is having an impact as far away as southeast asia. lebanon has a new government but can it fix what some are calling a zombie economy. also this week why samsung has launched a very pricey folding smartphone and the river was a sacred waterway comes under threat in the philippines. cambodia has been one of the best performing economies in the world over the past two decades but there are threats on the horizon including surprisingly the u.k.'s impending exit from the european union the german development institute a study of how breaks it affects least developed countries it found cambodians living on the brink of poverty are at risk that's if the country's government produces lose access to u.k. markets al-jazeera is way to haze in phnom penh with a look at how are people relying on the textile industry for their livelihoods are vulnerable to any external shocks. the story of cambodia is a remarkable one from the ashes of genocide and civil war this country has been for decades rebuilt and transforms on the back of foreign investment

is having an impact as far away as southeast asia. lebanon has a new government but can it fix what some are calling a zombie economy. also this week why samsung has launched a very pricey folding smartphone and live awards a sacred waterway comes under threat in the philippines. cambodia has been one of the best performing economies in the world over the past two decades but there are threats on the horizon including surprisingly the u.k.'s impending exit from the european union the german development institute a study of how breaks it affects least developed countries it found cambodians living on the brink of poverty are at risk that's if the country's government produces lose access to u.k. markets al-jazeera is way to haze in phnom penh with a look at how are people relying on the textile industry for their livelihoods are vulnerable to any external shocks. the story of cambodia is a remarkable one from the ashes of genocide and civil war this country has been for decades rebuilt and transforms on the back of foreign investment a

and is southeast asia's largest financial center. property prices are astronomic one square meter costs as much as two hundred fifty thousand u.s. dollars despite this two hundred fifty thousand people live in squalid conditions the u.n. describes as an affront to human dignity. obama. i guess the source international one is kevin knowing good morning chicago's chief of police has lashed out at just who smile at the former star of the t.v. show empire who's accused of staging an attack against himself saying it's something personal mr johnson promises more evidence the smell of his guilty of a criminal act meantime the media continues discussing the story caleb maupin looks at how they're handling the case. the police seem pretty sure that just the small that faked a hate crime against himself now his career is on the rocks and the reaction of the public has gone from in some cases disappointment and in other cases outright disgust but there's another scandal here how the media reacted to his claims to trump supporters just go huntin

new talks on the substance of peace in southeast asia can now open.partial record will show we have made steady progress toward the peace we all devoutly pray for. i deeply believe if we can only remain united in the days ahead and if we can stay together on this path, we will achieve an honorable peace in southeast asia at the earliest date it is possible to do. >> the breakthrough which came after 10 agonizing weeks of diplomatic maneuvering meant talks could get underway. it meant happily that ceremonies like the one on the east room would no longer be necessary. pres. johnson: for the final time during my presidency, this house is graced with the company of the heroes who have scaled heights known only to a very few men in this land. the courage of the bravest in war is rare and special. it knows no rank or station. generals and privates have won the medal of honor. riflemen, sailors, pilots and priests have all worn it on their breast. it has gone to every kind of man ever produced. they have come from the cities and the farms and every section o

joining me now from hanoi is our washington correspondent alexander phenomena and the southeast asia correspondent boston both have been at the summits covering it for us alexander let me start with you you were at the press conference where donald trump was speaking a summit with no agreement just how much of a setback is this for donald trump and his north korea policy. i would say it is a major setback for the u.s. president and he is north korea policy trumpets came here to hanoi with a clear expectation that a deal can be reached although the u.s. intelligence community warned him that north korea is unlikely to give it give up its nuclear weapons but the president was hoping that his personal rapport with the north korean dictator kim joke can help a rich gaps in the goshi asians and that it didn't happen and now trump had to leave empty handed handed and for him the turn of events here in the high noise amounts to a diplomatic failure and bustin turning to you north korea has also gone empty handed from this summit a lot at stake for the country once described as the most isol

euro .8% for southeast asia. 8% for southeast asia.rried about over bites signs, we talked about the currency markets. positivem, it is a correlation, about 0.4. as it pertains to the one -- yuan. longer-term strategists have pointed out, the world does not need the dollar to collapse. i would imagine the stronger currency doesn't help the case. back to you guys. >> thank you very much. someimitations of perhaps delusional moves. let's bring you more on our bloomberg school. the u.s. is asking china to keep the value stable. moveberg understands the aims to neutralize efforts to devalue currency to counter american tariffs. good morning. welcome to the show. do you think the chinese could swallow that in the negotiations? that is a key to them in this trade war. they can't match the u.s. on the trade side. they very effective when depreciate the currency. that puts them in a weak position. our guest in the previous our said in the trade war, the currency is not the thing to focus on. china is more focused on the domestic economy. does

