai company they are involved in other projects as well so they will no doubt be involved in this operation the search and rescue operation and also trying to figure out exactly what went wrong also been speaking to some people involved in the business of constructing of designing dams and they have reacted with surprise that this particular company this south korean company which is leading the construction of this particular dam in laos they are surprised that this incident has occurred they believe the generally the south korean companies involved in the dam construction business in laos and other countries perform the duties to a very high standard so generally there has been a reaction of surprise that this has occurred so no doubt there will be further investigation going forward as to exactly what

will they divert inventory and sales to southeast asia and other parts of the world?haad: steve, i will hold you to that. we are waiting for the breakdown of june figures. -- andle, let's look at find out what is going on. here is sophie kamaruddin. aussie looking at the dollar, moving slowly on the back of the chinese export data in yuan terms. just above the 71 handle against the dollar. lookse markets take wider at how mainland markets are faring. we do have chinese stocks above 0.2% on the mainland, the csi 300. the yuan has been rebounding, since the august 2015 valuation. we are seeing stocks and hong kong gain about 0.5%. tech shares among the biggest boost. tencent on the rise along with the tea -- along with zte. the yen is on the back foot. the rupiah with a forward decline as inflows are rising. the pound is feeling weakness following trading at a low. the focus is what is going on with china. looks like a happy friday potentially so far. rishaad: thanks a lot. let's bring in our guest, ubs senior china economist, donna kwok. give us an overview of what you

not the war in southeast asia, which we never declared, but this war. so there was certainly some spontaneity around participation in the campaign, but there were attempts to try to control it. and the folks coming from the southwest, sclc spent all this money bussing them across the country, and they would pay for plane tickets home. you know, so there was only so much of that they could do, even with the massive donations they got after dr. king's death. great question. >> what happened to the to your eno movement? the goals? >> they still exist. there are still lawsuits over land grants to this day. so it starts in the 19th century. he has a vision, he grows up in sort of a pentecostal tradition and said he had visions, said that god told him to help the poor, this is the issue and this is the movement he needed to pursue. and so he ends up -- he goes to -- forr some of his property damage. one of the tactics they used was to sit in on national forest, there was a lot of federal land in northern new mexico, they burned some signs. they not really --

laos had the ambition to become something called the battery of southeast asia, meaning that the main generates through numerous power stations across the country. up to now, it has more than 40 hydropower electric stations and the ambition is by 2020, there will be something like 100. so the number is really large. and most of the power generated will be sold to thailand and to other countries. the statements that we've had from the companies who built the dam leave out any mention of the human victims, this is quite amazing to many people? yes, i thought it was quite a bizarre move by the company, actually, because the thai company ratch issued a couple of statements and they never mentioned the people who were killed or the people who were missing or the damage that was caused to the population there. they actually said that they did help evacuate people, but the scale of that we're not really sure. so the statements actually were just talking about the cause, the presumed cause of the disaster. but i know that the south korean companies also helped out with the evacuation and they