Country Risk Rating

BMI view: The Vietnamese economy grew by 8.17% last year. Recent macroeconomic data support our view that GDP growth will remain above 8% this and next year. Industrial production... 2007-10-09

Despite ongoing calls for his resignation, amid a shareholding row involving cabinet ministers, we do not believe critics will tighten the political screws hard enough to force the... 2007-10-05

Vietnam is currently preparing a bid for a seat in the United Nations' Security Council for the 2008-09 term. Hanoi is hoping for support from its neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region.... 2007-09-11

On August 7, a Hanoi court convicted Bui Tien Dung, the former head of a state-run construction company, to 13 years in jail for bribery and gambling offences. Dung and eight other... 2007-08-09

Thailand's interim government has reopened an investigation into former-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's war on drugs, in which 2,500 individuals died, according to Jaran Pukdithanakul,... 2007-08-07

In July, army commander General Sonthi Boonyaratglin explicitly contradicted the country's prime minister, Surayud Chulanont, when he told reporters that elections may now be pushed... 2007-07-09

On June 12, Thai banks received letters from the Asset Examination Committee (AEC), established after last September's coup, ordering them to freeze US$1.5bn held by ousted prime... 2007-06-12

Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh has called for an increased integration of the ASEAN economies and China on the back of a free trade agreement signed in 2005. Lao and Chinese... 2007-06-11

Two major royalist parties have decided to merge in order to boost their chances of victory in next year's general elections. The Sangkum Jatinium Front Party and the Norodom Ranariddh... 2007-06-05

Vietnam and Laos have agreed to strengthen co-operation between the two countries' legislative bodies. Vietnam's National Assembly and Laos' Thongsing Thammavong are to organise study... 2007-05-14