so this and more now with just a mental has a southeast asia historian joins us now thanks very much for coming in and said the princess is a very interesting character isn't she she lived in america she was married to an american and then suddenly makes this bed for the premiership and the country how will she does it you know how been put down to get between her getting divorce one thousand nine hundred eighty i think was going back to the time and about the last twenty years she has worked all of us it charges manger is with the typical thai serendipity who'll be number one and this actually is a program. to combat drugs not not not quarterbacks and she has millions of full of the she has a big people base. but she's never been directly involved in. in politics before now she's she is as you say she has many supporters in the range of fairly has a very high profile in the country as well you know but how unprecedented is it. to make a bet like this looked so much longer while fun totally i mean it's it's taken us all a bit by surprise i think i mean on the one hand it's a kind of

the kashmir crisis campus international and travel major airlines in southeast asia forced to reboot or cancel flights to and from europe. alone welcome to do business asia want to get in berlin good to have you with us well the ongoing tension between india and pakistan in the disputed region of kashmir has also been impacting commercial airlines australian flagship carrier quantas singapore airlines were forced to revert some of their flights after pakistan closed its air space time away council to more than a dozen flights to and from europe leaving aside thousands of passengers stranded in bangkok to carry a said it would resume flights later on thursday after china granted permission to use its air space for nearly a dozen flights to europe. and was just ceded kashmir is the only border region between india and pakistan some one thousand five hundred kilometers further south is the indian state of gujarat. the home of indian prime minister narendra modi who is currently campaigning for reelection on the promise of creating thousands of new jobs and boosting the economy one of th

to go to the kashmir crisis how most international air travel major headlines in southeast asia forced to reboot all council flights to and. from new york. hello and welcome to do business asia want to get in berlin good to have you with us well the ongoing tension between india and pakistan in the disputed region of kashmir has also been impacting commercial airlines australian flagship carrier quantas and singapore airlines were forced to reroute some of their flights after pakistan closed its airspace time i always counseled more than a dozen flights to and from europe leaving assassins of passengers stranded in bangkok to carry a said it would resume flights later on thursday after china granted permission to use its air space for nearly a dozen flights to europe. and was just ceded kashmir isn't the only border region between india and pakistan someone's.

human rights watch thank you very much for speaking to us thank you for millions of people in southeast asia the mighty mikko river is the arc for your life over sixty million people who depend on the mekong in some way it flows more than four thousand kilometers through six countries on its way to the so china sea in the mekong delta most communities live right on the river banks but their way of life is increasingly under threat from a manmade problem. tatty can and is free fielding her life in the dead of the night the entire front of her house collapsed into the mekong river and with it almost everything she owned. and i now live on that in the distance from my house to the river used to be more than ten meters. and that was the bedroom a kitchen a small yard then came the water. everything collapsed into the river all of it is lost. experts say manmade over asian is causing the land in this part of the delta to sink about two centimeters per year. it's leading to dramatic scenes like this. a rotation is rapid and caused by two main factors. the construction of upstream dams and laos cam

spiky and frankly stinky in fact the jury in is so pungent is been banned from hotel rooms across southeast asia but in china people can't get enough of its soft creamy flesh this shop in shanghai specializes in jury and malaysian durians to be precise you. malaysian jury inza mainly grown in a half wild environment they maintain the most original flavor of jury and it's a real jury anita's can't resist their rich taste creamy texture and high sweetness once they've tried them. while. you're going to. but environmentalist's in malaysia are sounding alarm bells because of the fruits popularity to grow large areas of jungle clad hillside are being cleared to make more land to the fruit but you know it's coming becoming a demand especially where the chinese market is concerned so i would say that right now the evidence of all these deforestation for planting of us is in actual fact preparation to meet that demand. as well as destroying habitats for animals such as tigers deforestation also poses a flood risk as de vries dumped in the water. there must be a balance of how much we produce. and how mu

and is southeast asia's largest financial center. property prices on astronomy one square meter costs as much as two hundred fifty thousand u.s. dollars despite this two hundred fifty thousand people live in squalid conditions the u.n. describes as an affront to human dignity. obama fire. molotov . killing. people. seemed wrong. role just don't call. me old but yet to shape out this day comes to advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. my son miss doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for inconceivable long sentence in this

