Vietnam
Vietnam friendship associations seek to bolster influence abroad

Hanoi intends to take advantage of its friendship networks abroad to improve its economic prospecting capabilities.

United States
NSA latest US intelligence agency to start public shift on China

After the CIA and the State Department, the Pentagon's NSA is showing that it, too, is focusing its efforts on China, as future budgets are being determined under the Intelligence Authorisation Act.

France, Saudi Arabia
Gérald Darmanin's Riyadh visit completes Macron ministers' Saudi tour

The French interior minister has yet to travel to Riyadh where he is now expected in early October. Saudi Arabia is hoping to draw on France's internal security expertise.

Belarus, Europe
Belarusian dissidents vie for access to European decision-makers

Former Belarusian presidential candidate Valery Tsepkalo is challenging the European institutions over favouritism shown to his rival Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who is based in Vilnius and supported by the Lithuanian establishment.

United States
The conservative push against the surveillance law

Afghanistan, China
New Chinese ambassador to Kabul lands strong security brief

Ukraine
Western private operators help reshape Ukraine's military industrial conglomerate

Ukroboronprom has turned to experts and consultants that have Washington's and Brussels' approval to help it restructure.

Czech Republic, Lebanon
Jihad El Annan Part II: The Czech Connection

In the second part of our series on the Lebanese entrepreneur, we look at how he has spun his web as far as the Czech Republic through a network of partners with strong ties to local defence circles.

United Kingdom
Space-obsessed British lawmaker Mark Garnier enters thermal imagery race

Having started his consultancy career for the space industry during fellow Conservative politician Boris Johnson's premiership, Garnier is moving into the promising thermal infra-red satellite imagery sector.

France, Vietnam
Contractor hits the brakes on key Franco-Vietnamese Hanoi metro project

Hanoi has yet to see the light at the end of the tunnel of its third metro line, with tough negotiations underway between a French contractor and Vietnamese partner MRB, amid growing administrative tensions.

France, Russia
Danone, Auchan, Lactalis... Agriculture Minister Patrushev tries to speed up nationalisations

Indonesia
Bell collateral victim of pre-electoral defence business wars in Indonesia

Lebanon
Jihad El Annan, once connected to pro-Hezbollah circles, supplies Lebanese intelligence

Israel, Vietnam
Rafael's Spyder proposal nixed by Vietnamese Air Force amid military procurement shifts

United Kingdom
Former GPW teams remind JS Held of their valuable clientele

Investigators at British corporate intelligence firm JS Held UK, formerly with GPW, are worried about further redundancies despite their prestigious client base.

Europe, Montenegro, Russia
Exiled oligarch Ismailov's hidden assets rekindle Russia-Montenegro tensions

Moscow has reminded Podgorica that it wants to extradite disgraced tycoon Telman Ismailov, wanted for murder and a debtor to VTB bank, itself now under Western sanctions. Despite having sought asylum in Montenegro, the oligarch has managed to maintain a business empire in Europe while keeping one foot in Russia.

United Kingdom
A year after Downing Street ouster, Liz Truss's former advisers settle into private sector roles

Jamie Hope is the latest of the former UK prime minister's former advisers during her brief premiership to embark on a new career as a private consultant.

United Kingdom
Schillings uses EU's GDPR data protection law against private investigation rivals

Armenia, Azerbaijan
Baku hits back at former ICC prosecutor turned Karabagh consultant's genocide accusations

France
French defence services company's takeover manoeuvring takes political turn

Russia
Atlas, encryptor-in-chief to Kremlin and intelligence services

Encryption specialist and partner of domestic intelligence Atlas is reinforcing its position as top service provider to Russian ministries.

Russia
Interior ministry, FSB and Rosgvardia fight over right to access data without warrants

Russia's top security agencies are competing over a proposed legislative amendment giving investigators the right to access the electronic data of members of the public without an official warrant.

China
Global intelligence abuzz over missing Chinese foreign minister

From Europe to the US and Russia, the world's intelligence services are busy gleaning any information they can about the sudden ousting of China's foreign minister in a case that has multiple ramifications.

France
ISO 27001 certification infuriates would-be Cyber III suppliers

Russia
Vladislav Buzdin, a Russian master in tactical intelligence AI

France
The high stakes of DGSI big data programme delays