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Ecuador picks conservative for president; Peru eyes runoff By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GONZALO SOLANOApril 12, 2021 GMT QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A conservative businessman seemed headed to Ecuador’s presidency, with voters rejecting the leftist movement started by former President Rafael Correa more than a decade ago. And in neighboring Peru, it remained unclear which of 18 presidential hopefuls would fill the two spots in a June runoff election. The South American nations held elections Sunday ...

Voters in Ecuador appear to have turned to a conservative businessman in their presidential runoff election, rebuffing a leftist movement that has held the presidency for over a decade.

Vietnams Economic Rise April 1, 2021 — Linh Nguyen, associate director at Control Risks; Dr. Le Hong Hiep, senior fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute; and the Vietnam-based economist Raymond Mallon discuss Vietnams rising role in Southeast Asia, its foreign investments, and its trade and politics. This webcast was moderated by Noel Clehane, global head of regulatory and public policy affairs at BDO. The webcast was kindly supported by BDO, the global professional service...

The business of risk management is changing. Once a matter of human intuition, it is now increasingly determined by technology and big data. Richard Fenning was the CEO of Control Risks, one of the world’s biggest specialist risk consultancies, for 14 years.  . FENNING: Risk is the calculated probability of some adverse action occurring that’s going to be to the detriment of the business. Assessing risk should be a logical calculation — a process of intellectual engineering: You put inpu...

Kathmandu [Nepal], April 4 (ANI): Nepal is set to start the second phase of its COVID-19 inoculation drive using China-made Vero Cell vaccine sans concerns over safety and approval from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Last Friday, President Joe Biden virtually met the prime ministers of Japan, India and Australia as part of the first leaders summit of an informal strategic alliance — the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad as its known. "Asia is the priority," said Angela Mancini, a partner at Control Risks, on CNBCs "Capital Connection" Monday. She explained that based on last weeks Quad meeting as well as the overall diplomacy thats happening with the current administration, the U.S. is making it v...

Alexander Werman Alexander Werman is a political and security risk analyst focusing on the Middle East and North Africa region. In his current role at Control Risks, a global specialist risk consultancy, he leads the company’s research on Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Before Control Risks, Alexander studied Arabic in Jordan and was a contributing writer for the Jordan Times newspaper. He holds a master’s degree in security policy studies from George Washington University a...

United States President Joe Biden on Friday will take part, virtually, in the first-ever meeting of leaders of the so-called “Indo-Pacific Quad” grouping – which includes the US, India, Japan and Australia. The informal partnership has long grappled with conflicting priorities, and different strategic and economic ties to China, but has been viewed by some as a bulwark against Beijing’s economic and military assertiveness in the region. The four countries first worked collectively in 20...

As many as 55 foreign investors in Myanmar expressed their concern over the recent developments unfolding in the country.

MYANMAR-POLITICS/COMPANIES (ANALYSIS, PIX):ANALYSIS-From land of promise to pariah state: Myanmar coup rattles foreign firms