and the kashmir crisis disrupt international air travel with major airlines in southeast asia or through routes or cancelled flights to and from europe. welcome to d.w. business i'm joined on and berlin thank you for joining us now the u.s. economy grew in the fourth quarter at its slowest pace since the beginning of twenty eighteen indicating that the boom fueled by tax cuts and fiscal stimulus could be fading u.s. g.d.p. expanded by two point six percent in the final three months of last year down from three point four percent in the previous quarter despite the slowdown these figures still beat expectations but analysts calling it result more sluggish rate of expansion however is untested pated going forward. yes carthage joins us now from wall street to break the saul down good to see you yes there you are now those figures they weren't exactly stellar but they still beat expectations they're still better than forecast so how's that going down with investors. you know because they were a bit better than expected to market did not really lose that much here in the thursday session eve

developing this morning: president trump is headed back from southeast asia empty- handed .. after talks stalled nth korea )s nuclear when no deal could be reached .. away. the end - no doubt aint- signin disappointment for president trump. during talks -- the north korean leader suggested a willingness to dismantle his country )s nuclear program. this was their second summit. and right now there are no plans for a third. the president - now returning to the u-s amidst the fallout from yesterday )s explosive accusations by his former personal attorney michael cohen. cohen testified president trump broke the law during his time in office. that included ordering hush money payments to adult film actress stormy daniels - which hee president denies. resident left vietnam .. he addressed cohen )s testimony. in his opening statement -- cohen called the president a racist, a con man and a cheat .. who repeatedly directed him to lie. he also suggested the president knew in advance about the clinton wikileaks disclosures. cohen is due back on capitol hill today .. behind closed doors

and is southeast asia's largest financial center. property prices on astronomic one square meter costs as much as two hundred fifty thousand u.s. dollars despite this two hundred fifty thousand people live in school it conditions the u.n. describes as an affront to human dignity. obama. you know we. came here where you were before you came here when you lived. in many u.s. states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they do have given up the right to live among us some even proven innocent off two years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. am. as that violence flares at the colombia venezuela border the un security council meeting called to discuss the crisis turns into a war of words. that others join us in sanctioning those who've b

. >> i just returned from far east and southeast asia two weeks ago. >> a globe trotting journalist. a widow of a war hero from ber ma to beijing. and 1968 a executive for a global freight airline. anna has access. >> but she always operated from behind the scenes because she was a back channel operator. >> who's going to have the power to keep peace? >> and now artillery is being called in, as you can hear, very close. >> war and peace in vietnam. in 1968 that was the issue. how to end a war that had turned malignant. >> vietnam was the war that we saw in our living rooms every night. people would be watching the 6:00 news during dinner and they would see the carnage of vietnam. >> all hell has broken loose. >> 1968 was lbj's fifth year as commander in chief. it was the single deadliest year of the war. already more than 19,000 americans had died in vietnam. more than 170,000 vietnamese had died, from the north and the south. >> i think there was a momentum behind that war. so many people had died in it. it is hard for anybody to say ah let's stop it. johnson once said, you know, i

for congress, but why would we cancel tpp and give china an open hand with all of our allies in southeast asia- it is just crazy. we do not have an international president. and we need that. we need to play a role in the world and we need friends for you and we need to work with the world and we need to trust and care for allies. we are not doing that. it starts frankly, with canada. of the you mention some trade negotiations going on with china and if we are getting closer to a deal with china, is there any read through of what that means for the new nafta or the pressure on the u.s. and canada to also ratified the agreement? aes that put the u.s. and stronger position if they do come through with a trade deal with china? amb. blanchard: i do not think so. i do not think any deal with china is as imminent as something. i don't. and i do not think it will affect our new nafta at all. i really don't. i could be wrong. the thing about the president, and this is the north korean problem is, you do not want to go into a major negotiation with someone without a prearr arrangement -- free arrangemen

devastating floods swept across southeast asia tornadoes hit the south of the u.s. and california was roasted by a heat wave. since two thousand and nine one person every second has been displaced by disaster. it's predicted that by twenty fifty they'll be two hundred million environmental migrants. what the country observed is people migrate temporarily and there was a short distance internally between their countries if there's a drought or an environmental stress you move you temporarily moved but then there's trajectory protection and incentive from the reality the people coming back what we might see in the future is permanent migration and longer distance cooperation you might see whole communities having to relook right across their life records are no longer have sustainable it might be an entire nation states that have to lose. mangroves are among the most fired up. vers habitats on the planet may play a vital role in the lives of coastal communities but these forests are facing deforestation thirty five percent of the world's mangroves of already been lost

