As Malaysia enters a period of political stability, its new dream is to become a regional tech hub.Investments and startups are flowing into the country, but it's still early days.Despite its last tech mega-project failing, insiders told BI they see a winning plan this time.Kean Wei Kong's hands snapped from the wheel as we hit the highway in the midday rain.His sedan, a Malaysian-made Proton S70, kept cruising on its own, flowing with the traffic snaking into Kuala Lumpur.The bespectacled 28-year-old, a former insurance salesman, was taking me for a spin of what he and two college friends were selling: ...

President Joe Biden will deliver his farewell address tonight[1], just days before President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn[2] into office. We can expect that Biden will use these last fleeting moments behind the Oval Office's Resolute Desk to tout what he deems to be his biggest successes. But I’m more interested to see which Joe Biden actually shows up. I personally believe politicians, and yes, even presidents, allow their farewell tours to stretch way too long. Will America watch the gracious man who rightly invited the new president-elect to the White House[3], a tradition that Trump broke when he lost to ...

Vladimir Putin has been accused of planning acts of "air terror" against airlines worldwide, amid mounting concerns over Russia's aggressive tactics against the West.During Donald Tusk's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw today, the Polish leader accused Moscow of orchestrating sabotage and diversion on Polish soil and beyond."All I can say, and I will not go into details, but I can confirm the validity of these fears, is that Russia has been planning acts of air terror, and not only against Poland, but against airlines all over the world," Tusk told reporters.In November, defence experts warned that Europe ...

WASHINGTON (WBTV) - President Joe Biden will address the nation Wednesday night to deliver a farewell address[1] to the American people.Biden will give his farewell address from the Oval Office at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Jan. 15. Watch him live in the video player up above.Biden was expected to talk about his administration’s accomplishments from the past four years, as well as his 50 years working in public service. It’s expected to be Biden’s last significant opportunity to speak to the country and world before his term ends.President Biden is leaving the White House this month when former President ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had obvious effects on the North Caucasus. For example, reports indicate that Chechen forces have taken part in the fighting from the early days of the war and are now engaged near Kursk. Furthermore, the “Russian Special Forces University named after Vladimir Putin,” located in the city of Gudermes, was set on fire by a Ukrainian drone attack late last year. However, many of the war’s effects have not been as obvious.Please join the Kennan Institute as we host a panel discussion featuring three experts on the North Caucasus, Dr. Marat Ilyasov, Christine Le Jeune, ...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 brought the European Union and Poland closer to like-minded states in Asia, including Japan. We realised that despite different histories and cultures we share the same values regarding international politics, namely the adherence to the international law-based order established in 1945.We do not accept the concept of spheres of influence where the stronger dictate policies to smaller countries, we do not accept that might is right, that internationally agreed borders can be changed by force, or that members of the United Nations can be made to disappear. The Ramstein group created ...

Marco Rubio[1] said that both Russia and Ukraine will have to make “concessions” in order to reach the peace deal promised by Donald Trump as he offered a full-throated defense of the president-elect’s vision for America’s role around the world – and his own hawkish record on foreign policy.Rubio, Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, told the Senate foreign relations committee that the war in Ukraine had become a “stalemate” and “has to end”; that the US should show China[2] that it would pay “too high” a price for invading Taiwan; and that European countries have to stop treating US ...

Editor's Note: This is a developing story and is being updated. An oil depot in Russia's Voronezh region caught fire following multiple drone strikes, regional governor Alexander Gusev said on Jan. 15.No casualties were reported, according to Gusev[1]. The Kyiv Independent is unable to immediately verify the reports. Voronezh is located approximately 465 kilometers (289 miles) south of Moscow. The attack comes amid an uptick in Ukraine’s drone operations targeting Russian energy infrastructure. Overnight on Jan. 14, Ukraine carried out its "most massive" strike on Russian military and industrial facilities within a range of up to 1,100 kilometers (620 miles), ...

More than 11,000 troops[1] from North Korea, with possibly many more[2] to come, are fighting in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Many commentators[3] speculate that the situation worries China[4], North Korea’s nominal ally, because it could risk sullying Beijing’s reputation by association; entangle security on the Korean Peninsula—China’s doorstep—with a raging European war; and lead to North Korea conspiring with Russia behind China’s back. For those reasons, some imagine that Beijing might be convinced to throw a spanner in the works of the Moscow-Pyongyang coalition.These conjectures are misguided. Beijing is unlikely to oppose, much less do anything to stop, North Korea’s ...