new hanoi is over and and southeast asia.rom .redit suisse you can see the terrorists out in the front of that friendship stork hotel, just iconic to say the least. this is a place where you could would like toou buy within the burgeoning capitalism of southeast asia. the china tone and the north korean tone and south korean tone is different than it was 10 years ago, isn't it? the think so, and from markets perspective, what has changed over the past year is we have moved from outright hostility relative to north korea, and even on trade wars, to a more constructive environment. i think that is what is helping emerging-market currencies do well and the recovery overall in those assets, as well. francine: let's also go to haslinda, who has been covering the historic summit for us in hanoi. we were just trying to listening to the two leaders of the free world and north korea. are youd of language expecting from the two leaders? president trump was praising the economic possibilities in north korea. how far will this flattery g

china on the industrial side, india on the services side, more and more technology coming into southeast asiaeresting and very diversified play going forward, so look for those opportunities for broad asia exposure. those are out there either in etfs or in other vehicles. >> does that look better than the u.s. markets no -- well, right now yes. the answer is yes just because they sold off by so much last year and we think there's more chop in the u.s. markets in the coming few weeks and even months. >> define chop. >> well, you had a nice rebound sis zins the december 21st lows. much further we think you'll run into resistance here. >> historical data says if january goes up the market more likely than not will go up. >> we think the market goes up over the course of the year, not by as much as emerging, but we could have kind of a gray winter, let's put it that way for the markets. this might be an opportunity to sell into rallies. >> what's the weight what's the drag? >> the weight is still the on going industrial production slowdown that's global and spilled over into the u.s. political is

if you add up carolina's trade with japan, with south korea, southeast asia, windia, russia, so forthit far exceeds china's trade with the united states. second most important is the european union as a whole, which still represents a larger share of global trade than carolina does so what you actually have happening right now is a process where in the longer term, no matter what happens in these ongoing bilateral trade negotiations, there is many players in this trade war. we're ignoring the other ones. what is happening right now is that china is seeking to substitute its diplomacy on whatever imports it does get from the united states with its neighbors. if it's not going to buy as much oil and gas from america, it will get it from russia. semi conductors, components, why subject yourself to the political manipulation, even if it's justified of the trump administration's export controls if you are china when you can get those same components from japan, south korea, taiwan, which are very high-tech economy. this is what i call in the book permanent substitution, what china will do

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and is southeast asia's largest financial center. property prices are astronomic one square meter costs as much as two hundred fifty thousand u.s. dollars despite this two hundred fifty thousand people live in squalid conditions the u.n. describes as an affront to human dignity and. the liberals in america they consider themselves to be living in pedestals. the glasses and they're never wrong and they have the moral high ground and occasionally when their policies are exposed as fraudulent. and they're don't want to deal with their unmasking they bring in a max the or william kristol to beat people up there. as the violence it flares add to the colombia venezuela border the u.n. security council meets to discuss possible ways out of the crisis. cornered in the commons that the british prime minister says m.p.'s will get a vote on a no brags it or a deal to delay britain's departure if they reject a truce amazing to force plans next month. and india claims it has killed three hundred members of a terror group in pakistan controlled ka

to when they got kicked d out of china,r kicked out of indonesia, or kicked out of anywhere in southeast asia. hong kong was always this kikid of free hub. so if hong kong was now starting to kick out foreign journalists, to me that was a real turning point. >> himself a foreign correspondent, richberg recently caused a real stir with this article, in which he predicts the demise of hong kong, and not just because of the expelleded journalist. >> i think beijing runs everything in hong kong right now. there's a place over there called the liason office, which i think is the de facto power here. if i had to guess, i would think that the local hong kong government, gary lam, they probably didn't want to do anything, but they were told you have to punish the fcc for having that event. >> professor chung takes us out of the city. he wants to show us the new bridge to zhuhai and macau. for chung, it's another symbol of beijing's power and influence. the e longest sea a crossing on earth, linking t three majoror cities on the pepearl rivever d. bubuilt with chinese money.. but t professor chchung d

elsewhere around southeast asia, coming back online after the lunar new year, a healthy picture. robust gains out of singapore. also manila and jakarta as well. we still have markets across the region. china, hong kong, and vietnam remain closed for lunar new year today. more to come on bloomberg tv. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> don't consider myself a journalist. nobody also consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i had a day job. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? >> thank you for sending over these. and thank you for this. how come you are not wearing any? >> i am embarrassed, i will be honest with you. >> thank you very much. these are going to make me run faster. >> jumped a little higher and feel more secure. let's talk about your company you started. under armour. so many great athletes you have sponsored. take stefon curry. you pay him money to wear your shoes and he likes them. if he comes over to your house, does he let you win because you are paying him a lot of money every year. >> i woul

couldn't just turn away from just because i didn't have a few million dollars in the end one of southeast asia's biggest media financial crepes got in touch and told me that they wanted to speak to us and what would be interested in buying salvias story. in february twenty fifth deen a deal was done xavier was promised two million dollars by the media conglomerate andrew castle broome left with a copy of the data a few days later she published her first story heist of this century. four months later xavier was jailed in thailand on a charge of attempted blackmail against petro saudi it was a terrible shock and there were some very very terrifying pictures i mean he is surrounded by heavily armed guards he was in handcuffs he was being he was being paraded for the malaysian media so therefore you could see that there was conspiracy here at the highest levels. back in malaysia then prime minister knowledge of reserve was facing a leadership crisis as he tried to explain one him degrees mind boggling fifteen billion dollar debt. xavi is a wrist was the start of a relentless campaign to discredit th

couldn't just turn away from just because i didn't have a few million dollars in the end one of southeast asia's biggest media financial groups got in touch and told me that they wanted. to speak to us and what would be interested in buying salvias story. in february twenty fifth dana a deal was done xavier was promised two million dollars by the media conglomerate andrew castle brown left with a copy of the data a few days later she published her first story heist of the century. four months later xavier was jailed in thailand on a charge of attempted blackmail against petro saudi it was a terrible shock and there were some very very terrifying pictures i mean he's surrounded by heavily armed guards he was in handcuffs he was being he was being paraded for the malaysian media so therefore you could see that there was conspiracy here at the highest levels. back in malaysia then prime minister knowledge of reserve was facing a leadership crisis as he tried to explain one in degrees mind boggling fifteen billion dollar debt. xavi is a wrist was the start of a relentless campaign to discredit the f

couldn't just turn away from just because i didn't have a few million dollars in the end one of southeast asia's biggest media financial crepes got in touch and told me that they wanted to speak to us and what would be interested in buying salvias story. in february twenty fifth deen a deal was done xavier was promised two million dollars by the media conglomerate andrew castle broome left with a copy of the data a few days later she published her first story heist of the century. four months later xavier was jailed in thailand on a charge of attempted blackmail against petro saudi it was a terrible shock and there were some very very terrifying pictures i mean he is surrounded by heavily armed guards he was in handcuffs he was being he was being paraded for the malaysian media so therefore you could see that there was conspiracy here at the highest levels. back in malaysia then prime minister najib resign was facing a leadership crisis as he tried to explain one in degrees mind boggling fifteen billion dollar debt. xavi is a wrist was the start of a relentless campaign to discredit the former i

medicines are sourced in clandestine labs and other unauthorized manufacturing operations in southeast asia and elsewhere, and shipped through canada to u.s. patients, who is it exactly in canada that vets those medicines and tests those medicines and puts the seal of approval on the safety and efficacy of those medicines that are coming to u.s. patients? >> so health canada has oversight of medications that come into the country. that being domestic sales. drugs that are going domestically that are going to be used by canadians. drugs that are being transshipped through canada as other parcels will not bear the same inspection and do not have to have the same quality assurance. so ultimately, the responsible falls on the country that -- of destination. so you're relying on the country of origin to ensure that the quality assurance is in place. and then you would be relying on your customs people to pick off anything that's untoward. >> so just to kind of add to what don shared with us, a, there is no entity in canada with that responsibility. or those resources. secondly, we're currently c

joe: from an e-commerce standpoint, accessing local market consumers, we like southeast asia and southse are the markets we want to focus on. so the platform, operating in six countries, will be the focus over the near to medium term. we will have to wait and see what we do. undertaking tog do something to serve consumers outside of china, for any company. i think for us, we are going to take it one step at a time. that was joe tsai. ibm has apologized for using racially insensitive labels in an online job application. choose -- forced classificationen still ask for in brazil and south africa. , mike cagney is back with a new venture after allegations of sexual harassment. he is not the only man from the me too movement back at work. we will discuss, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: 21st century box was ordered to pay millions to bones whothe tv drama claim they were cheated out of profits. they claim that's the word includes 129 million dollars in punitive damages to deter become it from future conduct. fox filed a request to either correct or vacate the award. 2017, my cat he was ou